We draws diplomats of the Yemen

Medical sources said 72 people died in the three days of clashes between government troops and tribal fighters.

President Ali Abdullah Saleh said once more that he will not resign, despite mounting protests.

So far, he refused to sign a contract for the transition that would see him to resign for a Government of national unity.

The United States reiterated its call on Mr. Saleh to resign, urging all parties to accept a cease-fire.

"We continue to support the departure of President Saleh, who consistently agreed that he should resign from power and then denies systematically on these agreements", Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said to journalists in Paris.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs UK urged all British nationals to leave immediately the Yemen the fight against it degenerates.

He said his ability to provide consular assistance was limited, and airports and routes of Sanaa and other cities can be closed.

Airport of clashes

In his view of the trip, said US State Department there was "civil disorder in progress" in the country and large scale demonstrations in major cities.

It is the most intense violence since the beginning of the crisis in the Yemen there.

It follows the refusal of President Saleh signed a weekend compromise agreement, under which he would have resigned in return for an amnesty from prosecution.

Since then, opposition forces have attacked government buildings. Mr. Saleh has focused its attacks on the forces of a Chief tribal key, Sheikh Sadiq al-Ahmar.

President Saleh warned that the country could be descending into civil war. The fear of opposition it is exactly what he seeks to provoke in order to maintain his hold on power.

During this time international mediation is stalled. Neighbouring Arabic of Yemen suspended their efforts after failing to seal an agreement last weekend.

Hunters of a powerful tribal group, the Rashid, are supposed to have taken control of several public buildings in the capital Sanaa after several days of fighting Government troops.

Sana'a airport was temporarily closed on Wednesday as combatants tribes faced the Government forces.

"The State Department ordered all eligible family members of non-emergency employees of the U.S. Government and certain staff to depart from the Yemen." Citizens currently in the Yemen we should leave while commercial transportation is available. ?

UK Foreign Office advises against all travel to the Yemen since April, urging British nationals to leave the country.

Warning of the civil war

Hundreds of people were fleeing the violence in the capital, where fighting continued Thursday.

"There still sporadic artillery hits and shot in Sanaa," said Jeb Boone, Chief Editor of the Times Yemen.

"We do not know if the tribes are forcing their way in the city or if the Government forces are pushing off", he told the BBC.

Continue reading of history main Sheikh Sadiq al-Ahmar is the leader in global Rashid tribal Confederation, one of the main groups of tribal YemenHis Abdullah bin Hussein al-Ahmar - deceased father in 2007 - based brother Hamid al-Ahmar of the Islamist Islah opposition partySheikh Sadiq is a prominent businessman and member of Islah; He has repeatedly called for the resignation of Mr. Saleh another brother, Sheikh Hussein Bin Abdullah al-Ahmar, resigned the President Council governing popular in February on the shooting of President Saleh protestersLike, the Ahmars are the Zaidi Shi'a Islam branchWhile most Yemenis are Sunni Shaf'istsThe clashes began Monday after the relocation of forces loyal to President Saleh against the compound of Rachid leader Sheikh Sadiq al-Ahmar.

Medical sources told the BBC that 54 people - including Ahmar supporters, women and children - have died in fierce fighting, and 18 Government soldiers.

More than 250 people have been wounded.

The defence of the Yemen Ministry said 28 people were killed when a factory of ammunition belonging to the tribe Ahmar exploded.

While Mr. Saleh has ordered the arrest of "rebel" Mr. Ahmar and nine of his brothers, the leader of Rachid said that it was "position of strength" and ready to fight "until the end."

In an interview with defiant with Arab Network al-Jazeera Thursday, he called on several occasions Mr. Saleh a liar, accusing him of fomenting a civil war and call repeatedly for him to resign.

Mr. Ahmar said he was protected by soldiers of the army, and members of his tribe and took 70 soldiers who had surrendered as prisoners.

The BBC, Jon Leyne, said demonstrators want the President to leave immediately

He added: "I am ready to put an end to this war if Ali Abdullah Saleh too."

Mr. Saleh has so far refused to withdraw, despite international pressure intensified, warning that the Yemen could descend into civil war.

In a statement Wednesday it was ready to sign a contract of transition "in a national dialogue and a clear mechanism".

The deal Mr. Saleh has so far refused to sign, which was presented by the Gulf Cooperation Council, calls for him to resign in a month after 33 years in Office and power to a Government of national unity.

 

Dozens of people in combating the Yemen

 there were two days of clashes between forces of the tribal Government of Rachid thirty-eight people were killed in the resumption of fighting between the security forces of the Yemen and armed members of the tribe of the largest in the country.

