it is 8:00am in singapore, midnight in london, and 7:00pm in new york, where police say a man detonated a bomb close to the city's main bus terminal during the morning rush hour. four people, including the bomber, were injured in the small explosion in central manhattan. a 27—year—old man originally from bangladesh has been arrested. 0ur correspondent nick bryant reports from new york. 7:20am in the morning, the height of the rush hour, and security camera footage of an underpass at new york's busiest bus terminal. this low—tech bomb was detonated deliberately, in the hope of killing monday morning commuters. the failed suicide bomber had strapped the home—made device to his body with velcro, but he was the only person it seriously injured. coming at such a busy time, in such a congested place, the intent appears to have been to cause mass casualties. the port authority bus terminal serves 65 million passengers a year, but only three other people were treated for minor injuries. what the authorities are calling a terror attack could have been so much worse. thank god the perpetrator did not achieve his ultimate goals. thank god our first responders were there so quickly, to address the situation and to make sure people were safe. this is the suspect, akayed ullah, a 27—year—old immigrant from bangladesh, who arrived here in 2011. he would never have made it into the country, claimed the white house, under president trump's proposed immigration limitations. we must protect our borders, we must ensure that individuals entering our country are not coming to do harm to our people, and we must move to a merit—based system of immigration. back in new york, a quick round of instagrams, and then the city moved on. what is remarkable is that, within two hours of attack, new york city has pretty much returned to normal. there is a road closure here, but the subways are all open, and people are going about their business. this attack failed to cause death, and it failed to cause much disruption. the authorities believe the failed bomber acted alone. and it increasingly looks like he was inspired at not direct did by the group that calls itself the islamic state —— inspired but not directed. let's take a look at some of the day's other news. three women who claim they were sexually harassed by donald trump have called on the us congress to investigate allegations of his misconduct. the white house has repeatedly rejected the women's accusations, which first came to light during last year's presidential race. rajini vadiyanthan has more. these three women are accusing the most powerful men in the world of sexual misconduct. he first spoke out last year, but in the wake of the harvey weinstein scandal they are now calling on congress to investigate president trump. in an objective setting, they would have never returned. jessica leeds, who was at the news conference, says she was assaulted by mr trump decades ago, while she was sitting next to him on a flight. the next thing i know, trump is over me like a wet blanket. and he is kissing, and he's fondling and everything, and the next thing i realised was that he was putting his hand up my skirt. i grabbed my purse and went to the back of the aeroplane. it was after the release of this tape, where mr trump can be heard bragging about groping women, that more than a dozen accusers came forward with allegations of sexual misconduct. all i can say is it's totally fake news. it's fake, it's made—up stuff, and it's disgraceful, what happens, but that happens in the world of politics, john. this point of wants to sue him for defamation. no man is above the law, including the president of the united states. in the past week alone, three members of congress have been forced to resign over accusations of sexual misconduct. in this current climate, many are asking why the same pressure hasn't been applied at the gates of the white house. but many voters simply are not concerned. remember, donald trump won the election in spite of these allegations, which he denies. but for these women it does matter, because donald trump is president of the united states. it left me feeling very gross, very dirty... they want to raise these allegations in hopes that in some way he will be held accountable. also making news this hour: donald trump has recorded an audio message for a republican senate candidate accused of sexual misconduct, on the eve of the election. the us president has thrown his political weight fully behind former alabama judge roy moore, who is vying with democrat doug jones for the seat. the race remains too close to call, a day before people go to the polls. the french president, emmanuel macron, has again criticised donald trump's decision to pull out of the paris climate change accord. he described the move as aggressive, and said america should respect its initial pledge to support the agreement. he was speaking on the eve of the one planet climate summit in paris. you know, you have more than 190 countries as negotiators. i am not ready to renegotiate with so many people. i am sorry, around the table. when you sign a treaty, you have to respect it. the us is a great government, is a great country. the us did sign the paris agreement. it is extremely aggressive to decide on its own just to leave. and no way to push the others to renegotiate, because one decided to leave. i am sorry to say that. heavy snow blanketing northern europe has caused transport chaos across much of the continent. hundreds of flights have been cancelled at amsterdam's schiphol airport. in france, 32 regions have been placed on an emergency orange alert, as a storm nicknamed ana battered the atlantic coast. the danger from the wildfires that have ravaged so much of southern california is still not easing. the focus now is on this blaze which threatens the city of santa barbara. firefighters have been battling a series of fires for a week. more than 200,000 people have been forced from their homes. in the pakistani city of quetta, hundreds of members of the minority hazara community have been killed in recent years, targeted by extremists for their belief in shia islam. the solution, say the authorities, is tightly controlled army checkpoints at the entrance to the two districts where hazaras live. but many in the community say they have been made prisoners in their own homes. secunder kermani reports from quetta. hundreds of hazara men and boys are taking part in an annual shia ceremony. they are commemorating the killing of the prophet muhammad's grandson. along with the martyrs of the past, it is a day to remember those in the community murdered, in the dozens of anti— shia attacks in recent yea rs. the dozens of anti— shia attacks in recent years. this cemetery in the hazara district is where nearly 1000 of those big lines are buried. 