Hundreds of Afghans protested in the capital Kabul on Saturday against alleged fraud in last week's presidential runoff, forcing a closure of the airport road amid escalating tensions over what Western officials had hoped...

1. Wide of parade with Afghan President Hamid Karzai in open-top vehicle

2. Karzai stood up in open-top ve
hicle
3. Military officers standi
ng in line
4. Karzai waving from o
pen-top vehicle
5....

1. Wide of Indian Air Force plane on tarmac

2. Wide of coffin being brought out by sol
diers
3. Wide of officials gathered to receive
the bodies
4. Wide of soldiers ca
rrying a coffin
5. Soldiers...

1. Wide of scene of landslide with large crowd of rescuers

2. Excavator cleaning rubble and
earth
3. Mid of men digging through rubble
and earth
4. Tilt down from mountainside to
people digging
5. Mid of...

Afghan voters began queueing up at polling stations nationwide on Saturday, defying a threat of violence by the Taliban, to cast ballots in what promises to be the nation's first democratic transfer of power.

Amid tight...

Afghan voters turn out in large numbers, braving Taliban threats to choose a successor to President Hamid Karzai in the countrys first democratic transfer of power as US led forces wind down their 13 year war

Char Bolek - about 20 kms West of Mazar i Sharif and 10km East of Char Gumbaz, scene of recent fighting

1. Various vehicles including tank head off down
road.
2. Tank driving down road, militia...

Afghan troops stepped up security, erecting more checkpoints, searching cars and banning trucks from the streets of the capital Kabul ahead of the presidential elections on Saturday.

The heightened security came after...

1. Plane arriving at Kabul international airport carrying UK Defence Secretary John Reid

2. Plane turning on r
unway
3. Close shot of plane with Royal Air Force writt
en on side
4. UK Defence...

1. Various of US Defence Secretary Robert Gates arriving in Kabul and being greeted by US army officials

US Defence Secretary Robert Gates arrived in Kabul on Tuesday to deliver the message to Afghan and US troops that...

Night shots

1. Various of security at scene of attack near Canadian em
bassy
2. Blood
on ground
3. Afg
han police car
s
Daylight shots
4. Various of security at scene of att
ack near Canadian...

This Week In History 11/1 - 11/7 (Footage by Getty Images)

Bagram/Kabul, 27 Feb 2007

B
agram
1. Wide of area near
blast site
2. Various shots of relatives
carry
ing bodies
Kabul
3. Various of US Vice President Dick Cheney arriving with Afgh
an President Hamid...

1. Wide of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh walking toward cameras and shaking hands

2. Tilt up from close of hand shake to Karzai, pull out to wide of Karzai and Singh turning to...

00:00 Convoy of cars carrying US Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage arrives at museum

00:05 Armitage gets out of car m
useum
00:11 Armitage entering muse
um grounds
00:16 Various of Armitage inside...

1. Afghan President Hamid Karzai (left), Turkish President Abdullah Gul (centre) and Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari walking into summit room

2. Pakistani delega
tion
3. Wide of su
mmit room
4. Turk
ish...

1. Afghan President Hamid Karzai exits limousine and is greeted by U.S. Secretary of Defence, Donald Rumsfeld. The men walk upstairs into the building.

Afghan leader Hamid Karzai met with US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld at...

1. Wide of Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf arriving to meeting with Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero - they shake hands and pose for photographs

2. Wide of Musharraf and Rodriguez...

1. Afghan troops patrolling near where Monday's explosion happened

2. Wide of crowd at scene of b
last
3. Various of vehicles damaged by
explosion
4. Wide of crowd at
scene of blast
5. Inj
ured...

Pakistan's prime minister arrived in Kabul on Saturday for a one-day visit to discuss efforts to start a peace process with the Taliban and energy projects aimed at alleviating chronic power shortages in both...

1. Various of Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Afghan officials walking past camera

2. Wide of Karzai, Afghan government officials, international diplomats and NATO officials attending a memorial service in the...

1. Sergei Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister and Hamid Karzai, Afghan President sitting together

2. Close-up of La
vrov
3. Close-up
of Karzai
4. Russian offic
ials in meeting
5. Afghan officials si
tting next to...

1. Wide of site of blast with police vehicles and onlookers

2. Mid of wounded policeman being picked up from gr
ound
3. Wide of damag
ed vehicle
4. Police vehicle spee
ding along road
5. Wi
de of...

1. Various of coalition convoy at scene of attack

2. Various of military vehi
cles
3. Various of coalition troops inspecting damaged vehicl
e ++MUTE++
4.
Wide of scene
5. Various
of damaged vehicle...