Yemen’s powerful Republican Guard forces opened fire with guns, tear gas and water cannons today at a march by more than 100,000 protesters demanding that the outgoing president be put on trial.

Government supporters wielding knives and handguns attacked protesters in southern Yemen today, leaving one dead.

WITH US ground forces closing in fast, Saddam Hussein last night exhorted the Iraqi people to “fight them with your hands,” according to a statement on Iraqi satellite television.

Helicopters have begun attacking Saddam Hussein’s Republican Guard forces arrayed around Baghdad, a Pentagon official said tonight.