This is bbc world news. Its newsday. Good morning. Its 9am in singapore, 1am in london and 6 30am in delhi, where millions of people are still being urged to stay indoors because of toxic smog. State governments have been accused of failing to take action to tackle the citys air pollution. The Supreme Court said authorities were only interested in gimmicks, rather than concrete measures. Our south asia correspondent, Rajini Vaidyanatha has more. So our pollution meter has a reading of around 300 right now. Now, that is way lower than it was in the last 2a hours or so, but it is still staggeringly high, way above what is considered safe according to the world health organization. Now, as delhi continues to be in a state of Public Health emergency, the government here is trying to mitigate some of the higher levels of pollution. It introduced on monday what is known as its odd even scheme. Now, that means that cars with an even license plate can only drive on even dates, and the same for
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. Youll 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 doesnt have to campaign in the coming election because its customary for candidates not to stand against the speaker. So no wonder sir lindsay was
The Turkish Military says it has this is bbc news. Captured the sister of abu bakr the headlines al baghdadi, leader of the Extremist Group the so called Islamic State, who died in an american raid turkey says its captured the sister in syria a week ago. Turkish Officials Say of the former Islamic State group they are interrogating her along leader abu bakr al baghdadi, with her husband and who died during an american daughter in law, detained with her. Raid last month. With more, here is michael pregent, the arrests being called former intelligence officer, an intelligence gold mine. Now a senior fellow indias top court has announced with the hudson institute. A series of measures intended to address the toxic smog there are not a lot of details, which is causing a Public Health emergency in delhi. It ordered Regional State but what is important governments to prevent power cuts until further notice, to limit the use of diesel generators. Is where she was captured, delhi authorities h
Theres plenty more on our website thats bbc. Co. Uk news and on the bbc news app. Now its live to singapore for Asia Business report. Gubera disappointing. Shares are down after the latest earnings fell short of expectations. The us commerce secretary visits indonesia with a delegation of senior us business executives. Hello, and welcome to Asia Business report. Im sharanjit leyl. Welcome to Asia Business report. Im shara njit leyl. We welcome to Asia Business report. Im sharanjit leyl. We begin with uber because the rolled hailing doesnt ride hailing firm missed its expectations for monthly active users. While Street Investors are pleased with the numbers with shares following 5 in extended trading. This mirror has seen has more from new york. Does make filing. I think the biggest headline now is over 1 billion in losses for the quarter. That is a huge amount of money that the company has lost in the last three months. And if you look at the same time last year, we saw that that numbe
The house of commons has elected sir Lindsay Hoyle as its new speaker, succeeding john bercow. Sir lindsay originally a labour mp was formerly Deputy Speaker and he secured a significant majority in the final round of voting. Our chief Political Correspondent vicki young reports. Were going to be hearing a lot more of this mans voice in the coming months as he oversees the next chapter in these tumultuous political times. According to parliamentary tradition, sir Lindsay Hoyle had to be dragged to the speakers chair where he made this promise. I will be neutral, i will be transparent, i think this house, we can do more to ensure that that transparency continues. His family were watching from the Public Gallery and he spoke of their heartache over the death of his 28 year old daughter. My daughter natalie, i wish she could have been here. We all miss her as a family, none more so than her mum. Ive got to say, she was everything to all of us, she will always be missed but will always be