Witnesses reported heavy weapons and machine gun fire in a district of the North of the capital, Sanaa.

Some clashes were around the House of tribal leader Sheikh Sadeq al-Ahmar, who joined protests against the regime of President Abdullah Saleh.

The two parties have also fought outside several key departments.

Sheikh Ahmar, head of the powerful tribe of Rachid, is a former supporter of the President. In March, he joined the anti-Government protests against Mr. Saleh.

"The clashes were violent." You could hear the noise of the machine gun and mortar fire around the world, "a witness told Reuters news agency."

Medical sources said 24 tribes were killed and representatives of the Government, said 14 security personnel killed in the fighting Tuesday.

Clashes flared after both fighters tribes would have killed summers and 25 other combatants wounded Monday.

President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in power since 1978Population 24.3 m; land area 536,869 kmThe sq population has a median age of 17.9 and a literacy of 61% of unemployment rate of 15% gross national income per capita was $ 1,060 (￡ 655) in 2009 (World Bank) violence follows the refusal of Mr. Saleh to sign a negotiated to the Gulf of youth transition process on Sunday.

He said he would sign only in the presence of the leaders of the opposition.

The agreement called for Mr. Saleh to resign in a month after 33 years in Office and power to a Government of national unity. It would also have given the immunity of the President of the prosecution.

Mr. Saleh has been criticized by Western powers, particularly the United States and the France, for failing to agree to a transfer of power.

During this time, many demonstrators - inspired by the revolts successful in Tunisia and Egypt - said the agreement in the Gulf does not go far enough and are demanding immediate departure of Mr. Saleh.

In March, Sheikh Ahmar said he was "join the revolution" and called Mr. Saleh, himself member of the tribe of Rachid, "to the Yemen to avoid bloodshed and make a quiet exit.

Yemen tribe revolts capital

 Yemeni security and medical officials said 38 people were killed in fighting between powerful anti-Government tribes and the forces of President Ali Abdullah Saleh.

A security officer, said 14 soldiers were killed in the fighting and 20 other people had disappeared. A hospital official, said 24 tribes were killed. The two spoke of officials on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the case.

Most powerful tribal fighters and soldiers fire exchanged in the capital Tuesday, the Yemen with shells, mortars and launched street fighting. It is a rapid escalation in the uprising that threatens to become a revolt led by the militia after the failure of mediation obtain Saleh to resign from his duties.

Saleh appealed for a ceasefire.

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SANAA, Yemen (AP) - the most powerful fighters of tribes of the Yemen fired on government buildings and soldiers retaliated with heavy shelling Tuesday the uprising against President Ali Abdullah Saleh threatened to become a revolt led by the militia after the failure of the manifestations of street and mediation of Arabic.

Tribal leaders say at least seven militiamen were killed, but the full balance sheet did not know immediately as the heart of the capital has been transformed into a no-man s land with fire heavy artillery, mortar and artillery apparent Government forces.

Both sides traded blame for triggering the latest violence, deepen the gaps and suggesting Yemen could stagger towards a potentially bloody confrontation between well armed tribal militias and troops of pro-Saleh.

A statement by opposition groups accused Saleh of "drag the country to chaos." The Ministry of the Interior, criticized in turn, the "blood" on Sheikh Sadeq al-Ahmar, the leader of greater tribe of the Yemen, called the Rashid.

Saleh has refused to resign despite three months of protests almost nonstop call for an end to his 32-year rule. He was also snubbed attempts by its Arab neighbours to negotiate his release.

But the decision taken by the tribe of al-Ahmar and others to take up arms significantly alters the balance.

The tribes of the Yemen are considered as essential allies for any Government to survive. Al-Ahmar and others had abandoned Saleh two months even though it is also a member of the clan Rachid. But the tribes decided to keep their weapons failed, then the Government forces fired on street demonstrations in the attacks which have claimed more than 150 victims.

Now, however, battles which began Monday can significantly increase the pressure on the regime of Saleh - either by encouraging clan leaders more to join the struggle or push military officials to abandon the Government.

"The defection of Sheikh al-Ahmar was a very hard blow to the Yemen that any leader because survives only well tribal support," said Faris al-Saqqaf, policy analyst at the independent centre for future research in the capital Sanaa, Yemen. "Saleh is al-Ahmar slaps in the face like al-Ahmar slapped in the face and he wants revenge."

