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

I'm Jackie Leonard and in the early hours of Monday, the 29th of July,

these are our main stories.

Western countries have urged Israel to show restraint as the government decides how to respond to a deadly attack in the occupied Galan Heights which it's blamed on Hezbollah.

Venezuela's attorney general dismisses suggestions that the presidential election

currently taking place might not have been fair.

At the Paris Olympics, American gymnast Simone Biles has made an impressive return after having to withdraw from much of the

Tokyo games we'll hear about her and the other highlights. Also in this

podcast the Irish author Edna O'Brien best known for her groundbreaking country

girls trilogy has died age 93.

Ireland in many ways it has a great gaiety but alongside that gaiety you always pay the price a great sort of melancholy. We begin in the Middle East. Western diplomats and politicians are scrambling to de-escalate tension between Israel and Hezbollah

following Saturday's rocket strike on the Israeli occupied Golan Heights which killed 12 young people.

As fears grow of a major war, they're urging Israel to show restraint in any military response.

The Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a four-hour emergency meeting of the

security cabinet late on Sunday.

Earlier, the White House also blamed Hezbollah for the attack.

The US Secretary of State Anthony Blinkin repeated the United

States long-held position that it didn't want the conflict to spread.

We're in conversations with the government of Israel.

And again, I emphasize its right to defend its citizens

and our determination to make sure that they're able to do that. But we also don't want to see the

conflict escalate. We don't want to see a spread. That has been one of our goals

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