Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has rejected protesters' demands that she resign before February's snap elections. She made a short and tearful announcement to this effect.

Demonstrators have been calling for Yingluck Shinawatra to resign and be replaced with a people's prime minister .

On Monday, around 150,000 protesters had converged around the government headquarters in what they had described as a final push to unseat the government.

On the same day, Ms Yingluck announced that she would dissolve parliament and call elections, now set for 2 February.

Yingluck's Pheu Thai party has a majority in parliament, and draws significant support from Thailand's rural areas. The party is seen as well-placed to win February's election.

From past experience Thailand's bars are set to be shout on Friday 31st January and Saturday 1st February. Also bars will open late on Sunday 2nd February. In addition there is round of voting on the weekend before the election when the bars will also be shut on at least Saturday.

At least one person has been killed and three wounded by gunfire after clashes broke out between rival protesters in the Thai capital Bangkok.

People heading to a pro-government rally were attacked by students, and later shots were fired.

Saturday is the seventh day of protests aiming to unseat the government of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra. Protesters claim her government is controlled by her brother, exiled former leader Thaksin Shinawatra.

On Saturday, what had been largely peaceful demonstrations turned violent outside a stadium where a pro-government rally has been confined during this week to avoid clashes with the anti-government protests moving around the city, the BBC's Jonathan Head reports from Bangkok.

A group of students attacked vehicles bringing government supporters to the stadium - windows were smashed, and some minor injuries reported. Later, shots were fired, but it is not clear yet by whom. Police reinforcements were sent to the area and roads blocked, but skirmishes between the two sides continued for several hours.

Police have called for military backup to reinforce security in the city.