Summit pledge to 'restore growth'

Global leaders at the G20 financial summit in Washington have pledged to work together to restore global growth.

They said they were determined to work together to achieve "needed reforms" in the world's financial systems.

Britain's Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, said the agreements reached by leaders were "historic".

US President George W Bush said that finance ministers would now work on detailed reform proposals, and then report back.

The meeting brought together leading industrial powers, such as the US, Japan and Germany, and also emerging market countries such as China, India, Argentina, Brazil and others - representing 85% of the world economy.