Anti-globalization activists rioted for a second night as Hamburg hosts the Group of 20 leaders, setting up street barricades, looting supermarkets and attacking police with slingshots and petrol bombs.
Police say riots were extremely violent in the early hours of Saturday in the city's Schanzenviertel neighbourhood. Hundreds of officers went into buildings to arrest rioters while being attacked with iron rods and Molotov cocktails thrown from the roofs. Thirteen activists were arrested when special units stormed one building. Some 500 people looted a supermarket in the neighbourhood as well as smaller stores. Cars were torched, street fires lit as activists built barricades with garbage cans and bikes.
In the morning, civil disobedience continued as activists from Greenpeace scaled a bridge and unfurled a banner reading "G20: End Coal."
World leaders will come together later today to tackle issues including terrorism, climate change and trade. This year's G20 host, German Chancellor Angela Merkel says the first day of meetings at the leaders summit was very difficult. She says negotiators still have a great deal of work ahead of them to formulate a passage on trade in the summit's closing communique, adding that all members need to make compromises.