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Welcome to the latest Global News recorded at 13:00 GMT on Saturday, the 3rd of May. I'm Maddy Savage, bringing you a selection of highlights from across BBC World Service News. Coming up;

A team of international observers are freed in eastern Ukraine, a week after they were kidnapped. But, in Odessa in the south, there is shock after dozens died in a fire following violent clashes on Friday. "In front of me, some people are laying down flowers and actually I'm standing right now on a lot of pavement stones that have been ripped up, left over from last night. Obviously there is a lot of grief, but, uh, at same time, there's a great deal of anger." Plus; Our correspondent reports from the site of a landslide in Afganistan, in which more than 350 people are known to have died. Also; We'll hear what businesses in the U.S. are doing to harness the skills of people with autism. And; How the screening of films from the Nazi era is helping Germans to come to terms with the past. "Everybody should be able to inform himself what kind of books, what kind of movies were produced in that time. And I feel educated enough to qualify them __ __ without explanation, __ without being patronised ...