Hezbollah calls for week of protests over anti-Islam film Today attention looks set to be divided between the continuing violent protests against the US over an anti-Islamic video; and the crisis in Syria, which will be subject of a debate at the UN's Human Rights Council. Here's a roundup of the latest developments: Protests over anti-Islamic film Lebanon Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the militant Hezbollah group, has called for a week of fresh protests over the anti-Islamic film, the BBC reports. In a speech broadcast on Hezbollah's Al-Manar TV station, Nasrallah said the world needed to know Muslims "would not be silent in the face of this insult." The president of Libya's parliament, Mohamed al-Magariaf, said military action is being considered against militants blamed for the killing of the US ambassador Chris Stevens. Pakistan Two people were killed and several others injured and arrested in a series of protests against the film, Pakistan's Daily Times reports. One activist was killed in Karachi after protesters broke through security cordons and got close to the heavily guarded US consulate. Another man died in protests in Hyderabad, it said. US defence secretary Leon Panetta said that the US was still on standby to deploy elite forces to protect American interests in cities caught up the protests, but that the level of violence appears to be levelling off. The Pentagon had already sent troops to "a number of areas in the region to be prepared to respond to any requests that we receive to be able to protect our personnel and our American property," he said. US ambassador to the UN, Susan Rice, said that the consulate attack in Benghazi was a spontaneous reaction to the film, and not a planned strike as some US officials had claimed last week. In an interview with ABC News, she said: We believe that folks in Benghazi, a small number of people came to the embassy to -- or to the consulate, rather, to replicate the sort of challenge that was posed in Cairo. And then as that unfolded, it seems to have been hijacked, let us say, by some individual clusters of extremists who came with heavier weapons, weapons that as you know in -- in the wake of the revolution in Libya are -- are quite common and accessible. And it then evolved from there. The state department has ordered non-essential staff from its embassies in Sudan and Tunisia to leave and warned its citizens against travelling to the two countries after attacks on western embassies. General Mohammad Ali Jafari, the elite guards' commander, said that a number of members of the IRGC's Qods force were in Syria, but claimed this did not constitute "a military presence." The attacks against US embassies confirm US wariness about intervening in Syria, a senior US official, and others, told the New York Times. It quoted Brian Katulis, a national security expert at the Centre for American Progress, as saying: "These incidents will further give people pause because already our intelligence agencies have been telling us that amongst the Syrian opposition - the people who we're supposed to support - some of them are Al-Qaida affiliates. " The BBC's Paul Wood reports from Aleppo on the continuing aerial bombardment of residential areas used as hideouts by the Free Syrian Army. The rebels says they have no choice but to fight and often to do it from residential areas. They tried to hide their positions, said a local commander, Mudar al-Najar, but they were plagued by informers. And, he said, the regime was happy to kill civilians "deliberately," hitting hospitals and bread queues in Aleppo. "They do it on purpose to push the people away from us," he said. Human Rights Watch has stepped up its criticism of rights abuses by rebel groups after compiling fresh evidence of torture and extrajudicial killings on a visit to Aleppo. It documented more than a dozen extrajudicial and summary executions by opposition forces. And half the detainees in two opposition-run detention facilities it spoke to, said they had been tortured and mistreated. The UN's Human Rights Council is due to discuss a UN report today that documented war crimes on both sides. Iran is using Iraqi airspace to supply to Assad's forces and thousands of Iraqi militia fighters have crossed into Syria to support his troops, according to Iraq's fugitive vice president. Tariq al-Hashemi, who fled Iraq in December and was sentenced to death a week ago by an Iraqi court, said the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki was failing to stop ammunitions and armaments reaching Syria. A soldier was killed and seven were injured in a set of retaliatory attacks on security forces in Sinai on Sunday as the fallout from a major attack that killed 16 border guards last month continues in the peninsula. Sunday's raids by security guards linked to the 5 August attacks were met with almost immediate retaliation by armed gunmen and a three-hour shootout ensued according to witnesses in the area.