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From Our Own Correspondent: Fighting Hungary’s 'Slave Law'

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22/12/2018 GMT

Fighting Hungary’s 'Slave Law'

BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent, Fighting Hungary’s 'Slave Law'

The protest against a law which means employers can demand 400 hours of overtime a year

The Hungarian protests against a new overtime law; a return to Somalia's "pirate capital"; an escape from Cameroon and a visit to one of the world's oldest Christian communities

We look at the protests against a law which means employers can demand 400 hours of overtime a year. Nick Thorpe in Budapest examines the roots of a crisis that has united Hungary’s divided opposition. Pascale Harter introduces this and other stories from around the world. 

Anne Soy returns to a town once known as Somalia’s "pirate capital". Lorraine Mallinder hears how one woman managed to save herself and her little granddaughter from the violence in Cameroon, a nation that is sliding towards a civil war. And Jeremy Bristow goes to Southern Turkey, to meet one of the world’s oldest Christian communities. The Syriacs are the guardians of the language that Jesus spoke - but today their numbers are dwindling, and they are fighting to keep their culture and traditions from extinction.

(Image: Anna Donath of "Momentum" lifts a smoke-candle in a protest in Budapest against proposed changes to the labour code Credit: PETER KOHALMI / AFP)PETER KOHALMI/AFP/Getty Images)

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