NATALIE ALLEN, CNN ANCHOR: If money makes the world go around, then Prague is the center of the universe today. The Czech city that once rusted behind communism's Iron Curtain is hosting a conference this week, one devoted to the fundamentals of global capitalism. The World Bank and International Monetary Fund session is drawing thousands of people in business suits, but also a band of young people who say they're in Prague to speak for the have-nots. CNN's Walter Rodgers joins us from the Czech Republic, where it is early evening -- Walt.</s>WALTER RODGERS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Those who were violent here this afternoon have another pass tomorrow at trying to besiege the meeting of the world monetary fund -- or the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. At this hour, they're in downtown Prague. They've left this area because most of the delegates have gone and they're reportedly trashing McDonald's. These are people who have tried to break repeatedly through police lines this afternoon. They have a message. Their message is they are the champions of the world's poor, and they carried that message out today here in Prague by declaring war on the Prague police force. Repeatedly, they charged police lines here and they threw cobblestones that they dug out of the streets, they thrashed the police with big sticks, and some police were even burned with Molotov cocktails that the demonstrators had thrown at the police here in the -- at the Congress Hall. At times, they were within 50 meters of the building itself -- Natalie.</s>ALLEN: Walter Rodgers in Prague, thank you, Walt.
Protests Turn Violent Outside IMF/World Bank Meeting in Prague