a suicide bombing in the afghan capital kabul has claimed the lives of at least a0 people. the islamic state group says it carried out the attack on a shia cultural organisation in the west of the city — we report from the scene. this is the building where the explosion happened, and you can see that the building has been almost com pletely that the building has been almost completely destroyed. more than 80 people were injured — there were women and children among the casualties. passengers stranded at stansted overnight have criticised the airport's response to the freezing weather conditions. how the nhs in england raised more than 171i—million—pounds in hospital parking charges last year. and that is down the ground — beautiful from alastair cook. and an unbeaten 244 from alistair cook puts england in control of the 4th ashes test in melbourne. good evening.

a suicide bombing in the afghan capital, kabul, has claimed the lives of at least a0 people , and injured more than 80 others , with women and children among the casualties. the islamic state group says it carried out the attack , which targeted a cultural organisation and news agency, in the western part of the capital. in recent months so—called islamic state has attacked many shia muslim targets , in this area of kabul, where the majority of the city's shia population lives. shia muslim targets , in this area of kabul, where the majority of the city's shia population lives. our correspondent in kabul , zia shahreya , has just sent this report. the force of the explosion is clear to see. among the rubble, relatives desperately search for their loved ones. but there was little left

behind. the bomb went off inside this building, a cultural centre and also home to an afghan news agency. stu d e nts also home to an afghan news agency. students had been marking the 38th anniversary of the soviet invasion of afghanistan. the suicide bomber a p pa re ntly of afghanistan. the suicide bomber apparently has entered through that way, inside this hall, where the seminar was happening. and the hall was full of people, students, female and male from different universities in kabul. translation: and male from different universities in kabul. translationzlj and male from different universities in kabul. translation: i saw many deadin in kabul. translation: i saw many dead in the area. i was looking for my cousin but i could not find his body. not sure what happened to him. the number of dead people has increased. after the explosion, ambulances took the injured to hospitals nearby. this man, one of dozens badly hurt in the explosion. some of the wounded were taken in

for surgery. translation: some of the wounded were taken in for surgery. translationzl some of the wounded were taken in for surgery. translation: a total of 35 dead were registered here, and 20 others wounded. there are men, women and children among the injured. for some waiting outside for news, it was all too much. back in the area to the west of the capital where the bomb went off, armed guards patrol. the initial blast was followed by two other explosions, but no one was hurt in those. so, who was behind the attack was mike so—called islamic state —— behind the attack? so—called islamic state has been behind a number of other attacks on shia targets in recent months. freezing temperatures around the uk

have been causing travel disruption for a second day. around 100 passengers were stranded at stansted airport after a number of flights we re airport after a number of flights were cancelled yesterday, and drivers are being warned of icy conditions in many areas. our correspondent has the latest. hanging around fora correspondent has the latest. hanging around for a flight longer than you expected. it's not much fun, especially when the queues are just getting longer and you find out your flight is now notjust delayed but cancelled. more than 12 hours after sarah's flight was meant to ta ke after sarah's flight was meant to take off, she was still the run will 110w take off, she was still the run will now fly tomorrow. i only found out three hours after my flight was supposed to leave that it was cancelled, and there were no boards to tell us that it was delayed on anything, so it wasjust literally like going back and forwards between the one personnel that was there, kind of thing. i was lining up for

ten hours to try and get a new flight. ten hours to try and get a new flight. did you get any sleep's not really, i think i've been awake for 25 hours. social media reflects the frustration some people here felt last night. 0ne frustration some people here felt last night. one person tweeted it was a shambles, another posted a picture of people sleeping on seats. sta nsted says picture of people sleeping on seats. stansted says it has clear the backlog of stranded passengers and things are returning to normal, but they say there still could be delays because of the weather. and the weather has caused problems elsewhere. in the cairngorms, three climbers had to be rescued after getting lost in blizzard conditions. the rescue took five hours. the wintry weather is not giving away as we're being told to make sure our vehicles are safe for the ride. check your tyres and make sure you have good tread and that they are inflated. that should keep you safe to that —— save on the road. have a breakdown kit with plenty of warm

