G20 must act on economy - Brown .

UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown has urged world leaders at next week's G20 summit to "take action" to reform the global banking system.

The London summit must ensure "strong growth and recovery, and particularly jobs in the world economy", he said.

He added that there must be help for the poorest countries, saying that the global downturn had pushed 100 million people into poverty.

Mr Brown was in the US, as part of a three-continent tour ahead of the G20.

Following talks with UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon in New York, Mr Brown said that at the G20 summit in London "doing nothing is no longer an option".

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