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The leaders are all round the table and Mr Brown's new-found confidence has show no signs of abating: he says that he not only wants a new global agreement on the markets and regulation but thinks this is a good time to push for a trade agreement, after the failure of the Doha round.

In a separate room the foreign ministers are meeting and their main topic will be whether to resume talks about a new partnership and co-operation agreement with Russia. The talks were called off after the war with Georgia.

The UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband tells me on his way in that the should get under way first and in "due course" address this issue. Most of his colleagues may be keen on getting the ball rolling now. But Mr Miliband may be interested to hear that, according to Georgian officials, the talks in Geneva have collapsed. The Russians did not turn up for the opening session, they say.

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