Summit city prepares for more violence

Anti-capitalist demonstrators are planning another day of protests at the G8 summit in Genoa.

Yesterday violent battles with police left one of their number dead and nearly 100 hurt.

The protester, named as Carlo Giuliani, a Rome native living in Genoa, was shot by police during a day of riots.

Officers used tear gas, water cannons and truncheons to try to prevent demonstrators entering a security zone around the talks venue.

Protesters sought to disrupt the meeting between the leaders of Britain, the US, Canada, Japan, France, Germany, Italy and Russia by hurling stones and petrol bombs.

Leaders of the industrialised world arrived in Genoa to find the city divided between the heavily-guarded and eerily empty "red zone", where the conference is taking place, and the lawless streets around it, where protesters battled with police.

Throughout the day, police in heavy riot gear struggled to control missile-throwing demonstrators seeking to battle their way into the restricted red zone around the Palazzo Ducale talks venue.

Meanwhile, ordinary life for inhabitants of Genoa ground to a halt, with nothing moving in the city centre red zone except official limousines and security vehicles.

Locals were spotted only as they peered from shuttered windows at the scenes outside.