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

I'm Alex Ritson, and in the early hours of Monday, the 31st of July, these are our main stories.

West African states give Niger's co-leaders a week to restore civilian rule or face possible

intervention. At least 44 people have been killed, and more than 100 wounded,

in what's thought to be a suicide bomb attack in northwestern Pakistan.

And the Afghan Taliban publicly burn confiscated musical instruments, saying they cause moral corruption.

Also in this podcast, Ukraine's president says the war is gradually coming home to Russia

after the latest drone attack on Moscow. And so the stairwell we are walking down is almost

identical to the one that's on sale. Sellers are saying that this could become a living space,

an office space somewhere to hang out. Could this be the stairway to a heavenly London home?

We start in Niger, where co-leaders were told on Sunday that they have one week to hand back

power to the president they deposed last week. The demand was made by the regional block of 15

West African states known as ECOWAS, which is threatening to use force, unless Muhammad Basoum

is reinstated. ECOWAS also imposed economic and travel sanctions on the new military leaders

in Niger, one of the world's poorest countries. I asked Africa, original editor, Richard Hamilton,

whether this tough talk from ECOWAS would work. This is an unusually tough response from ECOWAS.

They've not done that in previous coups in Marley and Burkina Faso, and they did create a

regional security force, so they could go in and actually take military action. They've

imposed a no-fly zone, they've closed borders, and though many other West African countries have

turned towards the military, Niger was actually relatively stable under President Basoum,

but thousands of people protested in the AMA outside the French embassy, and they were

brandishing pro-Russian slogans and placards and ripped out the French embassy plaques. So it's

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