In India, a strike by gig workers threatens New Year's Eve deliveries. Live from the UK,

this is the Marketplace Morning Report from the BBC World Service. I'm Gideon Long. Good morning.

Tens of thousands of app-based gig workers in India are staging a nationwide strike

that's likely to impact food delivery services on the final

day of the year. They're demanding better wages and improvement in safety conditions and better

social security cover. The BBC's Amber Asson Etirajan has more. There are an estimated 10 million

delivery workers in India as part of the so-called gig economy. The staff say they are criss-crossing

long hours on the road in India's mega cities such as Delhi and Mumbai, and they should be given

a minimum monthly salary and insurance. The strike has been time to coincide with one of the

busiest days of the year for delivery drivers, New Year's Eve.

Several social media content creators have urged people to boycott the apps for a day to support

gig workers. Amber Asen Etirajan reporting. Protesters in Bolivia have clashed with police over a government

decision to scrap fuel subsidies.

Under a new scheme, gasoline prices have almost doubled, as the BBC's Clitsia Sala reports.

Police in the Bolivian capital La Paz dispersed the crowd with tear gas and rubber bullets as demonstrators set off small dynamite charges.

They tried to break through the police cordon

to reach the central square,

where many of Bolivia's government buildings are located.

Protesters are opposed to the scrapping of a subsidy

that had kept petrol and diesel prices frozen

for more than 20 years.

Klitsia seller. Let's do the numbers.

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