Tuesday the clashes broke out after Government forces tried to assault consisting of al-Ahmar district of Hassaba of Sanaa, a region which includes the ministries of the Government and the headquarters of the Party of the Saleh.

The Yemen leader gives mixed signals before signing

SANA'A, Yemen - the Party of the Yemeni leader Ali Abdullah Saleh has suggested Sunday that he would not sign a contract offered to resign after 32 years in power, if the signing has been held "in camera" and said that he wanted a public event held for all attendincluding the leaders of the opposition.

Statement hours before Saleh was to sign the agreement, was the last of a series of mixed signal of the difficulty of the Yemen President.

Saleh removed from the signature of at least twice before, adding to the deep mistrust of the opposition of a leader known for skillful political manoeuvres that has kept him in power for decades.

Made agreement supported by U.S., mediated by the Gulf Cooperation Council States, claimed Saleh to resign 30 days. Would it also give him legal immunity from prosecution.

Coalition of the opposition of the Yemen signed the contract on Saturday, based on what it said were guaranteed that the President would sign on Sunday.

On Saturday, Saleh has condemned the proposal as "a coup" and warned the United States and Europe that his departure would open the door to al-Qaida taking control of the fragile nation on the edge of Arabia. Yet, an official statement said that he sign Sunday.

"We accept the initiative to stop the bloodshed," Saleh said in a televised speech.

The proposal, mediated by the Gulf Cooperation Council six nations, granted immunity from prosecution if he leaves his post within 30 days. It is however far sure, if it would satisfy all the many different groups to protest against his rule in the streets.

Saleh managed to cling to power deal with the near daily protests by hundreds of thousands of Yemenis tired of corruption and poverty. Like the other movements hostile to the Government, the Arab world, they inspired the popular uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt.

President ranged from providing concessions, taking their return and the execution of a repression violent that killed more than 150 people, according to the opposition, which says that he compiled the count of the lists of the dead in hospitals around the nation.

The bloodshed sparked a wave of defections by members of the party in power, legislators, Ministers of the Cabinet and diplomats. The tribe of Saleh joined those requiring his eviction. More important, several army commanders top of the page, including long-time confidant who heads a powerful armoured division, joined the opposition and deploying their tanks in the streets of the capital, Sana'a, to protect the demonstrators.

Saleh has managed to survive through the loyalty of the Yemen most highly skilled and better equipped military units, led by close family members.

That has raised concerns that the political crisis turns into an armed clash between rival military forces if an agreement is delayed.

Seeking to win support in the West of his continued rule, Saleh has warned several times that without him, al-Qaeda would take control of the country.

"The Americans and Europeans, al-Qaida is coming and it will take control," he said Saturday in his speech televised to the members of the security forces. "The future will be worse than the present."

In the United States, who had supported Saleh with financial aid and military equipment to combat the dangerous al-Qaida in the country branch, submitted be the embattled leader.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, said Yemeni Saturday were removed throughout the country and innocent civilians died.

"President Saleh needs to give its commitment to transfer power," she said in a statement. "The Government of the Yemen must be on the legitimate will of the people."

Al-Qaeda in the Arabian peninsula has about 300 fighters in the Yemen and has been behind several almost successful attacks on U.S. targets, including the one in which they have obtained an aspiring suicide bomber on a flight bound for Detroit in December 2009. The explosive device, sewn to his underwear, is not to detonate properly.

Opposition member Mohammed Ahmed Ghalib dismissed warnings from the President on al-Qaeda.

"It is terrorizing the Americans and the West," said Ahmed.

The proposition - first put forward in March by Saudi Arabia, to the Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates United - gives a clear timetable for a transfer of power.

A week after the sign Saleh, the opposition supports the leadership of a Government of national unity which will include representatives of the Party of Saleh. Parliament will then pass a law to grant legal immunity and a day later - 30 days after the signing of the agreement - it is to withdraw and transfer power to his Deputy.

A month after presidential elections are held.

An official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the opposition representatives signed the agreement Saturday in the presence of the ambassadors of United States and the European Union, with the main mediator, Secretary General of the Council of the Gulf, Abdullatif bin Rashid al-Zayani. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not allowed to speak to the press.

Mohammed al-Sabri, spokesman for the opposition coalition, said that they received assurances of the countries of the Gulf and Western that Saleh would also sign.

The Yemen Saleh refuses to sign the contract to resign

SANAA  - Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has refused to sign an agreement Sunday to resign, the third time such an agreement fell through at the last minute, despite the pressures exerted by the Arab Gulf and Western mediators.

