What did Genoa achieve?

Officers responsible for a protester's death may be charged

One protester is shot dead by security forces, as violent 'anarchists' are roundly condemned by the organisers of the Genoa G8 summit.

And the summiteers agenda of global trade and the environment is overshadowed by the furious attempts by demonstrators to breach the security cordon.

Carlo Giuliani died after being shot and then run over by a police vehicle

What did the world leaders - and the protestors, violent and non-violent, achieve?

Because of the trouble, the political leaders retreat further into guarded seclusion - and so increase the impression that they are a remote and aloof elite.

The politicians insist that progress has been made - there is a pledge by world leaders to spread the benefits of the global economy to the poor.

But whatever the gloss put on the past three days, it is the death and destruction that grab the headlines. Peaceful protest can be and is ignored.

Many are asking whether it is all worth it. What is the G8 for? It seems at times the main purpose of the G8 is to debate the future of the G8.

Could the proceedings have been structured to promise less and achieve more?

We spoke to Jonathan Faull, official spokesman for the European Commission, about how far international summitry has developed.

We also brought together Alison Marshall, of the World Development Movement, Paul Horsman of Greenpeace and Adrian Lovett of Drop the Debt to discuss whether the summit had made any progress on their particular concerns.

Click on the links above left to hear these interviews and a feature: on the disruption caused to the citizens of Genoa by the summit - as recorded in an audio diary by the BBC's Jennifer Glasse.