Welcome to the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Chris Berrow and in the early hours of Sunday the 4th of August,

these are our main stories.

Venezuela's opposition leader Maria Karina Machado has come out of hiding and attended a mass

rally in Caracas.

There's been international condemnation of an Ull-Shabaab Islamist militant attack in Somalia's capital

Mogadishu which killed at least 37 people.

Several Western nations, including the United States, have urged their citizens to leave Lebanon

amid rising tension in the Middle East. Also in the podcast a remarkable story from Romania.

The bare population is increasing daily, so if we don't do something, we will have tens of thousands of bears in Romania.

After a hiker was killed by a bear, a new law has passed allowing 500 of the animals to be killed over the next year and a half.

We begin in Venezuela.

That's the sound of demonstrators taking to the streets of Caracas rallying against

the government.

President Nicholas Maduro says he won last week's presidential election but the opposition leader Maria

Karina Machado came out of days of hiding to accuse him of rigging the result

making a surprise appearance on a truck she held a banner reading Venezuela has won. Ms Machado

says there's evidence that the opposition candidate Edmondo Gonzalez won the

poll. This protester spoke to the BBC. There was a lot of fear to come

today. There has been a lot of violent repression in the last few days.

So it is wonderful that so many people have come out.

We are living in a dictatorship that is trying to destroy Venezuela.

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