On air at 1100GMT: The latest on the arab spring
| 10:09 UK time, Friday, 6 May 2011
This topic was discussed on World Have Your Say on 6 May 2011. Listen to the programme.
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Just a few months ago the governments of Tunisia and Egypt fell with what is now being seen as relative ease, and already changes are being seen in those countries. Tunisia's ex-leader Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali and his wife are to face new charges linked to the killings of some protesters during January's uprising.
And in Egypt a key man in the Mubarak regime, former Interior Minister Habib al-Adly has been sentenced to 12 years in jail on charges of money-laundering and profiteering.
Yet elsewhere across the Middle East the fight to overthrow regimes is facing greater resistance. In the next few hours Syrian activists are preparing to take to the streets for what they are calling a "day of defiance". More than 500 Syrians are thought to have been killed during attempts to quell seven weeks of protests.
In Libya rebels continue to fight Col Gadaffi's troops. It's been announced that a fund to support the rebels is being set up after an urgent request was made by leaders in Benghazi. The rebels' Transitional National Council says it needs $2bn-$3bn (£1.2bn-£1.8bn) in the coming months for military salaries, food, medicine and other basic supplies.
In Yemen, the signing ceremony for a deal to end the country's political crisis has been postponed indefinitely after the the Associated Press has reported.
reports although the protests in Bahrain have dropped off the headlines - the government there is planning to prosecute the doctors who treated those wounded in the riots in February and March.
Across the region the Arab spring has changed some people's view towards the west. This blog says
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So I am glad that Osama bin Laden lived to see the Arab Spring. Watching revolutions spread through North Africa and the Middle East exposed how bankrupt his life's work had become. He lived long enough to know just how alone he was.
We'll be speaking to people and protestors across the region to find out what's happening where they are and about what they hope the future hold for them.
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