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

I'm Alex Ritzen and in the early hours of Wednesday the 29th of November

these are our main stories.

No longer deep inside the Indian Himalayas.

All 41 construction workers trapped for more than two weeks are safely rescued.

As more prisoners and hostages are exchanged on the fifth day of a truce, a top UN official, says there's only one solution to the conflict between Israel and Hamas.

Violence and military solutions are not going to achieve the much-needed political solution that actually leads to a peaceful future for

both Israelis and Palestinians. There's no way out.

And Sierra Leone's government admits the unrest of recent days was an attempted military coup.

Also in this podcast Finland closes its border with Russia claiming Moscow is attacking it with asylum seekers and

when I started diving I was always the only black person on the boat whether it's your

witsuit not fitting whether it's someone asking you going to dive with all of that hair?

My friends would also say,

why do you do white people things?

We hear from South Africa's first female black dive

instructor and one of the BBC's top 100 women. There is joy in India where 41 construction workers have emerged from a collapsed tunnel

in the Himalayas after being trapped for 17 days.

There were scenes of jubilation and celebration as the freed men, low-wage workers

from some of the poorest parts of the country were finally pulled alive through a pipe.

Chodary's son was one of those rescued.

Sir,

I am very happy.

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