Scotland's senior prosecutor says it is "vital" the UK remains a member of the European criminal justice agencies after Brexit.

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Whichever way the voting goes, it is clear that history will be made in the United States overnight and many of us over this side of the pond will be glued to our TV screens and mobile devices to watch it happening. 

Follow all the results as they come in and get the latest analysis and reaction on the BBC's US Election 2016 livepage as we wait to see whether it will be Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump who is bound for the White House.

Here is a summary of the stories that have been making the headlines. 

• The government's appeal against a High Court ruling on Brexit will be heard in the Supreme Court from 5 December. 
• The Scottish government will seek to intervene in the government's Supreme Court appeal - meaning Holyrood could also get a vote on triggering Article 50. 
• In India, Theresa May faced questions over plans to expand global trade while cutting immigration.  
• Dame Lowell Goddard says she will not appear before a parliamentary committee to give evidence into the troubled inquiry into child sexual abuse she chaired before her resignation in August. 
• Numerous errors were made in Scotland Yard's investigation into paedophile allegations against VIPs, an independent review has found.  
• And something rather significant is going on in America, as the country votes to choose its 45th President. 

The full list of candidates for the Richmond Park by-election have been confirmed. They are: 

Zac Goldsmith, Independent

Howling Laud Hope, The Official Monster Raving Loony Party

Maharaja Jammu and Kashmir, One Love Party

Sarah Olney, Liberal Democrats

David Powell

Dominic Francis Stockford, Christian Peoples Alliance

Fiona Natasha Syms, Independent

Christian Wolmar, Labour Party

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Shadow defence secretary Nia Griffith says the image many people have of veterans "is of very elderly men and women" which has been reinforced by events commemorating World War I.

However, Ms Griffith says she attended the unveiling of a new memorial in her Llanelli constituency, dedicated to servicemen "killed in the eight conflicts since the end of the Second World War" including Iraq and Afghanistan.

She says the Royal British Legion has reminded people that the poppy appeal is "also about remembering our modern day veterans".

The Armed Forces Covenant should entitle veterans to the support that they need, she adds, asking the government what is being done to match service leavers to appropriate jobs and suggesting that minister "look again at outlawing discrimination against our service community".

Lawyer and journalist Joshua Rozenberg reports, external that six High Court judges have accused the Lord Chancellor Liz Truss of unlawfully discriminating against them on grounds of age in regards to their pension entitlements. 

The six claimants are Sir Nicholas Mostyn, 59, Sir Roderick Newton, 58, Sir Philip Moor, 57, Dame Lucy Theis, 55, Sir Richard Arnold, 55 and Sir Rabinder Singh, 52.   

Their claims relate to a change made last year to judges' pensions.

They say their complaints “reflect the established constitutional principle, dating back to (at least) the Act of Settlement 1701 that neither the legislature nor the executive should subject judges to a reduction in pay (including deferred pay such as pensions) during the term of their offices, as has occurred in the case of the claimants". 

A plan by UKIP interim leader Nigel Farage to lead a Brexit march in London is attacked by the Welsh Government's top law officer.

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It is “entirely inappropriate” for people to attack judges for doing their job, Communities Secretary Sajid Javid has said.

His comments follow criticism from some MPs and parts of the media of the High Court judges who ruled last week that Parliament must be given a say on triggering Article 50 to leave the EU.

Appearing before MPs on the Communities and Local Government Select Committee, Mr Javid said: “What I think is entirely inappropriate is for anyone to attack judges for doing their job.”

He added: “We are very lucky to live in a country where we have judges that are rightly independent, they go about their job and no-one should be attacking judges for doing their job.

“They’ve been asked to do something and they are doing it. Whatever they ultimately decide - obviously there’s an appeal in this case - that’s obviously what will be accepted by everyone concerned, and of course the government.”

Mr Javid had been asked by Labour committee member Rushanara Ali whether he regretted his comments on BBC Question Time last week, when he said the High Court case was "a clear attempt to frustrate the will of the British people”.

Mr Javid said his remarks were misreported – and that he had been questioning “the motivation of the litigants” and some of their supporters, saying he believed they wanted to “defy the will of the people expressed in the referendum”.

He added: “I think it is entirely appropriate to question that.”

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The committee and the witness are listening to translations of each other's words through headphones and this leads to some tricky moments waiting for each other to be understood.

When asked whether Vladimir Putin sees Britain as an enemy, Mr Khodorkovsky says: "I have no doubt that Putin is provoking Russian society, projecting the idea that the UK is an enemy of Russia. Whether he thinks that himself, I think he probably doesn't."

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Labour's Baroness Thornton introduces an amendment that aims to outlaw the practice of GPs charging for letters of proof when applying for legal aid in domestic violence cases. 

She says it's "yet another barrier" to justice. "I think it's unfair, I think it's immoral," she says. 

Since the work falls outside of the GP's NHS contract, they are allowed to charge a fee. Labour frontbencher Lord Watson of Invergowrie says that there are no figures on how many GPs do charge the fee, but it is known that when charged the fees range from "£20 to £180". He says "change is urgent".