clothing, a flask, snacks, a shovel and a fully charged mobile phone. today in inverness, people were enjoying the snow, but there was more on the way. then, and the met office is warning that tonight could be the coldest night of the year. a 44—year—old man accused of stabbing a woman to death in a supermarket in skipton has appeared in court. neville hord appeared at leeds crown court and spoke only to confirm his details. he is charged with the murder of 30 road jodie willsher, who was attacked at the store where she was working. —— 30—year—old. police in north london say a woman who was found dead in finsbury park yesterday may have been murdered on christmas eve. the body of the woman, thought to be in her 20s, was discovered in an outbuilding next to a sports pitch. they united eu nation —— the united nations special envoy to syria has

w011 nations special envoy to syria has won that children could be being used as bargaining chips as medical evacuations continue from rebel held areas of the max kiss. more people have left a day after 12 people were allowed to leave one city. a vision —— aid agencies allege those released are being exchanged for ca ptu red released are being exchanged for captured government workers. nhs hospitals in england made a record £174.5 hospitals in england made a record £17a.5 million from car parking charges in the past financial year. the figures obtained through a freedom of information request showed more than half of hospital trusts also charged at least some of their disabled bays. 0ur correspondent has the story. it is shocking, because i come a lot

with my son. the amount we have got to pay, it is really bad. with my son. the amount we have got to pay, it is really badlj with my son. the amount we have got to pay, it is really bad. i don't mind a small fee but i have had occasions where i have spent £20 in one day. it is the hassle of visiting hospital on a regular basis, and this isjust another hassle. no one from the heart of england trust was available today but they gave me a statement saying they know that the costs can be a financial burden to patients and visitors. they say that these have come down in the past year and that the money made is invested in utility bills and the maintenance of car parks. these have been largely abolished in scotland and wales and campaigners think it is time they we re campaigners think it is time they were lifted elsewhere too. you might have to make 50 trips to hospital for cancer treatment. sometimes you need to be there all day which means you might need to pay £30 just to

cover the cost of chemotherapy on that day. it has a big effect on people. today's figures will only raise pressure to cap or end charges in the future. a british medical team is flying to bangladesh to help hundreds of thousands of rohingya refugees who have fled violence in their home country of burma. more than a0 doctors, nurses and firefighters from the uk will spend six weeks in bangladesh tackling an outbreak of diphtheria in the refugee camps. we have to try and stop the disease spreading. it is going to be tough. that was becky platt speaking there. every year, thousands of planning permissions granted for new homes but the properties are not actually built. there are currently 68a,000 valid permissions that haven't been

yet put into effect. the chancellor has set up an urgent review to understand the reasons. in the midst ofan understand the reasons. in the midst of an acute housing shortage, why is the process of building much—needed new home is proving to be so cumbersome. sophie long has been to cla cton cumbersome. sophie long has been to clacton in essex to try to find out. cla cton clacton in essex to try to find out. clacton on sea — like many towns, they need to build hundreds of houses here to provide homes for those that don't have them. in a way thatis those that don't have them. in a way that is sympathetic to those that do. this is a site that got planning permission over two years ago for a 300 homes, but as you can see nothing has been built. one problem is that developers are not building on land where permission has been granted. are fundamental look needs to happen at planning and how it works. the laws are not working. you can't blame developers for exploiting loopholes. what they found here is that they can land bank, get permission with no intention to develop it any time soon, get the permission, put it in

the bank, gabon to the next one and get permission for that. developers say that they find that accusation staggering, that they would be building here now, but this is an example of planning issues stopping house builders from building the homes the country needs. they say: . .. they say:... building is happening but not on the scale required. developers say they are not the one striking their feet. overall, the system is too cumbersome. there are too many things that get put through the planning system that don't need to go through that system. that means that once you have an initial consent, you still need to do a lot of work before you can get on site and start development. nearly eve ryo ne and start development. nearly everyone agrees there is a housing crisis and more homes need to be built. the question is how and where. unblocking the problems in

