Thousands of Afghans have poured onto the streets of Kabul, protesting violently against the film mocking the Prophet Mohammed.

The angry crowd set fire to police cars and storage containers. Some of the violence centred on Jalalabad road, where NATO and US military bases are located, Kabul police chief Mohammad Ayoub Salangi said.

Gunmen from the crowd opened fire at police, but no one was hurt, police said. “We have not shot back and we won’t,” said Mr Salangi. Police say the crowds were shouting “Death to America!” and “Death to those people who have made a film and insulted our Prophet!”.

Men grabbed rocks from the roadside and lobbed them at Camp Phoenix, a US military base that lies along the Jalalabad road.

There were also reports that one protester had been killed and two wounded in disturbances in Pakistan.

The injured were hurt in an exchange of fire with police in Warai, in the Upper Dir district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

Police said a crowd of about 800 had set fire to a police station, a magistrate’s house and the local press club. Meanwhile, in Indonesia, protesters angered over the film demonstrated in the cities of Medan and Bandung, but there was no violence reported.

Over the weekend in the central Java town of Solo, protesters stormed KFC and McDonald’s restaurants, forcing customers to leave.

The violence came as the head of Hizbollah called for days of protests in Lebanon over the video. Sheik Hassan Nasrallah said the Shi’ite militant group is organising five days of demonstrations across the country this week.

The first of those protests is expected to start in the capital Beirut today.

He said protesters around the world should not only “express anger” at US embassies but urge leaders to act.

He called for an international agreement making it illegal to attack any divine religion.

In a televised speech, Mr Nasrallah told his followers: “We should tell our rulers in the Arab and Muslim world that it is ‘your responsibility in the first place’ and since you officially represent the governments and states of the Muslim world you should impose on the United States, Europe and the whole world that our prophet, our Quran and our holy places and honour of our Prophet be respected.”

Former prime minister Tony Blair today urged politicians and religious leaders to condemn the protests sweeping the Muslim world.

He dismissed the film as “laughable” and insisted the response was “wrong”.

The video, Innocence Of Muslims, produced in the US, portrays the prophet as a fraud, womaniser and homosexual, and has caused furious demonstrations.

It was published on the internet and the US government has condemned the film.

The protests began on Tuesday last week when people climbed the US embassy walls in the Egyptian capital of Cairo and tore down the American flag.

The US ambassador to Libya was killed in an attack at an American consulate in the eastern city of Benghazi.

After days of anti-American violence, the US has urged vigilance and Western embassies across the world are on high alert.

On Sunday, around 350 people chanted slogans at a rally outside the US embassy in London.

A small group of protesters burned a US flag outside the embassy in Istanbul and in Pakistan there were protests in more than a dozen cities.

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