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

I'm Nick Miles and at 14 hours GMT on Friday the 2nd of February, these are our main stories.

Several people have been killed and hundreds more injured in a massive gas explosion in the

Kenyan capital, Nairobi.

A Malaysian Prime Minister who was jailed for his part in a multi-billion dollar financial scandal

has had his 12-year prison sentence halved.

Also in this podcast, as Ukraine's second city of Kharkiv comes under renewed

attack by Russian missiles we meet the people living and learning underground

running alongside the platform on the metro, there's a corridor of classrooms here when the

sirens wail for an air raid no one has to move.

Later on we hear how strike action is causing severe disruption to public transport in Germany

and we hear a tale of suspected avian espionage.

We begin this podcast in Kenya, where a series of gas explosions in Nairobi have killed at least three people and injured nearly 300. A large area has been turned into a charred landscape.

Officials say hundreds of liquefied petroleum gas or LPG canisters had gone up in flames igniting a huge ball of fire. This man is one of the

injured.

I got burned by an exploding gas canister as I was trying to escape. It exploded right in front of me and the impact

knocked me down and the flames engulfed me. I am lucky that I was strong enough to

get away. have gathered here just trying to understand what exactly happened.

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