Beginning of the G20 summit: Trump and Putin's handshake, stuck in Melania and unrest. VIDEO

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Leaders of the world's twenty leading economic powers gathered in Hamburg to discuss global issues over two days. Among the main topics of discussion are the regulation of financial markets, the fight against terrorism, the fight against climate change and disease epidemics, writes “Voice of America«.

Before the start of the summit, the presidents of the United States and Russia first met each other personally and shook hands.

Video of the first meeting of Putin and Trump appeared in the blog of the German government.

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During the greeting, Trump did not pull up the interlocutor’s hands, as he usually does. Instead, he patted the Russian president below the elbow, and then stroked him on the shoulder.

It is interesting that in the official photo Putin and Trump are on opposite sides.

At the first official meeting of the heads of state of Putin and Trump also planted not close.

At the summit, Trump came from a separate entrance.

Symbolic exception: #Trump takes separate entrance to #G20 drive other incl. #Putin #Erdogan #Modi pic.twitter.com/Z0Y5PniWIU

- Michaela Kuefner (@MKuefner) July 7, 2017

The participants of the G-20 summit in Hamburg were met by barricades, overturned garbage cans and set on fire cars.

According to police, the riots began on the eve of the summit on Thursday and continued on Friday.

Some aggressively-minded protesters even managed to cut the tires of the cars of the Canadian delegation with knives and smash the windows in the consulate of Mongolia. Air force.

A spokeswoman for Melania Trump said that the first lady of the United States was unable to take part in events planned with other wives of the leaders of the G20 countries due to protests.

“The Hamburg police could not guarantee the safety of our movement,” said Stephanie Grisham.

Despite the fact that in total about 15 thousands of policemen from all 16 lands of Germany gathered in Hamburg, on the night from Thursday to Friday, the command asked for reinforcements, realizing that the situation on the streets of Hamburg could get out of control.

BREAKING: Anti-capitalist protesters have been taken to the streets of #Hamburg ahead of #G20 summit City is quickly descending into chaos. pic.twitter.com/wUwryeXS95

- Tennessee (@TEN_GOP) July 6, 2017

“We have sent a request to police forces across the country and are now waiting to hear if they can send reinforcements,” a police spokesman said.

On Friday, small groups of protesters also carried out several attacks on police cars, both empty and with crews inside. One of the cars was set on fire with an incendiary bottle.

More Hamburg #Hamburg # Hamburg pic.twitter.com/jzvXIHJjap

- Maxim Milchenko (@MMilchenko) July 7, 2017

Today, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin will hold short talks, in which, according to preliminary data, the participation of US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov was planned.

Earlier on Thursday, in his speech in Warsaw, Trump subjected to criticized Russia for its intervention in the affairs of Eastern Europe and called on the Kremlin to stop destabilizing the situation in the region.

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