0ver a dozen hazaras have been killed in and around quetta in this year alone. in the past, the annual death toll was far higher but the reduction in violence has come at a cost. hazaras are now living in ghettos, scared that if they step out of their own areas, this is where they will end up. mari abad district is populated almost entirely by hazaras. to prevent attacks, streets leading here from elsewhere in the city have either been walled off or are controlled by army checkpoints. the checkpoints are for the safety of residents, but they are not popular. translation: yes, violence here has come down. but we can't go anywhere. we can't do business here. we are living in a cage. leaving mari abad can prove deadly. hazaras, said to be descendants of the mongols, are easily identifiable from their distinct facial features. this easily identifiable from their distinct facialfeatures. this man was shot five times last month on a trip to the city centre. he tells me he went to buy vegetables for his market stall. everybody else in the car was killed, he says. now i will never leave mari abad again. for many young hazaras, sport is a way to escape their surroundings. free—riding is becoming increasingly popular amongst teenagers. this makes me forget about all of this. i feel like i have dreams, i can fly, ican do feel like i have dreams, i can fly, i can do anything. parents are afraid of losing their children. they won't permit us to go anywhere, so they won't permit us to go anywhere, so that is why we are trapped in here, like, our own home. the more hazaras are forced to stay within their own areas, the less, they fear, they will interact with other communities. in trying to keep them safe, the authorities may be deepening the divisions within the city. it is being called a potential game—changer. scientists say a drug that suppresses the faulty gene behind huntington's disease has been successfully tested in humans, and it could be the biggest breakthrough in the neuro—degenerative diseases for 50 years. huntingdon‘s is incurable, and kills most sufferers within 20 years of diagnosis. there is also a 50% chance that they will pass the condition on to their children. earlier i spoke to bridget lyon, who lives in wellington, in new zealand. she comes from a family of seven generations affected by huntington's disease. she also inherited the gene, and told me how that is affecting her life. well, i am still presymptomatic, which means i don't have the disease. when you have a predictive test to find out if you have the gene, which means you are 100% likely to develop the disease, but you can live, save for example, i am probably going to get the disease quite strongly in about five years, but right now i am just... i have memory problems, anxiety problems, and basically just to memory problems, anxiety problems, and basicallyjust to live with the fear of the next generation of my family getting the disease. and it has been in yourfamily, as we family getting the disease. and it has been in your family, as we said in our introduction to you, for seven generations. what kind of impact has that had on your life, and your mother's, whose illness you documented, for a number of months? so she... my mum grew up with her mother having huntington's disease, so mother having huntington's disease, so there was a lot of shame around the end, and people thought she was an alcoholic. they didn't understand it at all. then with my mum, she decided to become an advocate for the disease, to speak out about it, and to tell everyone she could about it, because she believed that, if people knew more about it, there would be less shame. so we decided to make the documentary so that the debilitating and horrifying experience of having huntington's was turned into something empowering. what are your thoughts now, when you think about your future, and that of the next generation of your family? well, we are generation of your family? well, we a re really not generation of your family? well, we are really not very hopeful community, the huntington's community. we usually sit around being told that we are not allowed to be hopeful. even when there are breakthroughs, as they have been in the past, we read up and find out that we are not allowed to be hopeful about this, it is really, you know, potentially not going to work. and also, over the last ten yea rs, work. and also, over the last ten years, anything that they find out about huntington's disease has made it more and more complicated and complex, and we havejust it more and more complicated and complex, and we have just even up over the years on there being any kind of breakthrough that might affect us. so today we are a bit confused, because we are told that we can actually have hope today. which is remarkable, and a real... yes, profoundly amazing. which is remarkable, and a real... yes, profoundly amazinglj which is remarkable, and a real... yes, profoundly amazing. i mean, that was going to be my next question to you. how do you feel about this news that potentially there is now