A day after government forces used weapons against demonstrators, the Yemeni Minister Hisham Sharaf tells Newshour that Islamist forces within the opposition initiated the violence.
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Yemen unrest continues
The Yemeni president says he fears a potential civil war, while the ruling party recommends a new government and constitution.
Interview with BBC Radio 5’s Up All Night programme early this morning on this week’s events in Yemen. 17:30 in.
Iona Craig reports from Yemen’s capital Sanaa, where she has witnessed appalling brutality towards anti-government protesters. On Friday, 52 people were shot dead by snipers and since then calls for President Ali Abdullah Saleh to step down have intensified. Today, the President made a defiant speech, blaming a ‘foreign plot’ for the demonstrations, but in reality his days as leader of the troubled country are now numbered.
