in Yemen has broadcast a brief message from President Ali Abdullah Saleh more than six hours after he was injured in a rocket attack on his compound in the capital Sanaa. But President Saleh was not seen in
an
outlaw
ed gang of his tribal foes. Lina Sinjab reports from Sanaa.
The audio message from President Ali Abdullah Saleh was brief. He said he was lightly wounded in the attack on his compound, adding that seven people had been killed. Earlier, a Yemeni minister, Hisham Sharaf, told the BBC the speaker of the Yemeni parliament was seriously wounded. The attack is the most significant
escalation
in days of the fighting between President Saleh's forces and armed tribesmen allied to his main rival Sheikh Hamid al-Ahmar. Government forces have accused them of carrying out the attack, but they've denied it.
Human rights activists in Syria say security forces have opened fire on demonstrators in the central city of Hama, killing at least 34 people. They say 100,000 people attended the anti-government protests in the city. Jim Muir reports from neighbouring Lebanon.
Tens of thousands of people poured into the streets after Friday prayers, some of them coming in from the surrounding countryside. Syrian state tele