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Riot police have surrounded a building in Soho, central London, ahead of planned protests against the G8 summit.
More than 100 officers are in a standoff at a reported squat in Beak Street occupied by anti-G8 protesters.
A group StopG8 has planned a "Carnival Against Capitalism" ahead of the summit of world leaders in Northern Ireland next week.
BBC London 94.9 reporter Anna O'Neill said some scuffles had broken out between the police and protesters.
Police liaison officers have told people occupying the building in Beak Street that they will be removed and searched. They will then be held while the building itself is searched.
Businesses including hedge funds and banks in central London are understood to have warned staff to take precautions after similar protests in recent years led to violent clashes with police.
Ed McClaran tweeted: "Big G8 protest outside our offices today.
"People chaining themselves to railings. Why they are in the West End and not the City, I don't know."
The leaders of the world's eight wealthiest countries, including Russian president Vladimir Putin and German chancellor Angela Merkel, are due to meet at the luxury Lough Erne resort in Co Fermanagh for the two-day conference next week
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