BBC
Up to 10,000 Burmese Buddhist monks and civilians have defied police tear gas and baton charges to continue protests in Rangoon against the military rulers.
At least one monk was reportedly killed and witnesses spoke of monks' shaved heads stained with blood at the Shwedagon pagoda as police charged.
Security forces reportedly surrounded six monasteries to prevent more monks joining the ninth day of protests.
Meanwhile, the UN Security Council has called emergency talks for 1900GMT.
UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown called the talks vowing "no impunity" for human rights violators.
This is a battle of wills between Burma's two most powerful institutions, the military and the monk-hood, and the outcome is still unclear, the BBC's South East Asia correspondent, Jonathan Head, says.
Analysts fear a repeat of the violence in 1988, when troops opened fire on unarmed protesters, killing thousands.
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