Saleh said al-Qaeda activists could fill a policy and empty security if it is forced out and, in a speech televised Sunday, criticized the opposition of deal collapse.

He said "if (Yemen) is drowned in a civil war, they will be responsible and bloodshed".

The agreement would give Saleh immunity against prosecution, ensuring a dignified exit after 33 years in power. If he had signed, it would become the third long-entrenched Arab leader ousted by popular protests since January.

The United States and Saudi Arabia, the two targets of attacks foiled by based on the regional Yemen wing al-Qaeda, are eager to put an end to the Yemeni deadlock and avoid a spread of lawlessness that would give more space to operate the global activist network.

"Saleh is not seriously out of power." And this is part of its strategy of staying cool, "Analyst based security to Dubai Theodore Karasik said, adding that the sovereign in 69 years was is more regarded as a trusted partner."

"It might be in a position of cling, but outside pressure will be so intense, that it might be its days are numbered," he has said.

The block of Council of cooperation of the Gulf (GCC) of neighboring oil-rich of Yemen and the Western powers exerted intense diplomatic efforts to obtain agreement and put an end to the violence in which more than 170 Yemeni demonstrators were killed.

TRAPPED AMBASSADORS

The GCC called for "a swift signature by President Ali Abdullah Saleh and a peaceful transition of power".

The US President Barack Obama said Thursday that Saleh had to "give its commitment to transfer power. European diplomats have also turned to the two parties to agree on an agreement.

But, in a move likely to infuriate the Gulf and Western countries, armed men loyal to Saleh surround of the Embassy of the United Arab Emirates United Sunday, trapping in the ambassadors of Gulf and Western working to resolve the crisis and prevent to apply to the Presidential Palace to see Saleh.

The United Arab Emirates United urged the Yemeni authorities to secure its Embassy, and diplomats were later reported to have left by helicopter.

Coalition of the opposition of the Yemen, including Islamists and leftists, had already signed the agreement on the Saturday after indications of mediators of the Gulf that Saleh would sign on Sunday.

But diplomats said that Saleh had asked the opposition to go to the Presidential Palace to sign the agreement in his presence again. The opposition said it had already signed and would not go.

The opposition is under pressure to avoid a compromise more young demonstrators, including students and the tribes, who are seeking the immediate release of the Saleh and promised to continue daily meetings until Saleh closes.

"The opposition did not want to go to the Palace because she knows that the leaders of the revolution in Sana'a will be very angry," Hakim al-Masmari, editor in Chief of the Yemen position, told Al Jazeera.

"It will be Saleh look victorious, as a person who leaves power with honour and dignity, not a person who has killed hundreds of Yemenis in the months of the revolution of the Yemen," Al Jazeera quoted Masmari said on its Web site.

Saleh of the Yemen due to the agreement to sign resignation finally

SANAA- President Ali Abdullah Saleh of the Yemen was due to sign a Pact Sunday to become the third Arab leader ousted this year by protests, the strongest diplomatic pressure this time after two choirs at the last minute.

Hundreds of Loyalist Saleh blocked roads to protest against the deal, stacking stones in the streets as makeshift barriers and blocking the car, while overall city anti-Saleh protests which continued for three months has attracted tens of thousands of people.

More than 170 demonstrators were killed in a repression of demonstrations demanding an end to 30 years of Saleh rule, part of the wave of uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East that has swept the leaders of the Tunisia and the Egypt.

Neighbouring Gulf, anxious to avoid the countries in the Arab world's poorest is degenerating into anarchy, negotiated an agreement to alleviate Saleh of power in 30 days, with the promise of immunity from prosecution. The opposition has signed on Saturday.

"We reject signing the initiative of the Gulf and the coup against legitimacy", some pro-Saleh demonstrators yelled their car speakers.

Saleh, a shrewd political survivor and Allied veteran of the United States, has been pressed by its neighbors and Washington to sign the agreement, he argued last signing, on 18 May.

Foreign Ministers of the Arab States of the Gulf who negotiated it should discuss Yemen at a meeting Sunday in Riyadh.

The US President Barack Obama said in a speech on US policy in the Arab world Thursday Saleh had to "give its commitment to transfer power.

Yemen became the home to one of the most powerful wings of al Qaeda and the fear of the United States and Saudi Arabia aggravation of disorders that could give activists space to thrive.

Yemen also faces revolts by Shi'ite rebels in the North and the separatists in the South.

Protesters have threatened to intensify their campaign against Saleh walking on government buildings, a tactic which led to bloodshed over this month when security forces opened fire to stop them. Strikes have uncovered end trade in many cities and events have created shortages of fuel.

