the headlines: turkey says it has captured the sister of the former islamic state group leader abu bakr al—baghdadi, who died during an american raid last month. the arrest is being called an intelligence gold mine. india's top court has announced a series of measures intended to address the toxic smog which is causing a public health emergency in delhi. it ordered regional state governments to prevent power cuts until further notice, to limit the use of diesel generators. the us impeachment inquiry has moved into the next phase, releasing public transcripts from key interviews held behind closed doors. a federal court has also ruled that president trump's tax returns can be turned over to new york prosecutors. now on bbc news,

monday in parliament. hello and welcome to monday in parliament. we have a new commons speaker! the question is that sir lindsay takes the chair of this house is speaker. sir lindsay hoyle will succeed john bercow. this house will change but it will change for the better. and he gets a warm welcome. you'll also bring gore signature to our proceedings. we have a problem if they can hold the executive to account and i know that you will stand up for that principle. so after several hours of voting sir lindsay hoyle was finally elected to one of the most important jobs in politics. it fell to the longest serving mp, the former conservative chancellor, now independent mp, kenneth clarke to deliver the results.

sir lindsay hoyle beat six other candidates. the job of speaker comes with a salary of 150 thousand pounds — and the added bonus that now he doesn't have to campaign in the coming election because it's customary for candidates not to stand against the speaker. so no wonder sir lindsay was smiling. i invite sir lindsay hoyle to take the chair of the house. the motion for the house, the question is that sir lindsay hoyle take the chair of this house as speaker. as many that are of that opinion... the ayes have it. sir lindsay hoyle beat six other candidates. the job of speaker comes with a salary of 150 thousand pounds — and the added bonus that now he doesn't have to campaign in the coming election because it's customary for candidates not to stand against the speaker. so no wonder sir lindsay was smiling. despite the clear advantages, it's traditional for the newly—appointed

speaker to appear a bit reluctant to take up his new post. so he is physically dragged from the backbench to the chair. why? well apparently it's because the speaker has to communicate the opinion of the commons to the monarch. and historically, if the monarch didn't like the message, he or she might — literally — have the messenger shot. but even in these turbulent times that seems unlikely to happen during the next parliament. once in position, the new speaker had this to say. it is about the challenges ahead. for me, in this chamber, i stand by what i've said and i stand firm that i hope this house will be once a great respected house, not distant here, but across the world. that once again... it is the envy and to make sure tarnishes polished away. the respect and tolerance that we expect from everyone who works in here will be shown and we will keep that in order. the prime minister was among the first to congratulate him. you will also bring your signature kindness and reasonableness to our proceedings and thereby

to help bring us together as a parliament and is a democracy because no matter how fiercely we may disagree, we know that every member comes to this place of the best of motives, determined to serve the oldest parliamentary democracy and to achieve our goals by the peaceable art of reason and debate, given by impartial speaker. which was and remains one of our greatest gifts to the world, thank you, mr speaker and congratulations. as you have said and many know, the job of speaker is not a ceremonial one. it is about the right of backbenchers to be able to speak up, it is about the power of parliament to hold government to account. that is the principal and point of a parliamentary democracy that we have a strong parliament that can hold the executive to account and i know that you will stand up for that principle

because that is what you believe in and it is absolutely the heart of our political system. all of the candidates said that they would protect and respect the rights of the third party and the smaller parties and we appreciate that and we look forward to it and not quite as many of us in the snp benches are here as might be in other circumstances, but we look forward to coming back in even greater numbers on the 12th of december. to congratulate you more fully. i hope you also continued the work of modernisation in this place which we have seen in the last decade and welcome your pledge to make sure in outreach and we reach out to disadvantaged groups which none of us should be happy until this place probably represents the communities that we serve. so how did the contest unfold? it was the prime minister who fired the starting pistol. i have to say that her majesty, being informed of the resignation of the right honourable john bercow, gives leave to the house to proceed

forth with the election of a new speaker. seven candidates were after the job. five of them were labour mps: sir lindsay hoyle, chris bryant, harriet harman, meg hillier and dame rosie winterton. and the other two were conservatives: dame eleanor laing and sir edward leigh. they were each given five minutes make their pitch. most chose to highlight how they would do the job differently from john bercow. the first to speak was one of the current deputy speakers, dame rosie winterton. as deputy speaker, i have seen tempers rise if there is too much disruption of business. urgent questions are an important innovation of our last speaker. but i've seen members become frustrated, having worked hard on a speech only to end up being squeezed by the three—minute time limit. urgent business must be debated when it is urgent. but pmqs and statements should not take hours.