the ability to suppress there is now the ability to suppress the faulty gene that causes huntington's disease? so myself and the next generation of my family have been on a kind of a race with the new... all the studies, and all the new... all the studies, and all the scientific enquiry into huntington's. and we kind of figured that we would this out, that we would all get huntington's, and that we would get it too early for us to be saved by any kind of treatment or cure. so the scenario we find ourselves in now is that we might... we could potentially, you know, be helped by this treatment. and it is very ha rd to helped by this treatment. and it is very hard to get our heads around. you are watching newsday on the bbc. still to come on the programme: why big brother is doing more than just watching you in china. also on the programme: making a splash in hollywood. the fairy—tale romance the shape of water has seven golden globe nominations. we will look ahead to next month's awards ceremony. john lennon was shot at the entrance to the dakota building, in the centre of new york. there's been a crowd here standing in more or less silent vigil. and the flowers have been piling up. the 14th ceasefire of this war ended at the walls of the old city of dubrovnik. this morning, witnesses said shells were landing every 20 seconds. people are celebrating the passing of a man they hold responsible for hundreds of deaths and oppression. elsewhere, people have been gathering to mourn his passing. imelda marcos, the widow of the former president of the philippines, has gone on trial in manila. she's facing seven charges of tax evasion. she pleaded not guilty. the prince and princess of wales are to separate. a statement from buckingham palace said the decision had been reached amicably. this is newsday on the bbc. i'm rico hizon in singapore. welcome back. i'm babita sharma in london. the headlines this hour: a man with a pipe—bomb strapped to his body has set off an explosion in new york, injuring himself and three passers—by. he is now in police custody. three women who say they were sexually harassed by president trump have called on the us congress to investigate the allegations. a chinese climber has died while performing one of these trademark daredevil skyscraper stunts. he had amassed thousands of followers on social networks for his dramatic short video, showing him perched atop tall buildings without the use of any safety equipment. more on this story on our website. let's take a look at some front pages from around the world. the gulf news leads on president putin's trip to the middle east and north africa, where he met egyptian leader president sisi. mr putin is planning to partially withdraw russian troops from syria, according to the paper. the south china morning post reports on protests outside the legislative council building in hong kong. barricades have been put up after demonstrators held an overnight vigil. the protestors are angry at rules to curb filibustering, it is a way of delaying or stopping new legislation. and the financial times says plans from president trump to cut taxes have been met with international hostility. the paper says finance ministers from europe's five largest economies have written to the white house, warning that the plans could undermine trade. it's estimated that in just three years time, there will be close to 600 million cctv cameras in china. and they will be doing more than just watching you. many are fitted with artificial intelligence, including facial recognition technology. it's part of what china is calling "the world's largest camera surveillance network". john sudworth has been given exclusive access to one police control room, in the city of guiyang. in this city, big brother now has the darter on his side. —— data. from their new high—tech control room, the police are keen to show me how it works. they add my photo to their vast digital catalogue containing the image of every resident. let's see how long it ta kes you resident. let's see how long it takes you to find me. thank you very much. let's go. china is rapidly building the world ‘s largest and most sophisticated surveillance network. cameras with built in artificial intelligence are already in widespread use. someone can read faces, others can estimate people ‘s age, ethnicity and gender. and it's those facial recognition cameras that are now looking out for me. the bank of cctv cameras behind me there. and with more cameras pouring off the production lines, china's tech companies are candid about their extraordinary potential. translation: the system can match every face with an id card and trace all your movements back one week in time. we can match yourface all your movements back one week in time. we can match your face with a car you drive, match it with your relatives and the people you are usually in touch with. if the camera density is high enough, we can know who you are regularly meeting. this video shows a woman coaxing at child to follow her and then allegedly abduct in him. china says it proves the benefits of facial recognition technology which was used to track the woman and used to reunite the boy with his family. in a city of 4 million people it takes the system just a a few minutes to find me. the control room alerts a group of nearby police officers... right behind me, you can seejust over my left shoulder there. hello guys. i have been expecting you. and it is all over. china's1—party state has all over. china's1—party state has a powerful new tool. it will help catch criminals, of course, but dissidents and critics may come to fear it too. big brother is watching you! it turns out our lot of people are watching us, i thought it was just me and you. i haven't been on a with you since we out that wonderful news that we have... we have missed you! it is only now that you have resurfaced! i want to say, thank you to everybody in singapore and the london