Anti-US protesters try to storm Asian meeting

Hundreds of anti-US protesters today broke through a protective police cordon and marched to the entrance of a convention centre in Kuala Lumpur where US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was meeting with other foreign ministers.

The protesters, mostly members of Malaysia’s ruling coalition and led by the prime minister’s son in law, raised their fists and chanted slogans against Washington’s backing of Israel in the Lebanon conflict.