neither should pmqs. i'm standing because i love parliament and i believe in parliamentary democracy and i want to do things properly. that means being a speaker who has absolutely no favourites. a speaker who believes in standing by the rules. somebody who is completely impartial, who knows that erskine may inside out and back to front, i have got it lying by my bedside. a speaker... all right, all right. a speaker who is an umpire, not a player. i think the speaker should submerge his or her character

in thejob. the speaker should be the servant of the house. the speaker should be a dignified and quiet voice. i'm very sad that so many honourable members who i see as i look around have decided to leave the house tomorrow. it is time that someone had the courage to defend members of parliament, notjust inside this house but outside it as well. defending members of parliament, that is what i would do if the house makes me speaker. there are times for continuity and there are times for change. this is a time for change. i want to be that change. this is the 215t—century, for goodness' sake, we need to escape from the overbearing and hierarchical structures that have made it all too easy for a culture of bullying to take root.

the bullying and harassment that is to rented in this building. and yes, we need an independent process put in place but we need more than that. highlighting problems in our own offices, there is a good list of mps to work for and a bad list of mps to work for. staff know this, we know this, it may be an uncomfortable message. it may not be a vote today, but we should not be complacent even if we are on that good list. we should not rest while young staff in this building are fearful, tearful and afraid to raise concerns about how they have been treated. during my nine years as deputy, whatever the size of parted, i have encouraged to make sure their voice is heard. and i will continue to do that. because it is not a club that says that you have been here for 35 years, do not take

it wrong, mr clark. the fact is that when i look at 35 years of people in this house, i think i've heard that speech once before and many more times. that speech is important, but that person who walks through that door yesterday is just as important to this constituents. their voice must be heard as well, of course. a speaker has to be trusted and hopefully i have built up that trust. it is about having a proven track record and i hope you'll all agree that i have got that track record and when people say well i will do in such amount of time on prime minister's questions i would do something else, i have done it. i know you want to speaker who be seen to be scrupulous and impartial and fair to every mp

from every party. when i was leader of the house, i was exactly that. i would reform the speaker's powers to make them transparent and accountable to this house. and i would be fearless and standing up to the rights of the house. i know you want to speaker who understands what it is to be a government backbencher and an opposition backbencher and a government minister and a shadow minister. and i have been all of those things. once all the pitches were finished, kenneth clarke — the tess daly of proceedings — took the floor. i have to give a clear explanation of the process which is not actually familiar to any other. so firstly, members beginning with the letters a to k,

should vote in the eye, those beginning with l to 2 should vote in the no lobby. straightforward so far. please give your name to the clerk at the appropriate desk for your surname as usual, surnames of been divided into three categories in each lobby. when you pass the desk, you will be given a valid paper and when you complete it, please place it in one of the ballot boxes at the exit of the lobby. that should be familiar. they all seemed to get the hang of it. but not every mp was in the chamber — the first round of voting revealed only 562 of them. some were obviously foregoing the ballot in favour of campaigning in out in the constituency. the contest went to four rounds. meg hillier and sir edward leigh were first out because they both got less than the required five percent of the ballots cast. in round two 13 more mps took part,

bringing the total to 575. and it was dame rosie winterton who left the competition with the fewest number of votes. a few minutes later labour's harriet harman decided to withdraw. so it was down to just three. strangely ten of the mps who voted in round two didn't take part, so how would the 565 votes be distributed 7 169, sir lindsay hoyle, 267. laing, 127. two ballot papers are spoiled. those two votes wouldn't have made any difference — and dame eleanor laing was eliminated. then there were two.

this is the result of the ballot, 540 ballots were cast and other pressing engagements taking people away. the number of votes cast for each candidate were as followed. chris bryant, 213. sir lindsay hoyle, 325. and that's how sir lindsay hoyle became speaker. you're watching monday in parliament with me, mandy baker. don't forget this programme and the reviews of the other days of the parliamentary week are all available on the bbc iplayer. an all—party parliamentary report called no place at home recently warned that children in care were almost twice as likely to be placed outside their local area and in unregulated accommodation than three years ago.

