Hello and welcome to NewsHour live from the BBC World Service in London. I'm Rebecca Kesb.

Within the past hour, black smoke has emerged from the tiny chimney above the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican.

That means the process of choosing the next Pope will continue tomorrow.

In 30 minutes, we'll hear from our correspondent

in St. Peter's Square. First, though, can the governments of India and Pakistan be urged to turn

back from the brink as tensions escalate in the region following India's strikes on Pakistan

administered Kashmir and Pakistan itself overnight.

India says the strikes were revenge for what they allege

was Pakistan's state involvement in a deadly terror attack in Indian-administered Kashmir last month.

Pakistan denies that charge.

World leaders and senior diplomats have been calling for both sides to show caution

and restraint, but will that be enough to dampen the flames on what the Pakistani government

today described as a regional inferno? The attacks began in the early hours of the morning.

These local residents in Punjab described what they saw.

It was 1245 at night. We were sleeping when a drone came. It was right above us, just a little

higher than usual. Then three more drones appeared. They were attacking the mosque. They hit the mosque directly, destroyed its courtyard,

the administrative office in front of the mosque and the roof.

Everything was crushed.

Fear and terror spread in people.

People had gone out into the fields.

In the open, just like that, the night passed.

Well, the precise details of the attacks are unclear and disputed by both sides. Pakistan says

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