Gary Gibbon
The G20 leaders are now in their first session. The sun is blazing outside and the temperature should rise inside over dinner later as Russia’s President Putin has put Syria on the menu.
Gary Gibbon
Ostensibly this G20 meeting is all about world economic recovery, but Syria is at the front of most minds and there is scant agreement on what to do.
As charities urge G20 leaders to come good on pledges to fix a “broken” global tax system that hurts developing countries, the economic agenda risks being overshadowed by the war in Syria.
G20 leaders voice their concerns about a military strike on Syria, as Russia and Iran warn the US not to take action against the Assad regime.
The Metropolitan police has finally apologised – not once but four times – to the family of Ian Tomlinson, who was unlawfully killed during the London G20 protests in 2009.
Gary Gibbon
Ed Snowden’s claim that GCHQ spied on delegates at the G20 summit “is timed to create maximum embarrassment to the UK government as it hosts the G8 in Northern Ireland this week”.
Could you live on just a pound a day? 1.4 billion people subsist below the poverty line around the world. Now leading chefs are joining a global challenge to raise awareness – and cash.
Chancellor George Osborne renews his call for global action to tackle the problem of multinational companies which move their profits around to avoid tax.
PC Simon Harwood faces a misconduct panel over the death of Ian Tomlinson at the G20 protests.
Simon Harwood, the police officer cleared of killing Ian Tomlinson, is sacked after being found guilty by a disciplinary panel of gross misconduct for discreditable conduct and use of force.
The pathologist who wrongly said Ian Tomlinson, who died in the 2009 G20 protests after being pushed to the ground by a police officer, had died of a heart attack is struck off.
A GMC displinary panel finds former Home Office pathologist Dr Freddy Patel deficient, misleading and dishonest in the case of Ian Tomlinson, who died at the G20 demonstration in 2009.
A police officer accused of the manslaughter of a newspaper seller during the G20 protests says he believed the man was being deliberately obstructive when he hit him and pushed him over.
Gary Gibbon
We are in Mexico City for a trade trip on the way home from the G20 summit, writes Gary Gibbon.
Gary Gibbon
Remember when Gordon Brown was claimed to have pleaded for an Obama face-to-face and didn’t get it – he was roasted by the press and (as we discovered at Leveson) very unusually lost his temper. Well, David Cameron’s bi-laterals at this world gathering will be with the leaders of Russia and Indonesia. He’s hoping fora chat with India’s prime minister but it wouldn’t be a long one if it happened.
