G20: Arrests As Protesters Storm RBS Bank And Clash With Police In City Of London | UK News | Sky News

Protesters smashed windows at the RBS building and clambered inside.

Sky News crime correspondent Martin Brunt said he had seen police CCTV pictures of the demonstrators removing equipment and starting a small fire.

Police on foot backed up by a line of mounted officers lined up outside the branch as smoke bombs were thrown by a baying crowd.

Earlier, a protester hit an officer with a large pole during large-scale protests ahead of the G20 summit of world leaders.

Anger at bankers' role in the global economic downturn and frustration at slow progress in tackling climate change prompted thousands to take to the streets in the capital.

Jim Marston, Environmental Defense Fund, doesn't like Texas pushback against the global warming scam

This is getting out of hand.

The State Board of Education's decision to require the teaching of arguments against the existence of global warming makes two things clear:

There's a cadre of Texas conservatives who simply distrust science.

They're determined to force their doubts about science onto every school child in Texas.

Democrats launch push for climate change [scam] | Environment | Reuters

"Tuesday's cap and trade bill marks a triumph of fear over good sense and science and it couldn't come at a worse time because it proposes to save the planet by sacrificing the economy," said Representative Joe Barton, the senior Republican on the energy and commerce panel.

But Markey, who chairs a special committee to deal with global warming problems, countered: "We will create jobs by the millions, save money by the billions, and unleash energy investment by the trillions."