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

I'm Janet Jalil and at 13 hours GMT on Thursday the 4th of July,

these are main stories.

The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah has launched a new barrage of

cross-border fire at Israel over Wednesday's killing of a senior Hezbollah commander.

President Biden meets leading Democrats at the White House as he fights for his political life

after his faltering debate performance last week.

Strong winds and heavy rain hit the Cayman Islands as Hurricane Beryl makes its way towards

the coast of Mexico.

Also in this podcast, has she inherited this from you and your wife?

Not really, we don't play chess at all.

Really? You don't play?

This is completely up and accidentally.

The nine-year-old girl who is now England's youngest international chess star. International Chester.

We start this podcast in Northern Israel. This was a sound on Thursday across one of the world's most volatile borders as a

Lebanese militant group Hezbollah fired more than 200 rockets and explosive drones in retaliation

for Israel's killing of one of its senior commanders a day earlier. The land in

Northern Israel and Southern Lebanon is tender dry, ready to be consumed by the

sparks that fly on an almost daily basis between these two sworn enemies.

A concern for all those who watch this region and fear the cross-border exchanges

could erupt into a full-blown war, not just between a heavily armed Hezbollah and Israel,

but also drawing in Hezbollah's backer, Iran also supports Hamas, which earlier

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