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Hello and welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service.
We're coming to you live from London.
I'm James Menendez and we're going to start in the Afghan capital, Kabul.
That's mobile phone footage sent to the BBC,
which captured the sound of the emergency services responding to a series of explosions in the city overnight.
Pakistani warplanes bombing both the capital and also the city of Kandahar,
the twin strongholds of the country's Taliban government.
We were all asleep when the plane came in very low.
As soon as I heard the sound of the aircraft, I got up.
I saw the plane descend and drop two bombs.
Then it went back up again.