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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Nick Mars and in the early hours of Saturday, the 21st of October, these are our main stories.

An American mother and daughter have become the first hostages to be freed by Hamas, out

of the 200 or so seas during the Islamist bloody attacks inside Israel.

With Israel still pounding Gaza, the Palestinian Red Crescent says Israeli forces have ordered

the evacuation of a hospital, said to be sheltering more than 2,000 displaced civilians.

In other news, a third close associate of Donald Trump has pleaded guilty to taking part

as an attempt to falsify the 2020 election results.

Also in this podcast, it's fashionable to admire the opera house, built to epitomize the

old sailing ships.

It's an architect's dream and a challenge in curves to the straight glass and steel structures

that now make the skyline.

The Sydney Opera House, one of the most famous buildings in the world, celebrates its fifth

birthday.

The U.S. President Joe Biden says he's overjoyed at the release of two American hostages being

held in Gaza.

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