G20 Summit: Putin and Trump Meet as Protests Erupt (Video)

US President Donald Trump and Russia’s Vladimir Putin have met for the first time, shaking hands at the start of a G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany.

They will hold a longer meeting later, and say they want to repair ties damaged by a crises including Russia’s alleged meddling in the US election.

Climate change and trade are set to dominate as the two-day summit opens, with mass protests in the streets.
2008 (Heads of State/Heads of Government Summits) Purpose. Bring together systemically important industrialized and developing economies to discuss key issues in the global economy. 

The G20 (or G-20 or Group of Twenty) is an international forum for the governments and central bank governors from 20 major economies.

The G20 take place in Hamburg, Germany this Friday and Saturday. The summit was always likely to have been dominated by climate change, but will be even moreso since Donald Trump removed the United States from the Paris Agreement.

It will also be the first public meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin since Trump became President.