World leaders gather in Brisbane for G20 summit

QUEENSLAND, Nov 14 (agencies):  World leaders are arriving in Australia for this weekend's G20 summit in the Queensland city of Brisbane.
The two-day summit, attended by the US, Chinese and Russian leaders among others, will focus on promoting growth.
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said leaders would discuss job creation, identifying tax cheats and strengthening the global economy.
Tensions with Russia over Ukraine will also draw attention, while campaigners want climate change on the agenda.
In Brisbane, local government workers have been given a day off because of the number of travel restrictions in place. Thirteen world leaders are due to arrive in the city on Friday.
Some 6,000 police will be deployed to maintain security. Twenty-seven different groups have been given permits to protest at designated areas, with thousands of people expected over the weekend. British Prime Minister David Cameron has outlined new measures to tackle jihadists who fight abroad, in an address to the Australian parliament.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called for closer tripartite defence ties with the US and Australia, and urged "tangible steps taken in the area of security and defence cooperation" with Canberra, in a piece for the Australian Financial Review.
Australia has emphasised that the summit will concentrate on the economy.
"Six years ago, the impacts of the global financial crisis reverberated throughout the world. While those crisis years are behind us, we still struggle with its legacy of debt and joblessness," Mr Abbott wrote in an article ahead of the summit.
"The challenge for G20 leaders is clear - to lift growth, boost jobs and strengthen financial resilience. We need to encourage demand to ward off the deflation that threatens the major economies of Europe."
Leaders are expected to expand on plans agreed in February at the G20 finance ministers' meeting to boost global economic growth by 2% in five years.
"To achieve this goal, G20 members have identified almost 1,000 new measures in their domestic growth strategies," Mr Abbott wrote.