Live ammunition has also been used and a woman is in a critical condition after being hit in the head.

These are pictures from today's protest in Yangon, where water cannon has been used against protesters.

The authorities have also extended areas where gatherings are restricted.

It comes as New Zealand is suspending all high level contacts with the military authorities in Myanmar.

Well, our reporter Nay Nan a has filed this report from the city of Yangon.

Why Special protests continue here in Lima for 1/4 straight day even though the military regime has been gathering so more than five people here I am with a group of protester gathering in front off union headquarters in Yangon.

I have seen people from all different backgrounds, including the government stops when I spoke to them.

They are awfully aware off all rich.

But they said the war must know what is happening in jungle.

Anti coup protester to find all the money from the agenda bit rallies also continue in other major cities across the country.

This is Nina, BBC news Jungle Well earlier, I spoke to our South East Asia correspondent, Jonathan Head in Bangkok.

He told me the protesters remain defiant.

Yes, they know about the risks they've been told, of course, by their parents.

What happened in previous episodes of unrest, where the army used extreme levels of lethal force, a great cost in casualties?

They know that's a possibility.

I think there is such a sense of outrage and also a sense that if they allow the military to get away with this toe, end the 10 year experiment in democracy which has transformed the lives in particular of younger people, and you see so many young people in these protests that you know they will lose their chance for the better life, their hopes they would get is a very huge amount of passion behind these protests.

It is not just in Yangon.

It's remarkable how many places are having protests every day.

I mean, really small towns I've never even heard of before.

We're suddenly finding popping up with rallies going on.

So this has the hallmarks at the moment, off a nationwide uprising.

Even though there's no central organization unseen, Suki and her party are playing very little role.

As far as we know so far, she still in detention.

But for all that is, it is quite a serious threat to the new military hunter because they don't appear to have much control.

Certainly over the protests in most of the country, not even in their own capital, Nipah door that capital was built by the military to be a fortress where it would be very hard to hold protests for a long time.

There were only civil servants living there.

Yet we've seen really passionate demonstrations there today on the most violent confrontations with the police, you were talking about rubber bullets.

We do believe that live rounds were fired because the one woman who is in critical condition appears to have been hit by a live round in the head.

So it has escalated there.

And it tells you how how serious the situation is now for the men who led the coup last week.

Jonathan, we're currently seeing this in the hands off the police on, but it is getting out of hand and they are trying to control it.

But the rial worry will be when the army comes out onto the streets.

Yeah, I like the way you use the word when you know, knowing Myanmar's history, that does seem an inevitability.

I do get the sense that the government, the new regime, doesn't want to do that.

Yet they've let these protests run for four days.

But the police are not proving very effective in crowd control, and this is just happening over such a wide area on.

We're seeing very different approaches from the police.

Quite a lot of force used in Ecuador with casualties, but in other places the police either standing by and Yangon.

They did nothing to try and stop the protest.

Today, or even in some cases, the police have gone over to the side of the protesters, or at least let let them pass.

Now that carries on.

If the police lose morale on, decide that these protesters have got right on their side.

It's a very strong argument.

When you think of how many people voted, for instance, Souci just last November, then the military will have to step in and they don't have water cannon or crowd control techniques.

All they have is live rounds.

Nobody wants to go back there There's been such terrible periods in the past of bloodshed on the streets in Myanmar.

But it's very hard to see that being avoided when you have ah, movement that has so much momentum behind it, so much popular sentiment on an army that genuinely believes it's done the right thing and that it must now exert its control over the country.