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Dreams of a new Libya in the revolutionary city of Benghazi.

Could Saudi Arabia be touched by this season of revolt in the Middle East...?

In a court in Belarus, we watch KGB evidence condemn a pro-democracy activist.

And on a hunting trip in the Amazon, our correspondent finds himself wearing nothing more than a string of feathers....and a smile.

The fate of the attempted revolution in Libya is far from settled. There are skirmishes along the main coastal, desert highway, and occasional air strikes by Colonel Gaddafi's jets. But neither his forces nor his opponents seem capable of mounting a decisive military assault. So for now at least, Benghazi.....the city where the revolt began....remains free of the Colonel's regime. And Kevin Conolly has been listening to people there talk of the oppression they've endured under his rule....

The ructions in Libya are making an impact far beyond the Middle East. The upheaval in this oil-producing nation have helped hike the cost of petrol around the world. But the oil price would really rocket if Saudi Arabia were to be seriously shaken by the region's current spirit of revolution. So is there any realistic chance of that...? Our correspondent, Frank Gardner knows Saudi well, and he says that there are murmurs of discontent.....

A series of trials is under way in Belarus. President Alexander Lukashenko's opponents are being put through the courts. They're facing charges in connection with a protest they launched after the last election. They were angry that -- according to the official results -- Mr Lukashenko had been re-elected with a huge majority. Independent observers said the vote had fallen well short of democratic standards.... Mr Lukashenko's critics describe the current court cases as no more than Soviet-style, show trials. But the government insists the protests were part of a plot to overthrow it.... Our correspondent David Stern has been watching the trials unfold in the Belarussian capital, Minsk...

Right now, around the world there are people doing all sorts of very tough jobs..... There will be fishermen out in the heaving, freezing North Atlantic... There'll be farmers bent double in their paddyfields.... There'll be, sweat-shop workers putting in yet another, exhausting shift.... But in the Indian city of Kolkota, Judy Swallow has been talking to a man who knows as well as anyone what it means to have to make a living the hard way.

In our last programme we talked about fashion trouble....the trickiness of making sure that you're dressed properly in different parts of the world. One of our correspondents had struggled to get into a very posh cocktail bar in Singapore. They said she wasn't wearing quite the right type of stylish sandals.... And now we hear that deep in the Amazon jungle, Justin Rowlatt has also faced a serious dress code issue. He had to decide whether or not he should put on one particularly striking accessory.....and as you'll hear, it really wasn't something that they'd let you wear in that posh cocktail bar in Singapore....