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Hello, welcome to the program.
This is News Hour from the BBC World Service.
I'm Paul Henley.
We're coming to you live from London.
Coming up a bit later on, President Putin says Russia has no plan to attack Europe.
Russia does not plan to attack Europe.
We have never planned it.
But if Europe wants to hear it from us, we can put it on paper.
Not everyone knows convinced we'll be hearing later from France.
First,
the sheer scale of the fire in eight towers of a Hong Kong housing development was unmistakable.
Smoke and flames engulfed high-rise blocks shrouded during renovations in bamboo scaffolding and green protective mesh.