team, we did it! congratulations! we have been on this show for the past six and a half years and finally we have won it! and it is a award season! apart from the asian television awards, 110w from the asian television awards, now you have the globe and —— golden globe awards. the nominations for next month's golden globe awards have been revealed, with the fairy—tale romance movie, the shape of water, leading the way with seven nominations. it'll be the first major ceremony since sexual abuse allegations were made against leading hollywood figures including harvey weinstein, kevin spacey, and dustin hoffman. our correspondent peter bowes is in la and told me more about the nominations. some great titles, looking at the drama category. we have the post and dunkirk. and then the shape of water, the film that everybody is talking about, set in 1962 in baltimore. sally hawkins plays a mute cleaner in a top—secret government factory and this is the film that addicts are raving about. it is certainly being lauded by her fa ns it is certainly being lauded by her fans as well, nor needed for best actress and bodes well for the 0scars as well. in a different film, dunkirk, is that the nolan directed this, great cinematography. the story of the early days of the second world war when the allied forces were stranded on the beaches of dunkirk and we expect that to do well as the awards season moves on. interestingly this film was talked about several months ago and was talked about as a leading contender during awards season. something to look forward to, some familiar faces up look forward to, some familiar faces upfor look forward to, some familiar faces up for acting awards? it wouldn't be awards without meryl streep. the most nominated individual at the golden globes, her name there yet again for best actress, nominated for the post, which is the steven spielberg epic about the washington post publishing the pentagon papers, a film all about press freedom. 0ther a film all about press freedom. other big names in the coalition categories, robert de niro is nominated for the wizard of lies and nicole kidman nominated for big little lies, six nominations, making it the most nominated in the television categories of. and briefly, big hollywood nominations ceremony, the first time since the harvey weinstein scandal blew up. here is the interesting thing, that scandal, kevin spacey lost his job on the film that is aboutjohn paul getty, his nomination that people expected to get has gone to christopher plummer, nominated for a film that hasn't been released yet. looking forward to that. thank you so looking forward to that. thank you so much. that's all for now — stay with bbc world news. bikes turning up in strange places in australia. the downside to bicycle sharing. and before we go, after weeks of speculation — ”will they or won't they?”. two of india's stars have tied the knot. wedding invitations were restricted to close family and friends. cu soon. a winter wonderland. it can look beautiful. the wintry weather continues through the overnight through eastern coastal areas and through southwest wales, cornwell and devon. 0ut coastal areas and through southwest wales, cornwell and devon. out in the countryside and where there is lying snow, easily minus double digit figures and we are going to system freezing mist and fog as well to greet us for tuesday morning. watch out for snow and ice which could be widespread where we have got snow and whereas being snow melt. some treacherous conditions out there on untreated roads and pavements and cycle routes, seeing a cold, frosty start across the border. a if you wintry showers, saying to a cross southwest wales and cornwall and devon. into the midlands and northern england, scotla nd midlands and northern england, scotland and northern ireland, cold and crisp but at least dry and bright with plenty of sunshine. a glorious day, white wind, lots of sunshine. a change across the west, the weather front moving to northern ireland, western scotland and the far south—west, outbreaks of rain to see some outbreaks of snow across the higher ground. temperatures rising in the south—west but they cold day in central and eastern areas of. there is the change on tuesday, the first of a succession of weather fronts that will move through and we will see another one moving on when they, behind it colder at a out once again. —— air. a frost free start on most places, a little bit of sunshine before the next weather system moves in, likely to bring heavy burst two of rain to england and wales. some snow across parts of northern ireland and towards scotland. double—figure values in the south, colder in the north. into thursday, a little bit of rain across the south, plenty of showers and quite windy across the border in the north and the west. a little bit colder as well and that cold air will start to pour southwards through the area of low pressure as it clears eastward, opening up the floodgates into the afternoon, colder friday into the evening. you are watching bbc world news. our top story: new york's mayor says a bomb explosion next to the city's main bus station was an attempted terrorist attack. the suspected attacker is currently in police custody, and has been named as 27—year—old akayed ullah, who moved to the us from bangladesh. he suffered burns from the crude pipe—bomb strapped to his body. three women who accused president trump of sexual misconduct, alleging he groped, kissed and harassed them, have demanded a congressional inquiry. the white house says their claims are false. and this story is trending on bbc.com: the fairy—tale romance the shape of water leads nominations for the 2018 golden globe awards. it has picked up seven nominations. the ceremony next month could set the stage for the winners at the oscars in march. stay with bbc world news. now on bbc news, it is time for hardtalk

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