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

I'm Valerie Sanderson and at 13 hours

GMT on Friday the 30th of August,

these are our main stories.

Comila Harris says the US is ready to turn the page on Donald Trump

in her first broadcast interview since winning the Democratic Party's presidential nomination.

Israeli forces say they've killed the Hamas leader and two other Palestinians

as they continue their operation in the West Bank for a third consecutive day.

We're in Jerusalem for the details.

Also in this podcast, tributes are paid to New Zealand's Myri King, who's died at the age of 69. And Britain's new Prime Minister, Kieur Starmermer relocates a portrait of Margaret Thatcher, a predecessor and divisive leader of the Opposition Conservative Party.

So what's the reaction of portrait painter Richard Stone?

If in this circumstance, two people looking at this portrait found it uncertling.

I'd like to think that my portrait of Margaret Thatcher had a presence in that room.

We start with the US presidential election campaign.

Comila Harris in her first TV interview since becoming the Democratic Party nominee

sat down alongside her chosen vice presidential candidate Tim Walsh

on CNN to discuss her bid for the White House and to fight back against the criticism she's faced over the past few weeks.

Ms Harris, whose U.S. Vice President defended how her policy positions on issues such as immigration and fracking had shifted over time,

insisting her values have stayed the same.

The most important and most significant aspect of my policy perspective and decisions is my values have not changed.

You mentioned the Green New Deal.

I have always believed, and I have worked on it it that the climate crisis is real, that it is an

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