Minister Lord Nash says the government does not believe there is a need for GPs to charge. "None of us wish to see unnecessary barriers" placed in the way of domestic violence victims, he says. 

But he adds that he's worried that legislation to ban the fees could be counterproductive, but the Ministry of Justice is investigating the matter.

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In its statement just now, the Supreme Court also gave more details of how proceedings in the government's Brexit appeal will take place.

Here are the key points: 

• It has set aside four days for the hearing but the exact duration will depend on further submissions received from the interested parties, the number of interveners and whether any other related cases are joined to this one
• Supreme Court President Lord Neuberger will chair the panel
• The Supreme Court will sit in its largest courtroom and make available a live video feed in the other two courtrooms in the Westminster building to enable as many members of the public as possible to observe proceedings. 
• The hearing will be live streamed on the Supreme Court website
• Judgment will be reserved at the end of the hearing and follow at a later date, "probably in the New Year".

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On sanctions applied to Russia, Bill Browder says people argue they haven't changed Russian behaviour, but he says he would argue that they change future actions.

He says he thinks Putin might have gone further into Ukraine if sanctions hadn't been in place. He adds: "I believe it is causing him great problems economically" - and for his reputation - and that lifting them would be giving him a green light to do "terrible things"

He asks: "Why wouldn't he start to toy around with Baltics? Then we have a real military crisis on our hands."

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Labour's Stephen Doughty says the armed forces charity, the Royal British Legion, has produced a series of films, narrated by World War II veterans but about the veterans of more recent conflicts.

Mr Doughty also says that referrals to veterans' mental health charity Combat Stress "are up 71%" and points to a survey suggesting many people in the UK are not aware of the extent of military deployments overseas.

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The committee has moved on to the next witness in order to give the Russian translator a rest, but Mr Khodorkovsky will return to give further evidence in around 45 minutes.

Next to give evidence is Bill Browder. He was a highflying businessman in Moscow before being expelled and has been described as "Russian President Vladimir Putin’s No. 1 foe".

He says that the UK has appeased Russia such as when Alexander Litvinenko was murdered in London. He says Russia has been allowed to get away with state sanctioned murder in the UK.

He goes on to tell MPs that his campaigning has led to the US Congress adopting the ‘Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act’ after his lawyer Mr Magnitsky's murder and he wants to bring the same legislation to the UK.

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The second backbench motion today is on "raising awareness of a new generation of veterans and service personnel".

Labour MP Stephen Doughty tabled the motion and opens the debate.

He says that after a "rancorous and divisive debate" on schools in England, he hopes the House can come together to discuss the armed forces "as we approach Remembrance Sunday".

He praises the contribution of groups including the Royal British Legion to "the memory of the fallen and future of the living".

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Labour's Mike Gapes is asking what the UK can do about Russian planes flying into UK airspace and how to assess this type of military provocation.

Mr Khodorkovsky says: "I do not think that President Putin is prepared to behave like a mad man and start a war. I believe to a certain extent he wants people to be apprehensive that he might be capable of such a thing, but he is not a mad man."

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Did former US president Bill Clinton describe Jeremy Corbyn as the "maddest person in the room" and suggest Labour "practically got a guy off the street" when they elected him leader last year?

That is what the Wikileaks website, external is claiming, citing private remarks that it says Mr Clinton made at an event last year.

According to Wikileaks, Mr Clinton bemoaned the sequence of events that lead to Mr Corbyn being elected in 2015 but acknowledged that they were "perfectly psychologically understandable and predictable".

He suggested that Ed Miliband had beaten his brother David - who is close to Hillary Clinton - in a previous contest in 2010 because of Labour's anger with the latter over his support for the Iraq War and that Ed Miliband had then taken the party to the left.

He continued: "When David Cameron thumped him in the election, they reached for the interesting conclusion that they lost because they hadn't moved far enough left, and so they went and practically got a guy off the street to be leader."

Stephen Bush, in the New Statesman, makes the point that Mr Clinton is not suggesting that Mr Corbyn is in any way "crazy or deranged".

He points out that in American idiom mad is often used as a synonym for angry and that Mr Clinton had also referred in his reported comments to Labour "being mad" with David Miliband over his Iraq War stance.

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Closing the debate Labour MP Lisa Nandy says the motion for debate today was intended to ask the minister to "pause and reflect" on the evidence.

She alleges that Education Minister Nick Gibb has "continued to cite evidence that is at best flimsy and at worst deliberately misleading".

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"Too often parents do not have a choice of a good school place for their child," says Education Minister Nick Gibb.

He tells MPs that a child's ability to get into a good school often depends "not on talent or hard work but on where they live and how much money their parents have".

Mr Gibb says the government plans to "remove the restrictive regulations that are preventing more children from going to a high quality faith school and we want to end the ban on opening new grammar schools". 

He adds: "In a school system where over a million pupils aren't getting the education they need and deserve, it cannot be right to prevent more good and outstanding selective school places from being created."