The Yemen Saleh hangs on, still capable of attracting crowds

Friday always marks a peak in the battle for Yemen's streets, and this week's day of prayer is expected to be no different, two days after President Ali Abdullah Saleh made clear he has no intention of leaving office. The reason for Saleh's confidence in defying Western and Gulf-State pressure to step down, of course, is evident on the streets most Fridays.

Last week, in the north of the capital, Sana'a, hundreds of thousands of men, women and children kneeled in the dusty streets adjoining Sana'a University to pray under the scorching midday sun. As the imam's sermon finished they rose to their feet, like a Mexican wave rippling across the crowd chanting, as one, "the people want the regime to fall!" (Read about Yemen's death spiral)

Just a few miles south in downtown Sana'a, a long line of horn-blaring Toyota pickup trucks filled with thickly moustached middle-aged men waving traditional daggers, flags, and cardboard cut-outs of the president, snaked its way toward the presidential mosque where a similar-sized throng had massed to rapturously pledge allegiance to President Ali Abdullah Saleh, their ruler of 33 years.

Such has been the arc of Yemen's slow-burning revolt, now in its fifth month that the competing rallies - the anti-Saleh "friday of anger" or "friday of departure" put by a pro-regime "friday of brotherhood" or "of Unity", the competing slogans changing from week to week - more appear like scenes from an election campaign than portents of insurgency.

On Wednesday, mediators from the Gulf monarchies left the country after failing to revive a deal previously by Saleh defencerelated, under which the president of 33 years would stand down in exchange for immunity from prosecution. Opposition leaders said Saleh had refused to sign, and the mission's departure could mark the end of Saudi-led and U.S. - backed efforts to ease Saleh out of power.

Saleh's defiance and gamesmanship, however, are proving that his position may not be as precarious as his opponents would hope. Compared with the feeble efforts of his deposed colleagues in Tunisia and Egypt, Saleh has shown an impressive ability to bring hundreds of thousands of his countrymen onto the streets to back him. So who are these Yemenis who turn out to cheer every Saleh's every word, and why are they protecting a regime that so many of their compatriots seek to oust? (See scenes from Yemen)

The answer from the anti-Saleh camp is that those out supporting the regime are either its beneficiaries, tribesmen trucked in at government expense, but security forces in civilian clothes.

And the baltagiyah (thugs) among them, middle-aged men dressed in traditional Yemeni garb wielding sharpened sticks, lengths of chain and rusty Kalashnikovs, have shown a great readiness to spill the blood of pro-democracy demonstrators. It was these plain-clothed baltagiyah that killed 52 protestors in a sniper attack at the university in March - an incident that prompted many military officers and government officials to defect from the regime.

Other opposition activists say the pro-Saleh demonstrators are paid for their services, claiming this is proved by leaked documents ostensibly signed by government officials.

Purpose bits and the security forces can't explain the scale of the crowds still rallying behind Saleh. As Mohammed Jubran, a professor of economics at Sana'a University points out, "Saleh simply doesn't have enough money left in his central bank to foot that kind of a bill."

Rashid Al-Matari, a grizzly bear-bearded, scrawny tribesman in his early fifties, left his hometown of Beni Matar west of the capital in late March to join the pro-Saleh contingent in Sana' has. He now lives with thousands of other Saleh loyalists in a tent-filled car-park next to a sports stadium on the capital's shabby outskirts. Rashid says he hasn haven't received a penny for his support, but admits that on Fridays he's given lunch (half a chicken and a bag of rice) and a complimentary bag of the stimulant leaf qat by a man in military uniform he calls Fares.

"We didn't come here for money, we came to protect our nation from chaos and destruction," he says, to grunts of approval from fellow tribesmen around him, their lips coated in a green sheen of powdery qat. "Saleh is our ruler because he was elected in fair elections by the Yemeni people, why should he stand down just because usurpers want to sixteen power?" (See why Saleh refused to give up power for so long)

The pro-Saleh camp may be united primarily by fear that his ouster could trigger another bloody civil war. The last one ended in 1994 after the merger of North Yemen and South Yemen into a single country, which remains a fractious and heavily tribal entity where one in three people owns a gun.

"If saleh goes, we will lose Yemen as we know it, this nation will be split into five," warns Abdillah Swuad, the 34 year-old owner of a jewellery shop in old Sana'a ' has. "Even worse... the Islamists will take control," he says, motioning with both his hands to evoke the image of a long beard.

