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

I'm Janet Jalil and in the early hours of Friday the 24th of November,

these are our main stories.

A temporary halt in the fighting between Israel and Hamas is due to begin shortly, paving the way for a hostage and prisoner exchange.

War crimes prosecutors in the Hague have accused the detained former president of Kosovo,

Hashim Thatchi, of tampering with witnesses.

A woman has accused New York City's mayor,

Eric Adams, of sexual assault 30 years ago. Also in this podcast there's been another delay in the rescue operation to free dozens of

workers trapped in a tunnel in northern India.

I was speaking with one tunneling emergency expert here who was saying just how

deeply frustrating it is to get so close and there was this hope and expectation that the men would be able to be

rescued and the plague of rats that's over running parts of the Australian

state of Queensland. As we record this podcast, it looks as if some of the hostages who've been held in Gaza

will be released in a few hours time as part of a deal between Israel and Hamas which will see fighting

paused for four days.

Palestinian prisoners will be freed from Israeli prisons in exchange.

Qatar, which broke the deal, confirmed that a list of names of those being swapped has

been agreed.

A foreign ministry spokesman in Doha, Majed Al An Ansari, said an initial group of 13 hostages held by Hamas would be released.

The first patch of civilians to be released from Gaza will be around 4 p.m. of the same day.

They will be 13 in number all women and children and those hostages who are from

the same families will be put together within the same patch.

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