Europeans protest ahead of G20 meet

Tens of thousands of demonstrators have marched through European cities to demand action on poverty, job losses and climate change ahead of a meeting of the world's 20 leading economies.In London, the British capital, about 35,000 protesters gathered on Saturday as part of an alliance of more than 100 trade unions, aid agencies, religious groups and environmental organisations to call on world leaders meeting next week to commit to reforms."Never before has such a wide coalition come together with such a clear message for world leaders," said Brendan Barber, the general secretary of the Trade Union Congress."The old ideas of unregulated free markets do not work and have brought the world's economy to near-collapse, failed to fight poverty and have done far too little to move to a low-carbon economy."