G20: Trump and Putin to meet eye to eye for first time

US President Donald Trump is to meet his Russian partner, Vladimir Putin, surprisingly at a G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany.

They have both said they need to repair ties harmed by the emergencies in Syria and Ukraine, and Russia's asserted interfering in the US race.

Environmental change and exchange are set to overwhelm as the two-day summit opens, with mass dissents in the boulevards.

Conflicts at a "Welcome to Hell" rally left 76 cops harmed.

By holding the summit in Hamburg, Germany's northern howdy tech powerhouse, Chancellor Angela Merkel is looking to demonstrate mass challenges can be endured in an open majority rule government, journalists say.

The G20, or Group of Twenty, is a summit for 19 nations, both created and creating, in addition to the EU.

The individual nations are Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, Turkey, the UK and the US.