Swuad, like many others, believes that his country's unrest is being fuelled by the Islah, Yemen's highly organised and increasingly popular chapter of the Muslim Brotherhood, which has been clamoring for years for a share of power. By far the dominant force in the Yemen's opposition coalition, the Islah would be favourite to lead any future transitional coalition government in Yemen. But many doubt whether Yemen's opposition, a motley bunch of Islamists, Socialists and Arab nationalists united only by their common enemy, will prove any more adept at running the country.

"If the opposition can't even agree between themselves in Tagheer Square how can you expect them to lead a government," says Omar Mohammed, the owner of cooking gas distribution chain and a former military captain. "They're a bunch of opportunists, many of whom have defected when it benefitted them the most."

Even if Saleh were inclined to resign, his General People's Congress would have to endorse the decision for it to take effect. Many in the party would opposed him going, and that could allow Saleh to repeat his antics of 2006 when he promised not to run for re-election only to later bow to the "popular pressure and appeals of the Yemeni people."

Despite weekly contest for the streets of Sana'a ' a by hundreds of thousands of rival protestors, there remains a significant silent majority in Yemen too bogged down in day to day struggles to go out protesting. But with Yemen's economy entering a dangerous downward spiral, the politically uncommitted may be forced by economic desperation to take sides.

"We're nearing the stage where people's desperate conditions will drive them to desperate measures," says Jubran. "It's no longer a question of politics, it's matter of survival."

"Even in their poverty, millions still back [Saleh]," says Nasser Araybee, a Yemeni journalist who writes for the Gulf-based Al-Ahram Weekly. "But for most of them, now, it's a question of dignity - if Saleh can leave power in a respectable way the majority will accept it. If they sense he is being ousted by inferior forces they will stand by him until the very end."

Yemen protests paralyse 2 cities, police kill two

SANAA - the Yemeni security forces have killed two demonstrators and wounded dozens Wednesday as rallies of mass demanding the overthrow of President Ali Abdullah Saleh paralyzed two cities Wednesday, residents and nurses said.

Snipers shot two demonstrators in Taiz as disorders in a third day running close main industrial city of the Yemen. Dozens were wounded by gunfire artillery, tear gas and beatings by officers in civilian, wielding bats, nurses in Taiz said.

Protesters retaliated by burning a building of the police, residents said.

Oil giant Saudi Arabia and the United States neighbors fear escalating violence could push Yemen impoverished, already riven by tribal and separatist, conflicts in the chaos which could be used by the wing based on the Yemen of al-Qaeda operate more freely.

The security forces in Taiz were trying to break up a blockade to protest the Ministry of education in the region, some 200 km (130 miles) South of the capital Sanaa.

But the demonstrators rather extended their blockade to complete public services and the Directorate-General of the Ministry of oil of Taiz. Residents, said that the city of 540 000 people has been effectively paralyzed.

"Shops are closed and the streets are completely empty of pedestrians, only demonstrators are around in the areas they face (security forces)," resident Wajdi said Abdullah.

Demonstrators also began life in the virtual Ibb city. "Almost all stores are closed to Ibb except a few sells basic food products." No one will work - it is unprecedented in this city, "said resident Ali Noaman.

The country of the Arabian peninsula was rocked by three months of daily protests and demonstrators frustrated by the unwillingness of Saleh to give up to about 33 years in power have sought new ways to release its grip.

Many called for extending a sporadic general strike in a daily event.

Yemen is facing a growing crisis of fuel that the tribes continue to blockade of long weeks of Maarib province, the main source of oil and gas. A shipping source told Reuters that the Government was losing about $ 3 million per day that exports have been blocked.

But this can be equally overwhelming for residents themselves for the Saleh Government.

A fragile economy of the Yemen is struggling to stay afloat, as the currency tumbling below 240 against the dollar and the price of necessities soar. This will increase the difficulties for the 40 per cent of the Yemen 23 million people living on less than $ 2 a day and one-third of them suffer from chronic hunger.

Residents in the more remote regions suffer also severe water shortages because trucks have been bringing shipments of water because of fuel rationing.

Drone kills 2 suspected Al-Qaeda to the Yemen

 A plane suspected U.S. drone fired a missile at a car in the Yemen in the South Thursday, killing two brothers believed to be activists of al-Qaida, said the security officials and tribal.

Ministry of defence of the Yemen confirmed the death of the brothers in the province of Shabwa, but would provide any more details.

In September, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the said country was no longer allowing unmanned aircraft missile attacks. But after the al-Qaida in smuggling of explosives in the aircraft cargo related to the United States at the end of October, it is believed the strikes resumed.