the planning process has now become a national priority. a couple of miles along the coast is jamie exams. developers don't want to build here. it is the most deprived place in england. transport links are poor, and unemployment is high. the need for new housing is clear. there are a lot of empty houses that could be done up for people who don't have housing. housing is built where there is money for them to be sold so that developers make their money back on expensive homes. they are not putting the money into affordable living. the council says it is taking the lead and community activists are hopeful that change is ahead. we have been talking about this for a5 years. my view is that eve ryo ne this for a5 years. my view is that everyone should have a decent place to live in. council housing is part of it and everybody wants that social housing. and start a housing, stuff like that. the problem is that

local authorities and developers have different priorities. the need to find common ground and get more new homes built quickly now has a new homes built quickly now has a new sense of urgency. swa nsea new sense of urgency. swansea city has just appointed the former sheffield wednesday manager, carlos ca rva hal, as former sheffield wednesday manager, carlos carvahal, as its new boss. the portuguese manager becomes swansea's the the portuguese manager becomes swa nsea's the permanent the portuguese manager becomes swansea's the permanent manager in the space of two years and he replaces paul clement, who was sacked earlier this month. cricket news, and an unbeaten 2aa by alastair cook is helping when to ta ke alastair cook is helping when to take control of the fourth ashes test. they finished the third day on a91-9, a test. they finished the third day on a91—9, a lead of 16a. cup's double century was the highest score by visiting batsmen at the melbourne ground. he now six in the all—time

list of leading test run scorers. england, finally serenity at the mcg. those who have followed them are aware of a wave around the corner, followed perhaps by unwelcome docs. imagine the ripples caused byjoe unwelcome docs. imagine the ripples caused by joe root‘s unwelcome docs. imagine the ripples caused byjoe root‘s misplaced hope. mallon's error was even stranger. he chose not to review. it was a lifeline ignored. jonny bairstow. .. moeen ali try to be carefree and ended up careless. in contrast the minds, the continuing clarity of alastair cook. beyond 150 and then fortu nately alastair cook. beyond 150 and then fortunately just beyond alastair cook. beyond 150 and then fortunatelyjust beyond steve smith, the second time he had dropped him. cup took over management of the innings, driving england into a lead and pushing onto a double century. stuart broad was at first brave and then bowled. he made a 50 that

infuriated the aussies. the total was nearly 500 by the close. kirk had scored more than any other visiting ten batsmen, and he had been at the crease for 10.5 hours, all surrounded by doubts about his future. did you doubt yourself coming into the match?|j future. did you doubt yourself coming into the match? i have doubted myself for 12 years and i will continue that. the longer it goes, the harder it becomes, but i suppose that is why i am quite proud that last night i delivered a performance like that. it is pleasing. it is a shame that it is four weeks too late. attributes the cup's resilience, fitness and concentration. now it will be over to england's bowlers to turn cup's tireless effort into a first victory of this ashes series. the immense power of social media

was once again in evidence this christmas time when a welder from south—west london left as christmas wage packet in a local pub in wimbledon. more than a million people responded to an appeal on twitter and facebook and identified the man so that the pay packet could be returned yesterday. this is the story of a welder, a pub and they lost wage packet. last thursday, after a few hundred people had been here celebrating their christmas parties, at the end of the night, as more brown envelope stuffed with cash was spotted on the floor. i realised it was a wage packet because i used to get a similar packet when i first moved to this country. all they had was the name and £600. the landlord and his wife posted a picture of the envelope on social media that was reposted by hundreds of thousands whojoined in the reposted by hundreds of thousands who joined in the search. a couple

of celebrities re—tweeted it and it went bonkers. my phone was buzzing all the time. messages from all over the world. so much interest in trying to find this guy. people wanted to be kept posted. from canada, america, australia, everywhere. then what happened? lo and behold, yesterday, he walked in the doran said, hi, i believe you have got money. the biggest anti—climax in history. hejust wandered in and said that. the man explained that he whipped out his phone to take pictures of his christmas party with his colleagues and that is probably when his wage slip slipped out of his pocket and under his chair. he didn't notice until about a day later. he hadn't seen the social media posts. it was his son who alerted him. he may have kept the loss choir from his wife to have, as he called it, a stress—free christmas. in a show of gratitude,

