Live 8 concerts - Message loud and clear for G8 leaders

The message beating out today from the Live 8 concerts all over the world to the leaders of the industrialised states, who will gather in Edinburgh next Wednesday, will be simply this: stop the poverty in Africa.

That message will reverberate around the G8 summit in the Scottish city as hundreds of thousands of people, maybe even the hoped million, begin the march on the venue after the Hyde Park concert.

Other cities hosting concerts include Paris, Rome, Berlin, Tokyo, Moscow and Philadelphia.