Gary Gibbon
Hu to Merkel at the G20 summit: ‘Don’t rush it!’
Watching back arrivals for the G20 dinner you can hear President Hu through an interpreter say to the German Chancellor: “Don’t rush it, otherwise it will not work.”
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Gary Gibbon
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Cameron denies G20 summit is ‘meaningless’
The Prime Minister has denied the G20 summit is “meaningless” and given his views on the student protests and waterboarding in a wide-ranging interview with Political Editor Gary Gibbon.
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Cameron pushes democracy in China speech
David Cameron has focused on the benefits of democracy in a keynote speech to Chinese students in Beijing.
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Ian Tomlinson coroner asks for judge at inquest
The coroner involved in investigating the death of Ian Tomlinson at the G20 demonstrations has requested to be excused from presiding over the forthcoming inquest, Channel 4 News learns.
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G20 pathologist faces being struck off
The General Medical Council will announce later today whether it will bar the forensic pathologist who botched the Ian Tomlinson G20 post mortem from further practice, writes Simon Israel.
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G20 pathologist suspended for three months
The forensic pathologist who botched the Ian Tomlinson G20 post mortem is to be suspended from further practice for three months by the General Medical Council (GMC).
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CPS admits Ian Tomlinson report mistakes
The CPS admits it made a mistake about locations involved in Ian Tomlinson’s death during the announcement that no charges were being brought against the officer in the case, writes Marcus Edwards.
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G20 Tomlinson pathologist accused of misconduct
The pathologist who ruled Ian Tomlinson died of a heart attack at the G20 protests is accused of misconduct in four other post mortems. Simon Israel was at the General Medical Council hearing.
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Jon Snow
Eight into 20 doesn't go: or will it?
There is still not the structure that rendered the G8 a success in place to provide the same service for the G20, writes Jon Snow.
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Faisal Islam
Dangers of slashing public spending
In March we ran a lengthy extract of an interview with financier Jim Rogers, who described the perceived G20 wisdom on running huge deficits to boost world growth as “ludicrous and insane”. It is one of our most downloaded videos of the year.
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Spies, wives and porcelain teapots at the G20
Big news at the G20 summit in Pittsburgh. The economics are having to take back seat to the huge news that America, Britain and France have known for ages that Iran has a second secret nuclear facility. It’s a very major announcement that has re-jigged the president’s schedule and completely altered the agenda – for…
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Faisal Islam
Volcker and Blankfein on ‘too big to fail’
Former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker and Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein on the wisdom of allowing big banks to fail.
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Too special to be snubbed?
Snub-gate has made it on board Air Force One. The row over whether or not Gordon Brown was “snubbed” by President Obama because he didn’t get a sit-down, one-on-one, meeting with him (despite repeated requests from Downing Street) has now been taken up by the White House press corps. On board the presidential plane…
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Faisal Islam
G20 ministers not harsh enough – on themselves
London, the very source of the credit storm, is an entirely appropriate host for the G20 jamborees. This weekend it was the finance ministers and central bankers who whizzed through the City and the Treasury. I wonder if any of their chauffeurs took a detour past the offices of AIG-FP in Mayfair, home to what…
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Faisal Islam
Should banks’ growth be stopped?
Size does matter to the G20 finance ministers. We know this in relation to the extent of the recovery. Some feel recovery has bedded down sufficiently to allow talk of ‘exit strategies’ from the extraordinary stimulus seen around the world. Others, including the chancellor, fear that “the biggest single risk to recovery is that people…