he gave a generous tip to see in the new year. there is more throughout the evening on the bbc news channel. we're back with the late news. now one bbc one it, it is time for the news where you are. and on the news channel, the time is just about 6:a9pm, and it is time for me the author. david baldacci, iwould david baldacci, i would like to start by rewinding the clock back to your childhood, when your mother gave you a notebook in which to write stories. had you've always wa nted write stories. had you've always wanted to be a writer?|j write stories. had you've always wanted to be a writer? i was a big reader back then. i was a kid who never shut up. i was telling tall tales all the time, usually to get out of trouble at school. my mum

bought me a journal. she said, why don't you write down some of the stuff you have been talking about? my stuff you have been talking about? my pen hit the paper and there was an epiphany. i can take my imagination, put it on paper and people can read it. i thought, this is so cool. years went by, and i thanked my mum for the gift that changed my life. she said, i'm so glad it worked out, but frankly, i just wanted to shut you up. mums need a bit of peace and quiet but you never stop talking. there you 90, you never stop talking. there you go, it worked out in the end. but in the interim, you became a lawyer, not a writer. how did that happened? i wrote short stories for 15 years, and you can't make a living from that. when i got a story published, they would give me free copies of they would give me free copies of the magazine which would be paid enough. i was writing the whole

time, short stories, novellas, screenplays, and then finally novels. and then you were able to commit to it full—time. fast forward , commit to it full—time. fast forward, dozens of novels later, to your latest, the fix. it tells the story of a man who shoots a woman outside the fbi headquarters and turns the gun on himself. it is our why —— it is a why dunnett rather than two. he has a perfect memory because of a brain trauma that he suffered. he is not a knight in shining armour. he is a sloppy, obese guy with no personal skills, ticks everyone off, and i thought, that would be a great guy. his motivation is simple: he wants to find out the truth, no matter where it takes him. he looks at the scene.

he was a witness. he was walking down the street. he keeps coming back to the scene. it is a lot like hitchcock. he keeps going back, flipping through, did he really see what he thought he saw? throughout the novel, the reader going back and looking at that one scene, i wanted to make it claustrophobic. as a lawyer, i know that eyewitness accou nts lawyer, i know that eyewitness accounts have unreliable. if people remember things, it is all wrong. as you say, he is not your typical hero. what appeals to you so much about him? so many love my characters are fit, well trained, classical heroes was not as a writer, i think if you don't —— so many of my characters. i wanted to write something completely different, and he fitted the bill. he is not your typical hero. i

channel him so easily. he is weird and quirky, and my wife will say, i think i understand why you can write him so easily. what does that tell us him so easily. what does that tell us about you ? him so easily. what does that tell us about you? i was struck by how topical the book is. the murder turns into an issue of national security. you also deal with ices, cyber security — how important is it to you to make the book feel current? i am bound by plausibility. it seems like these days everything is plausible. you can write anything and people will say, i think i read that in a newspaper last week. i am curious about the world and i try to read everything i can, so i take life as it is now and extrapolate it and say, what will it be like in the near future? i can and say, what will it be like in the nearfuture? i can push the envelope and see what is coming down the road. 0ne and see what is coming down the road. one time, i had written a scene that i thought would be over the top. i gave it to a guy to read

it. he said, i don't have to read it. he said, i don't have to read it. i asked why not, and he said, because if you can imagine it, we have already done it. that is chilling. you had a conversation with an intelligence guy, and i know that you talk to members of the fbi and secret service. what do they tell you? they are wonderfully helpful and share a lot of information. sometimes they will say, i will tell you this but it will never end up in the book. and it never does. i play fair. i would not want to be them because it must be hard to sleep at night sometimes. i was struck by how meticulously plotted the novel was, and i wondered, do you start from the outset knowing what will happen, or does the story evolve as you're writing it? it evolves organically. i have never known an ending at the start. i would be typing to the end rather than creating a novel if i knew. everyday is an epiphany. i

