Kazakh miners on hunger strike

More than twenty workers are being treated in hospital in southern Kazakstan after taking part in a mass hunger strike to protest against unpaid wages.

Campaigners say over a thousand workers at a large phosphate mine in the town of Zhanatas have been fasting for more than a week.

They are demanding more than two years of unpaid wages, and say they've been living off food coupons because the local authorities don't have the money to pay them.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service