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From Our Own Correspondent

March 5, 2011

From Our Own Correspondent

BBC

News, News Commentary

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2011

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Dreams of a new Libya in the revolutionary city of Benghazi but, as Kevin Connolly's been discovering, there's fear too. Could Saudi Arabia be touched by this season of revolt in the Middle East? It's a question answered by a correspondent who knows the kingdom better than most, Frank Gardner. In a court in Belarus, David Stern looks on as KGB evidence condemns a pro-democracy activist. Judy Swallow chronicles the life of a hand-rickshaw puller in the Indian city of Kolkata and on a hunting trip in the Amazon, Justin Rowlatt finds himself wearing not much more than a string of feathers....and a smile.

Transcript

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0:17.0

But now with the addition broadcasts on Radio 4, here's Kate Aide.

0:21.6

Today they're still fearful in the city where the Libyan revolt began.

0:26.0

The King of Saudi Arabia tries to head off the possibility of a people's uprising.

0:31.8

Opponents of the President of Bela Rus come to court in what some describe as

0:35.7

Soviet-style show trials. Also, there's an embarrassing moment for our correspondent inappropriately

0:42.0

dressed on a hunting trip up the Amazon.

0:45.8

There are reports of heavy fighting this morning in the town of Zawera, west of the Libyan

0:50.4

capital Tripoli.

0:52.1

It's still not clear if forces loyal to Colonel Gaddafi

0:54.8

hold the upper hand or whether they've been repuls by anti-government rebels. To the east of

1:00.2

Tripoli there's also been fighting in the oil port of Rasslanuf.

1:04.7

The opposition leader in the main rebel-held city of Benghazi has urged the West to impose a

1:09.5

no-fly zone on Libya to prevent Gaddafi from launching air attacks on Libyans.

1:14.0

Kevin Connolly has been hearing why people there hope Gaddafi's rule will soon be over.

1:20.0

There are evenings in Benghazi when the darkness of the dust storms rolling north out of the desert gets to town before the night edging south towards the land from the wintry Mediterranean.

1:31.0

Then the grey dusk thickens and slowly erases the detail of

1:35.5

daytime from view. The advertising hoarding were a poster of Muamakadafi has been

1:40.6

torn down to reveal another older poster of him underneath, the faded elegance

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