the crossbench or independent peer, lord laming, wanted to know what action the government was taking as a result of the report, to protect the safety and well—being of these children. he got this response. my lords, the government takes unregistered and unregulated provision extremely seriously. i cannot imagine a situation where it is acceptable for a child under the age of 16 to be in an unregistered setting. we are working with ofsted, local authorities, the children's commissioner and others to tackle this. 0fsted had conducted 150 investigations into unregistered providers this year. ministers have reminded local authorities of their duty to keep children safe, particularly if they are placed away from their area. i'm very grateful to the noble lord, the minister for that encouraging response, but i am sure that he will agree that when a local authority takes a vulnerable

child into public care, that authority has a duty in law to be a good parent to the child. surely it is little short of outrageous for a child who has not had the best start in life to be placed in a caravan or a narrow boat without proper support. even worse, this child will have been separated from the wider family, from friends, and from school as it's placed often miles away from its home. surely in this day and age this is unacceptable. and will the minister do all that he can to stop this happening? i completely agree with the noble lord. any case such as those he has just cited are tragedies. we are doing a great deal to try to help local authorities. we have a funding of a programme called staying put, where a young person continues to live with a former foster carer,

providing funding for staying close to be piloted in eight areas. to date, we've provided over £110 million to local authorities to support them to implement staying put. staying put, which has helped thousands of care leavers to transition more smoothly from care to independent living. there are currently over 75,000 children in the care of local authorities. 88 children are being taken into care each and every day. it's the highest number over the last, from the last ten years. and yet in that same period, funding for looking after children has dropped dramatically. the local government association, and i declare my interest as a vice president, has shown that there will be a over three billion gap in funding by 2025. i have some experience of the situation when a child

who is sent from one local authority to another and there becomes a gap in information. is the noble lord aware and can he do something about the situation where the local authority of where the child came loses interest and the new local authority does not know sufficient about the child 7 my lords, can i applaud the government's staying put programme? but can i press the issue of children being placed way away from their local authority? this has increased by 77% since 2012, children being placed outside of their local authority. it is the highest level on record that children from a local authority are placed outside of their local authority. will the minister look at an emergency action plan made up between the department for education and local authorities to address this matter, to assure that there are sufficient, appropriate, good quality, local placements for young people in care? in terms of staying close, i again agree with the noble lord. there are one or two situations when moving a child out of areas are important, for example,

to get away from gangs or from county lines drug trafficking. but we are again trying to help in this area. we are initiating a move on accommodation offer in suitable and sustainable accommodation, located as close as possible to their former children's home and a package of practical and emotional support provided by a member of staff from the young person's previous children's home, providing some continuity in support during the transition to adulthood. the education minister, lord agnew. the government has faced calls from all sides in house of lords to publish a committee report investigating alleged attempts by russian agents to interfere in british domestic politics, in particular the 2016 eu referendum and the general election a year later. the chair of the intelligence and security committee, the independent mp dominic grieve, has called for the report to be published before the general election, saying it contains knowledge ? germane? to voters.

borisjohnson had been expected to approve publication of the 50—page dossier last week. his refusal to do so sparked speculation that it could potentially be damaging to the government. a former independent reviewer of terrorism legislation wanted to know why the prime minister hadn't provided confirmation within the usual ten days so that the report could be published. he dismissed the idea that a number of processes still had to be gone through before publication. the minister's response echoes two unsatisfactory explanations that have been aired in recent days for this irregular state of affairs. the first is that redaction remains to be completed. but this report has already been through the full redaction process with the agencies and cabinet office. prime ministerial confirmation in the isc‘s past experience has always been a formality. the second explanation is that time is needed for the government to respond. but the government's aim and usual

practice are set out in a 2014 memorandum of understanding is to respond not at the same time as a report is published, but within 60 days. my lords, this unjustified delay undermines the isc, it invites, i'm afraid, suspicion of the government and its motives. will the minister advise number ten to think again? my lords, i must correct the noble lord in several respects. the current length of time that this report has been with the government is not at all unusual. this report is one of a number of isc reports that the government is currently considering. in this instance, the government is following the standard process process which applies before every publication. there is a memorandum of understanding with the committee that sets out the relationship between them and the government. this does not include a timetable for the government to clear such reports for publication, and there is no set timeline for a response. nor is there such a deadline set

in governing legislation. having said all that, i do realise that the subject of this report is a matter of particular public interest, and i have no doubt that noble lords' comments will not be lost on those in number ten. crossbench peer and former national security adviser, wanted to emphasise again that publication of the report was not the same as an official government response. ministers merely had to "ok" the publication. my lords, i've had the privilege of appearing in front of the isc many times in my career, and it is always a very bracing experience. will the minister accept that they are widely renowned for the quality of theirjudgements and value of their advice? would he accept the central point that the isc is the only select committee of parliament which requires the government's agreement to publish its report? so, when ministers make the point that they need time to respond, that misses the point that what is being asked here is publication of the report, the response can take its time and that there is a clear public interest in the national security implications of russia's

adversarial conduct. there were more pleas for speedy publication, not least from a former cabinet secretary. my lords, is it not the case that the process of clearing this report started on the 28th of march, seven months ago. and it was only the final stage of it being cleared by the prime minister that started in october. is it not also the case that the whole point of this report is that it is relevant to a general election coming up and the government should make a particular effort to make sure that it is in the public domain. please, will the minister ask number ten to think again? lord howe said the sense of urgency expressed by the chamber and by lord butler would not be lost by his colleagues in government. back to our main story, the election of the new speaker. well, once the commons has made its decision, the new speaker has to get the queen's approval.

