Discussing Food Security, Debt Relief, Climate Change at the G8

The charity Oxfam today accused world powers of backtracking on pledges to double aid for Africa by 2010, describing their progress as "desperately slow." Heads of State from the United States, Canada, Japan, Germany, France, Italy, the UK and Russia are holding their Group of Eight annual summit at a remote luxury resort on Japan's northernmost island. Air force jets buzz overhead, vessels patrol the seas and more than 20,000 police officers prowl the premises. G8 leaders will spend the next two days negotiating and setting priorities on international markets, security and energy matters. International activists have also assembled in Japan to monitor and pressure G8 participants. The G8 has long come under fire from those who say that the eight "most industrialized" nations have no right to create policies that manage the affairs of other countries. From Toyako, Japan, Puck Lo and Handle Kung file this report.

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