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  1. #G20 outside, the protests have been a bit of a damp squib compared to yesterday. Many enjoying sunshine and wandering about.
  2. #G20 talk of clamp down on tax havens
  3. #G20 $5 trillion to ne injected into world's economies by 2010, acc to Brown.
  4. #G20 $1 trillion has been promised to the IMF and other organisations by world leaders
  5. #G20 excel: There are no signs of trouble
  6. #g20 excel: Protesters congregated as close as they could to the meeting. But police kept them 600 meters away from excel centre
  7. #g20 March passed thru City without incident so now off to Docklands
  8. #g20 excel: police say area immediately facing the excel centre may be blocked later if many more protesters arrived later in the day.
  9. #g20 excel: As of mid morning members of the public were in fact able to come within a few meters of the excel centre
  10. #G20 Excel: Security forces us to register outside the Tate & Lyle golden syrup factory. Apt place given the sugery communique to come
  11. #G20 Lots of tourists, no protesters, normal levels of police at westminster. Slow start to the demonstrations this chilly morning.
  12. #G20 Police in full riot gear line the streets around bank and bishopsgate, on guard for the possibility of violence later in the evening
  13. #G20 As city workers fight their way home through the crowds, the protesters show no signs of moving on.
  14. #G20 War demo ends at trafalgar sq and crowds disperse. Hard to guess on numbers. Demo was trouble-free. FT coverage http://bit.ly/17J5BP
  15. #G20 All quiet on the EC2 front. Most people just enjoying the soundsystems and juggling
  16. #G20 Scargill, Benn - it's as if Twitter has gone back to the 1980s.
  17. #G20 Arthur scargill tells protestors that bankers should be getting "brass handcuffs not golden handshakes".
  18. #G20 Trafalgar Square: Tony Benn says that the solution to the global financial crisis must come from the people, not from the IMF
  19. #G20 Quotes from the protest: "A lot of people were really dehydrated." Eve, 20, student. Didn't they advise bringing your own water?
  20. #G20 Quotes from the protest: " The atmosphere was very quiet. It wouldn't have been like this in Paris." Delphine, French film student