UN Casts Doubts On Rohingya Repatriation Plan

A senior official from the UN refugee agency, Volker Turk, has expressed doubts as to whether the proposed timetable for the return of Rohingya refugees to Myanmar is realistic. The first repatriations, under an agreement between Bangladesh and Myanmar, are due to start in January.

In his Christmas Eve message the Pope urged the world not to ignore those "driven from their land".

And we speak to a Somali female writer, Hanna Ali, who's just published a book dwelling on such taboo subjects as extra-marital sex and abortion, in Somali culture.