Thai Premier Yingluck Shinawatra on Thursday skipped her appearance before an anti-graft body over charges related to a populist rice-pledging scheme, even as she shot down anti-government protest movement's conditional talk offer to end ongoing political deadlock. The leader of Thailand's anti-government protest movement said on Thursday that he is willing to negotiate to end the country's political crisis, if the prime minister is willing to talk with him live, one-to-one, on every national television station. The offer by Suthep Thaugsuban came as increasing violence associated with his group's months-long protest has prompted fresh calls for negotiations. The protesters say they want Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to resign to make way for an unelected interim government to institute anti-corruption reforms. Ms.