Barack Obama hails his tenth and final G20 summit

Barack Obama has hailed the "clear, candid, direct and constructive" G20 summit which he said strengthened US-China relations.

In his tenth and final meeting, the US President said: "More than ever our economies are interconnected and we've got more work to do to keep the global economy growing.

"We have to grow wages faster, to shrink inequality faster, to give everybody a shot at opportunity and security in a changing economy.

"That should be the way forward for the G20 - to make sure the benefits of trends like globalisation and technological progress are shared broadly by more workers and families who feel the global economy isn't working for them.

"We committed all of our policy tools to create robust, inclusive growth that creates opportunity for young people and the middle class that they're working to join.

"If there's anything that the past eight years have taught us, is that the complicated challenges of the 21st Century cannot be met without coordinated and collective action", he added.