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14 September 2012 Last updated at 14:28 GMT
Anti-Islam film: German and UK embassies in Sudan attacked
Protesters in the Sudanese capital Khartoum angered by a film mocking Islam are
clashing with police firing tear gas outside the US embassy.
Earlier, crowds stormed the German and British embassies.
In Tunisia, protesters are confronting police around the US embassy. One person
has been killed in Lebanon and five reported hurt in Cairo. There have also
been clashes in Yemen.
Protests began on Tuesday against the film, which was made in the US.
However, the film - clips of which were dubbed into Arabic and distributed
online - has no link to either Germany or the UK.
It depicts the Prophet Muhammad as a womaniser and the bloodthirsty leader of a
ragtag group of men who enjoy killing.
However, the film's exact origin and the motivation behind its production
remain a mystery.
'Million-man march'
A spokesperson for the UK Foreign Office confirmed to the BBC that a
demonstration was taking place outside the embassy in Khartoum, and said
Sudanese police were at the scene.
However, the spokesperson could not say whether protesters had entered the
embassy, or whether the demonstration was about the anti-Islam film.
The German foreign ministry confirmed all its staff in Khartoum were safe.
In Cairo, police firing tear gas pushed about 500 protesters back from the US
embassy. The streets nearby have been blocked with barbed wire, concrete and
police vehicles.
Islamist groups and others had called for a peaceful "million-man march" in the
city, but a number withdrew those calls on Friday.
The Muslim Brotherhood of Egyptian President Mohammed Mursi said it would
organise marches and sit-ins in front of mosques - but none outside the US
embassy in Cairo.
After talks with Italian leaders in Rome, Mr Mursi reiterated his government's
determination to protect foreign diplomats on its soil. He also condemned the
film as unacceptable.
In other developments:
In the Yemeni capital Sanaa, security forces fired warning shots and water
cannon to disperse protesters near the US embassy
In the Lebanese city of Tripoli, protesters set fire to a KFC branch,
sparking clashes with security forces
In Bangladesh, thousands of demonstrators demanded harsh punishment for the
film's makers, and burned the American flag
The protests began on Tuesday in Cairo. They spread to the Libyan city of
Benghazi, where demonstrators stormed the US consulate, killing the ambassador
and three other Americans.
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