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

I'm Andrew Peach and in the early hours of Tuesday, the 2nd of April,

these are our main stories.

A senior Iranian Revolutionary Guard commander is among at least seven people killed in a suspected

Israeli air strike on a building in the Syrian capital.

Our international editor Jeremy Bowen gives us his assessment.

I think they've seen the way that both Iran and Hezbollah have been pretty cautious.

They do not want to escalate this to an all-out war.

So perhaps Israelis are thinking, well that gives us a bit more latitude to push.

The Kremlin rejects the media report linking Russian agents to a mystery illness that's affected

US diplomats and widespread anger in Ghana after a 63 year old traditional priest

marries a 12 year old girl. Also in this podcast the Harry Potter novelist JK Rolling challenges Scotland's new hate

crime law inviting police to arrest her if they think she's committed an offense.

And why have mindfulness when you could have this Dutch trend?

Nixon is a verb that comes from the noun Nix, which translates to nothing in English,

so it's the art of being effortlessly aimless.

Iran has promised a decisive response after one of its consulate buildings was destroyed by a suspected Israeli

airstrike in the Syrian capital Damascus.

Hosseinagbari is the Iranian ambassador to Syria.

Definitely the Zionist regime knows better than anyone that such crimes and violating international law

will have its response at the appropriate time.

The country's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps says seven of its members died in the strike including a senior commander.

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