to save her majesty from making the trip all the way from buckingham palace, the lord chancellor bestows it on her behalf. and as with all things ceremonial in house of lords, it requires a bit of hat doffing. sir lindsay, we have it in command from her majesty to declare her majesty's entire confidence in your talents, diligence and sufficiency to fulfil the important duties of the high office of speaker of the house of commons, to which you have been chosen by that house. and in obedience to the commission which has been read and by virtue of the authority there in contained, we do declare her majesty's royal

allowance and confirmation of you, sir, as speaker of the house of commons. lords, i submit myself with all humility and gratitude to her majesty's royal will and pleasure. i pray that if in the discharge of my duty and in the maintenance of the rights and privileges of the commons, houses of parliament, i should inadvertently full into error, it may be imputed to me alone and not to her majesty's faithful commons. 0k, bow. step back.

so it's been an historic day but there were some lighter moments, especially during the candidates pitches when chris bryant was listing his pet hates. i want to stop the clapping. applause no! yes, very funny. and that's all we've got time for today. alicia mccarthy will be here at the same time tomorrow for a review of the final day before parliament is dissolved for the election. but from me, mandy baker, it's goodbye and i leave you with something which is likely to become very familiar in the months and years to come. order! order. thanks, everybody.

hello there. it's been a pretty unsettled start to november. we've seen quite a bit of rainfall in places. however, over the next few days what we'll notice is a change in temperature. it's going to turn much cooler with those winds starting to come down from the north, right from the arctic. and there will also be further rain at times through the week. now, early on tuesday, we start off with quite a bit of cloud across england and wales, most of the showers across the north—east corner. turning dry with clear spells across western scotland and northern ireland, so will be quite chilly here. but further south and east, where we also have lighter winds, we will see temperatures around 7 or 8 degrees and there could be a few mist and fog patches around to start tuesday. our area of low pressure will be retreating south—eastwards into the near continent, allowing those winds to come down from the north. we'll see isobars fairly close together so it'll be breezy across northern and western areas. you can see that arctic air, the blue colour, seeping southwards gradually, sitting noticeable across the northern half of the country during the day.

so tuesday morning, we start off with drier weather across scotland and northern ireland. it'll stay rather cloudy across central and eastern parts of england, a few showers around. but it'll also be quite windy as well across the north and the west. as i mentioned earlier, with those isobars close together, single—figure values in the north, just about double figures in the south, 10—12 degrees. through tuesday night, we'll start to see those clear skies pushing their way southwards and eastwards with most of the showers dying out. those temperatures will fall away, certainly a chilly night to come across northern and western areas, temperatures in towns and cities hovering around freezing to 2 degrees. a chilly start to wednesday. there will be some frost around. a little bit of mist and fog too. looking out west, we've got the next weather system which will be working its way in through wednesday. that will introduce thicker cloud and more outbreaks of rain. but we start off on a chilly note with some frost and sunshine across central and eastern areas. any mist and fog will clear away through the morning, then we'll start to see the thicker cloud and outbreaks of rain pushing into western areas.

meanwhile, the sunshine across eastern areas will turn hazier as that frontal system continues to work in from the west. and a chilly day to come for all. 6, 7 degrees in the north, 9 orjust about 10 across the south. as we head into thursday and into friday we hold onto that chilly fell, as you can see those blue colours and there will tend to be more rain at times, although for friday it's looking a bit drier. so we'll have some rain about on thursday, it will be quite breezy, too. on friday, a brief ridge of high pressure brings us some dry conditions with some sunshine.

welcome to bbc news, i'm mike embley. our top stories: turkey says it has captured the elder sister of abu bakr al—baghdadi, leader of the islamic state group, killed in a us raid. india's top judges accuse the authorities of passing the buck and failing to tackle delhi's toxic smog. key impeachment testimony is released to the public, as a federal court rules president trump can't withhold his tax returns. as the world of horse racing awaits the start of the melbourne cup, an animal abuse scandal shocks many in australia.