In the Yemen, which is wracked by massive protests against the President very unpopular, is also houses one of the most active branches of al-Qaeda, which has planned several attacks against the United States.

Security of Shabwa provincial and tribal officials reached by telephone identified the two brothers as Abdullah and Mubarak Geographic, but they have not explained why they were sure that the attacks were conducted by unmanned aircraft.

The spoke to officials on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the incident.

Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, as the local branch calls itself, is estimated at about 300 fighters with built strongholds in the provinces of Shabwa and Abyan, Jouf, Marib, regions of daunting mountains where central authority has virtually no presence.

And attacking Government targets, the Group has inspired attacks by Muslims in the United States and two times more contraband explosives the plane headed to America.

The United States originally led a campaign of drone strikes similar to the one who killed numerous personalities of al-Qaida in Pakistan until a local official was killed accidentally. In September, the Foreign Minister Abu Bakr al-Qirbi said that the strikes had been suspended.

To the United States paid to money in training Yemeni fight against terrorism forces with 150 million dollars in annual military aid and up to 100 trainers at any time.

The popular protests calling for the eviction of long-standing President Ali Abdullah Saleh service across the country, however, disrupted the Government's efforts against al-Qaida.

On Thursday, thousands of protesters struck again in the streets to demand that Saleh resign, walking in South Yemen and Central. In at least two protests, Saleh supporters attacked marchers.

In the central city of Bayda, activists said supporters burned Saleh a few tents in a protest camp on the place of the city demonstrators prayed.

Hundreds more demonstrators arrived at the camp to denounce the burning as other donations collected to replace tents, said an activist who spoke the condition of anonymity because he was afraid of retaliation.

"We will be rebuilding," demonstrators shouted.

In the town of Damt, in the South of the province of al-Saleh, supporters of Saleh organized a March of his support, waving automatic rifles and sticks. The crowd stormed a record store, beating its owner to play songs anti-Saleh, said Mohammed al-Marfadi, a local activist.

They also attacked an ice cream vendor who had wrapped the head in a national flag with the word "go" scribbled on it.

Yemen power transition deal faces last minute hooking (Reuters)

SANAA (Reuters) - a contract at the end of the Yemen political crisis hit a potential snag Saturday as have doubts on the question of whether President Ali Abdullah Saleh would be personally sign an agreement that he would have left power less than a month.

But the coalition of main opposition in the country said he still hopes rich Gulf States which negotiated the agreement would be able to provide a signature by Saleh, a surviving clever policy who has faced three months of pro-democracy protests seeking his eviction.

"Until now, we still hope that the efforts of the Secretary-General of the Gulf Cooperation Council will succeed in convincing the President to sign," a prominent opposition leader told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity.

Saleh, who has held the poor Arabian Peninsula State for 33 years, had been due to sign a contract Saturday to an agreement which, if applied, would make the third Arab leader dismissed a wave of popular uprisings.

But in a last ride minute, an employee of the said Government talks are underway in the party to power that Saleh would be personally sign or let senior officials of his party. Such an approach could throw the entire agreement in doubt.

"There is debate on the issue at this moment," said the official. Other officials already said several times that Saleh would sign on Saturday.

The United States and the neighbouring oil giant Saudi Arabia want the deadlock Yemen resolved to avoid the chaos that could allow wing Yemen of al-Qaeda operate more freely.

Saleh, in principle, accepted the agreement negotiated by its neighbours of the CCG exporters of oil.

Overriding opposition of the Yemen, which includes Islamists and leftists, has also agreed to the agreement, even though the demonstrators rejected the agreement and demand Saleh resign immediately and be brought to justice.

Saleh, long considered an ally of U.S. against wing based at the al-Qaeda Yemen, had already forced mediators to split the two-day signing ceremony and objected to the presence of the Qatari officials.

Prime Minister of the State of the Qatar was the first to publicly declare the agreement of the Gulf seek resignation of the Saleh, and his Al Jazeera satellite television channel was accused by Saleh of incitement to revolt in the Arab worldnow swept by pro-democracy demonstrations.

While the Yemeni leader should sign the Pact Sanaa, Vice President of his party will travel to the Saudi capital Riyadh Sunday official ceremony of signing by the opposition, which warned that additional bloodshed could derail the deal.

VIOLENCE IN THE SOUTH YEMEN

The violence erupted at the front South of the expected signature Yemen when armed men killed two police officers and wounded two others in the city of port of Aden, said State media. Witnesses said that armed men attacked a police station. Shooting also erupted outside a prison nearby.

