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Blaming the 'white blue-eyed'

By John Sparks

Updated on 27 March 2009

As protestors gear up for next week's G20 summit in London, we get reaction from the developing world. Was Brazil's president right to blame blue-eyed white people for the financial crisis?

There's growing anger in the developing world over the global financial crisis, after Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva told Mr Brown it was caused by "white blue eyed people".

Gordon Brown says he is still optimistic about the outcome of next week's G20 summit, but London is set to become the focus of a week of protests as world leaders meet.

The cost of securing the capital has already been put at some £19m.

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