UK G8 Protest: Thousands set for poverty protest

Organisers of the World Can't Wait event expect 10,000 people to line the River Thames near Parliament ahead of the G8 summit in Germany next week.

Campaigners say leaders have not delivered on promises to tackle poverty made at the G8 meeting of world economic powers at Gleaneagles in 2005.

Ure described the poverty situation across the world as "obscene".

Emaciated babies

The protest has been organised by a coalition of 90 organisations aimed at reminding the G8 nations of what was agreed at Gleneagles.

Ure told BBC News website: "It's a gentle reminder that we are here again two years down the line with commitments that have not been fulfilled."

He added: "I went to Sierra Leone last year. It's one of the poorest countries to be born in. One in four children don't make it to the age of five.

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