Shortly after, forces security moved to disperse an anti-government demonstration in the same district, killing two demonstrators and injuring 50 more, said Qassim Jamil, a doctor.

Demonstrators fled the scene, and tanks and armoured vehicles were patrolling the streets, witnesses said. The wounded were taken to hotels nearby for treatment because they could not reach hospitals, said Jamil.

Analysts say the Government, which has tried to contain the separatists in the South and Shi'ite rebels in the North, secessionist fear might try to take advantage of the crisis of leadership of the Yemen to renew boost for separation.

Protesters say they will remain on the streets until that leaves Saleh. They also called for him to be brought to justice for corruption and death of 144 demonstrators estimated killed since the beginning of the gatherings three months ago.

The agreement of the CCG offers Saleh and his entourage, including parents who run branches of the security forces, the immunity from prosecution.

"People want the trial of the murderer!" some anti-Saleh demonstrators shouted protests Friday which ended with a funeral March for 12 killed demonstrators on Wednesday, thousands of transmit their hand to hand wooden coffins to their graves.

Analysts say a window of 30 days for Saleh to resign gives enough time for the disaffected forces of the old guard to incorporate the disorder to the Yemen, where half of the population possesses a firearm and al-Qaeda has taken foot in its mountainous regions.

Should the deal go by, Saleh appoints a Prime Minister of the opposition at the head of a transitional Government, which would create a presidential vote for 60 days after his departure.

Many protestors, wary of the opposition due to its presence in the Government in the past, has urged at the rear of the transaction.

"They lose Saleh does not adhere to the Convention.". If it cannot find a reason to overturn it will trigger a war, "demonstrating Sanaa Abdulsalam Mahmoud said."

Saleh of the Yemen because the transition sign deal (Reuters)

 the President of the Yemen was to sign an agreement Saturday to leave power within a month in exchange for an agreement rejected by the protesters calling for his immediate eviction and the pursuit of immunity.

Ali Abdullah Saleh, who has held the poor Arabian Peninsula State for 33 years, in principle, accepted the agreement negotiated by the six-State Member Cooperation Council for the Gulf (GCC).

His departure would make Saleh the third leader to be ousted by a wave of popular uprisings against autocratic Arab who brought down the Presidents of the Tunisia and the Egypt.

Saleh, a skillful political operator regarded as a key U.S. ally against wing based at the al-Qaeda Yemen, forced mediators to split the signing ceremony two days by objecting to the presence of the Qatari officials.

Prime Minister of the State of the Qatar was the first to publicly declare the agreement of the Gulf seek resignation of the Saleh and Al Jazeera satellite channel has been criticized by Saleh for incitement to revolt in the Arab world, which was swept by pro-democracy demonstrations.

Thus while the Yemeni leader signs pact Sanaa, Vice President of his party will travel to the Saudi capital Riyadh Sunday official ceremony of signing by the opposition.

WAVE OF PROTEST

Tensions in the Yemen were defined above since gunmen shot dead 12 demonstrators in Sanaa Wednesday and the opposition warned that the violence could derail the transaction.

Tens of thousands of protests descended into the streets to the Friday Yemen, promising to remain there until Saleh actually smoking.

They also called for him to be brought to trial for corruption and death of 142 demonstrators estimated killed since the beginning of the events three months ago.

The agreement of the CCG offers Saleh and his entourage, including parents who run branches of the security forces, the immunity from prosecution.

Protests anti-Saleh in Sanaa Friday, ended by a funeral March for 12 demonstrators shot dead two days earlier, thousands from their hand to hand wooden coffins to their graves.

"People want the trial of the murderer," some anti-Saleh demonstrators shouted.

Analysts say the window of 30 days for Saleh to resign gives enough time for the disaffected forces of the old guard to incorporate the disorder to the Yemen, where half of the population possesses a firearm and al-Qaeda has taken foot in its mountainous regions.

The United States and the neighbouring oil giant Saudi Arabia want the deadlock Yemen resolved to avoid the chaos that could allow wing Yemen of al-Qaeda operate more freely.

Should the deal go by, Saleh appoints a Prime Minister of the opposition at the head of a transitional Government, which would be put in place for presidential elections in 60 days after he resigned.

Many demonstrators, already wary for the coalition of the opposition due to its presence in the Government in the past, called for them to return to the transaction.

"They lose Saleh does not adhere to the Convention.". "If it cannot find a reason to overturn it will trigger a war," said manifesting Sanaa Abdulsalam Mahmoud.