might think, what will i do today? and i let me try this, and if it doesn't work, i go back. spontaneity is an integral part of creativity. i think the boring this would come through in the pages. to me, to discover the page as i am writing it, for the reader, i think it will be stunning to them. you sometimes have more than one novel on the go. you have a phenomenal work load, writing two or three novels a year. how do you fit it in? i am obsessive about it. i love to do it. if i didn't, i would about it. i love to do it. if i didn't, iwould have about it. i love to do it. if i didn't, i would have stopped by now. i would go and do something else, but i get up every day and think it is fortunate that i can tell another story. i am a kid with abbeys of paper and story. i am a kid with abbeys of paperand a story. i am a kid with abbeys of paper and a pen and i am doing it from this and putting it down for people to read. i tell aspiring writers, make sure you read it for the right reasons. if you can live

without writing, do something else, because you will not make it. that will get you through the bad times, the rejections and criticism. it is like armour that you put around yourself, that joy of like armour that you put around yourself, thatjoy of writing. you will keep going. nonetheless, how difficult is it to keep coming up with different plots and ideas? nonstop curiosity. i absorb knowledge and information like you wouldn't believe. if you know a lot about a lot of different things, you can bring those elements together, and all ofa can bring those elements together, and all of a sudden, you are writing unique stories. writing is not a job ora unique stories. writing is not a job or a hobby, or even unique stories. writing is not a job ora hobby, or even a unique stories. writing is not a job or a hobby, or even a passion for me, it is a lifestyle. this is who i am. it permeates throughout my entire life. i am sitting in the studio, but i am also looking around and seeing stuff and ideas are coming to me. how do you relax? i love to write. i relax by writing. i

like to get out on the water on the boat. i have a nice family, and it's a nice life. at the end of the day, it is the book in the pen that draws you back? my wife gave me a journal on christmas day. i say to people, never give a writer blank paper on a major holiday, because you will never see them for the rest of the day. david baldacci, it has been a pleasure to talk to you. thank you. snow and ice have caused problems for some of us this week, and it looks like there was more to come. the met office has issued an amber be prepared warning for snow tomorrow. tonight, things will continue to turn cold, a widespread frost, the freezing fog patch, and this weather pushes in from the west. rain and snow. northern

ireland, wales and into the midlands. tomorrow morning, the area of most concern is around the south of most concern is around the south of the pennines, through parts of lancashire, towards west yorkshire. here, you could see up to 15 centimetres of snow on high ground. even at low levels, a fair covering. more likely to be rain and sleet close to the coast. further south, it will all be about the rain. as that falls on cold surfaces, that could give some ice. any way you slice it, tomorrow morning could bring travel issues. the snow will move north through the day and peter out. rain and sleet mixing into it through the day. a few showers towards the south coast, and the temperature is starting to climb in the south—west, 11 celsius. 0n friday night, another weather system

moves in. it will mostly bring rain. as that clears, the sky should brighton on saturday, leaving spells of sunshine. some showery rain at times, particularly down to the south. wet weather likely to fringe its way into the far south. mild to the south, cold to the north. quite windy, and the same on new year's eve. still potentially cold enough for snow on high ground in the north, but generally milder at this stage, with temperatures of faith is —— temperatures of 5—13dc. temperatures don't look particularly low but there is likely to be a strong and chilly breeze. this is bbc news.

i'm reeta chakrabarti. the headlines at 7: at least a1 people are killed in a bomb attack in a cultural centre in the afghan capital kabul — so—called islamic state says it was responsible. more than 80 people were injured. there were women and children among the casualties. this is the building where the explosion happened and you can see the building has been almost completely destroyed. britain braces itself as forecasters predict the coldest night of the year. it comes as ice and sub—zero temperatures cause treacherous driving conditions in some parts. a murder investigation is launched after a woman's body is found in a north london park. in the last few minutes she has been

named. a team of british medics is travelling to bangladesh to help deal with the spread of diphtheria at rohingya muslim refugee camps.