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Hamburg is on high alert as protesters plan to take advantage of the meeting being organised in a densely populated, inner city area

Clashes and arrests have already taken place in the German city with several injuries being reported.

Now, protesters are planning to use the citys landscape to stop the worlds most powerful leaders meeting without disruption.

Police will ban demonstrations within a 38 square kilometre zone from the airport to the conference centre where the leaders are meeting on July 7 and 8.

Campaigners aim to block access in and out of the summit venue which borders the densely populated Schanzenviertel district.

Delegates will likely only be able to enter the venue from the west.

Mass bike rides are planned by protestors to stop traffic and outdoor cinema screenings in the street will attempt to seriously disrupt the days proceedings.

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Protesters are used to being kettled [a police tactic used to contain crowds during demonstrations]

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Emily Laquer, a spokesperson for one march, said: Protesters are used to being kettled [a police tactic used to contain crowds during demonstrations].

At the G20, were going to turn the tables on Trump, Putin and Erdoan.

A warning has gone out to anyone attempting to get in the way of the guests of the G20.

Social Democratic party interior senator, Andy Grote, said protesters should not try anything dangerous or reckless.

He said: Security forces will see every hold-up as a major emergency, even if its just because of a harmless demonstration.

They wont stop under any circumstances.

Inside, climate change and free trade will be at the top of the agenda for Germanys Angle Merkel - just weeks after the USA refused to take part in the Paris Accord.

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German Chancellor Merkel reacts as she receives guests at the Chancellery in Berlin

Violent clashes have overshadowed the gathering in the past.

The G8 summit in Genoa ended in chaos when 200,000 demonstrators took to the streets and Italian anti-globalisation protester, Carlos Giuliani, was shot dead in 2001.

While German authorities are confident of being able to control campaigners - around 100,000 are expected to march on G20.

Jan Reinicke, of the Association of Criminal Police, said: Many of my colleagues and I find it incomprehensible that another big city has been chosen for such a gathering after the terrible events of Genoa.

Reinicke said there are growing fears there could be another Genoa.

Block G20 protesters have denied accusations they are directly target politicians.

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Nico Berg, a spokesperson for Block G20, said: Trump and co should be able to be helicoptered into the conference centre either way.

But we will make sure that his sherpas with the paperwork, the press entourage and the lunchtime catering wont be able to join them there.

Mr Reinicke said: There will be 20 delegations, each of which will need a choice of three secured routes into the centre, in case of emergency changes of plan.

The potential risk scenarios are varied and hard to predict. Of course the concern is that the violence in the inner-city areas could escalate and we end up with another Genoa.

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'We'll KETTLE Trump, Erdogan and Putin' Protestors plot violence at G20 summit in Hamburg - Express.co.uk