After Saleh called for dialogue, opposition activists called for fresh protests on Monday and escalate demands for his ouster. Meanwhile, violence continued across the country’s streets with rival troops resumed clashes.

After the embattled Yemeni leader called for dialogue, considering protests as the blood path which would not succeed, opposition activists called for fresh protests on Monday and escalate demands for the immediate departure of Ali Abdullah Saleh. Meanwhile, violence continued across the country’s streets with rival troops resumed clashes.

"The youth will not accept," said Walid al-Amari, a leading member of the youth protest committee, addressing demonstrators at the square near the capital's main university.
"They will not give up until they achieve all the goals of the revolution," he added, referring to demands that the veteran leader quit power immediately.

Part of Monday's events would be protests at Change Square by women demonstrators, organizers said.

Saleh late on Sunday, called for early confirmed he had authorized his Vice President to launch dialogue with opposition; calling for early presidential and parliamentary elections would be after an agreement would be signed.

CALL FOR DIALOGUE
In an address on television, Saleh said violence would not succeed in bringing about change in the country. "This bloodbath will not get you power," he told those ranged against him.

He blamed the violence that has plagued his country on elements of al-Qaeda, adding that he was committed to the Gulf initiative on power transfer in his country.
"You who are running after power, let us head together toward the ballot boxes. We are against coups," Saleh said in a speech aired on state television on the 49th anniversary of the September 26, 1962 revolution that saw Yemen proclaimed a republic.

"We have repeatedly called for power transfer through the ballot box... let us head together to dialogue and peaceful rotation over power through the ballot box and early presidential elections as the Gulf initiative stipulates," he said. 
"We are committed to implementing the Gulf initiative as it is, and to signing it by Vice President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi, whom we have authorized in a presidential decree," he said.

FRECH CLASHES
Meanwhile, in Sanaa, soldiers used live rounds against thousands of protesters chanting "God is great, Freedom" as they marched out of their protest camp into the capital's busy streets.

"I saw soldiers from above, in buildings and on the bridge," said Mohammed al-Mas, 21, a protester whose back was drenched in blood from a gunshot wound. "Then the gunfire started and I ran back, but I suddenly felt the shot in the back."

Medics said 18 people were injured with two of them were in critical condition. Doctors spattered with blood worked on bullet wounds at a makeshift hospital in "Change Square," the name protesters have given to their shanty town of tents in the middle of Sanaa.