The G20 dominates either the conference or the scenes of the streets of London.
Love and Hate says the front of the Mail as it says that Brown and Obama enjoy a very special relationship... but man dies as violence explodes on the streets.
The violence threaten to overshadow today's crucial meeting of the G20 in London's Docklands.
But Barack Obama last night defied the protests to celebrate America's 'special relationship' with Britain.
We are not all like this says the Sun whilst the Express says that
ANARCHISTS determined to bring chaos to London were thwarted by a huge police operation yesterday in which the rule of the mob was quashed.
The qualities concentrate on events on the inside,the Telegraph says that world leaders are expected to agree unprecedented restrictions to prevent bankers from receiving multi-million pound cash bonuses for speculating on the stock market.
The Guardian reports that
Gordon Brown was battling last night to prevent Franco-German brinkmanship from wrecking his hopes of an historic agreement by the G20 countries today to reshape capitalism and revive the stalled global economy.
A theme also on the front of the Independent under the headline Deal or no deal the paper says that Brown's hopes of forging a united response to the global recession at today's G20 summit were thrown into jeopardy when France and Germany demanded much tougher rules for the financial system to prevent a repeat of the crisis.
The Times leads with a different meeting that took place yesterday reporting that Russia and America have pledged to slash their nuclear stockpiles in a groundbreaking agreement in London on the eve of the G20 summit.
President Obama and President Medvedev issued a statement that promised a “fresh start” in relations that could include a legally binding arms reduction treaty by the end of the year. White House officials indicated that the number of nuclear warheads was likely to be reduced to no more than 1,500 each.
The Mirror finally leads with yesterday's other major news as a Super Puma helicopter crashed into the North sea with the loss of 16 people as it was ferrying peopel from an offshore oil platform
The Super Puma, owned by helicopter firm Bond, put out the Mayday call then vanished from radar screens just before 2pm. Weather and sea conditions had been good.
Rescue ships and aircraft raced to the crash scene 15 miles off Peterhead in north east Scotland but found only two overturned life rafts and the bodies of eight men.
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