southern city in yemen starting yesterday evening, continuing through the overnight hours and this morning. we spoke to many anti-government nonstraiters and medical officials in the city of taiz starting last night. they said government forces started opening fire on them, shooting directly at them. that at that point three members of the anti-government movement there had been killed, 90 injured. several hours later we were told by eyewitnesses and medical officials that government forces started attacking the camps that are set up in the city of taiz in freedom square, the epicenter of the anti-government movement there. the peaceful youth revolutionary movement, that's their staging ground there in the city of taiz where tens of thousands of people have been coming out into the streets of that city for the last four months asking for resignation of president ali abdullah saleh. we are told troops started coming in, burning tents, shooting at protester. i spoke to a medical official a short while ago.