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

I'm Valerie Sanderson and in the early hours of Monday the 26th of August,

these are our main stories. The Lebanese group Hezbollah says it's completed its retaliation

against Israel for the assassination of a senior leader after a day that saw

hundreds of rockets and drones fired across the border. Telegram has condemned the arrest of

the rockets and drones fired across the border. Telegram has condemned the arrest in France of its billionaire founder

Paral durov over abuses on the platform.

Also in this podcast protests take place in Germany against immigration

after the authorities say a Syrian man arrested following a knife attack is

suspected of belonging to the Islamic State Group.

This year there have been four deaths on Western Europe's highest mountain.

Essentially, Mont Blanc is, in simple terms, melted.

Permophos is melted, the glasses are melting and retreating,

and we are seeing more rock full,

we are seeing more exposed crevasses.

So is Mont Blanc becoming more than than dangerous.

We start in the Middle East which has seen one of the biggest clashes in more than 10 months of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah.

In the early hours of Sunday, Hezbollah... facilities between Israel and Hezbollah and Hezbollah.

In the early hours of Sunday, Hezbollah launched hundreds of rockets and drones.

It came after the Israeli military said it had carried out a wave of preemptive strikes

in Lebanon to thwart a large-scale missile and drone attack

by the group. The longstanding leader of Hezbollah Hassan Azrala,

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