Welcome to the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Chris Berrow and at 13 GMT on Wednesday the 31st of July.

These are our main stories.

Hamas says its political leader Ismail Hananeer has been killed in an Israeli strike in

Tehran. Iran vows revenge.

Carmelaharis takes the fight against Donald Trump to the crucial state of Georgia,

and small but important, a rise in interest rates in Japan.

Also in the podcast how Indonesia wants to wean young people off cigarettes and it kind of gives us an

excuse to treat them poorly because you know if we have a low opinion of of their

intelligence then you know and perhaps we can abuse them and get away with it.

Are goldfish memories really that bad?

But first. We start with sounds from Tehran.

We start with sounds from Tehran University this morning as demonstrators marched holding photographs of Ishmaelhaneer, the Hamas political

leader who was killed in the city. After what Hamas has said was an Israeli strike on the house

where he was staying just hours after attending the inauguration of the new Iranian

president. These Palestinians in the West Bank City of Ramallah condemned the

killing.

Frankly the news was shocking for all Palestinian people at home and abroad.

It was a cowardly operation and another crime to add to the occupation's record of assassinations of resistance fighters

Mujahideen and leaders of the Palestinian people.

There will be a response. There will be a response, a strong response and also a response from Lebanon.

There will also be a reaction to the crime in Lebanon yesterday.

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