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

I'm Paul Moss and in the early hours of Wednesday the 31st of July, these are our main stories.

Israel says it carried out an air strike in Beirut,

targeting a Hezbollah commander,

when they held responsible for last Saturday's attack

on the Golan Heights.

There's been violence on the streets of Venezuela following the results of Sunday's

presidential election, which gave Nicholas Maduro a third term, and rescue teams in Southern

India have been struggling in heavy rain to find survivors of massive

landslides which have killed more than 120 people.

Also in this podcast, as a career law enforcement officer, I cannot defend why that roof was not better secured.

The new head of the US Secret Service offers an abject apology for its failure to stop Donald Trump's would be assassin.

There wasn't any waiting around for a claim of responsibility just minutes after an explosion was heard in Beirut.

Israel issued a statement saying it had launched an air strike on the Lebanese capital.

It later said it had eliminated the Hezbollah military

commander for A Chukra, who had held responsible for a rocket attack on the Golan Heights

area last Saturday, which killed 12 young people.

Our correspondent in Lebanon is Hugo Bechega.

We haven't had any reaction from Hezbollah yet.

Obviously, we're waiting to hear what they have to say, what they're going to do. I mean I think it's almost inevitable that there will be some kind of retaliation. But we had a statement from the Israeli military saying that Fowad Shukkha was killed.

They called it a precise operation.

They described him as the right-hand man to Hassan Nasrallah, who is the leader of Hezbollah.

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