tonight at six — it's the messaging app that so many of us use every day, and it's been hacked. whatsapp's encrypted service was meant to be secure. now it's emerged that some users have been under surveillance. 1.5 billion people use whatsapp, and they use it because they feel it's a more secure messaging app, and that their conversations are going to be private. with so much of our lives now governed by digital technology, how worried should we be? also tonight. calls for itv‘sjeremy kyle show to be taken off air for good after a former guest dies. on trial, the man who claimed a vip paedophile ring was responsible for abuse and even murder.

the smart meters that could be costing you money, a bbc investigation finds that millions of them are not working. he's been called the greatest jumpjockey in history — ruby walsh talks to us as he prepares to retire. and coming up on bbc news, pakistan proving no pushovers as england continue their build—up ahead of this summer's cricket world cup. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. millions of whatsapp users across the country are being urged to update their app after a security breach. the company, which is owned

by facebook, says surveillance software was remotely installed on a select number of mobile phones. the breach is all the more surprising because one of whatsapp‘s main attractions is that messages are encrypted. so who are the hackers and what are they after? here's our technology correspondent rory cellan—jones. it promises total security. 1.5 billion whatsapp users have bought into the pledge that their calls and m essa 9 es into the pledge that their calls and messages are private. now they are finding out that attackers could have used a missed call to plant spywa re have used a missed call to plant spyware on their phones to monitor their every move. this seems to be quite a sophisticated breach. it will make a voice call, which doesn't even need to be answered by the recipient, and then once you're inside the app, it's possible to install software or spy on the user. facebook, which owns whatsapp, says it spotted and fixed the flaw in its

defences earlier this month, but it's encouraging all users to update to the latest version of the app. who was behind the attack and who we re who was behind the attack and who were they trying to spy on? whatsapp says it believes it was targeted at a few select users and there are the hallmarks of a private company working with governments to deliver spywa re working with governments to deliver spyware on mobile phones. it's thought it refers to israel's nso group, providing surveillance for the government and has previously been accused of helping them to spy on human rights activists. one lawyer who works with campaigners and says he was targeted using whatsapp over the last two months. he wants to remain anonymous. i'm not used to being the victim so it isn't a pleasant feeling. it's scary. any state with questionable human rights records can easily acquire the system and use it against people who are activists, human rights lawyers and journalists. in a statement, the israeli firm said.

keeping our communications secure from both hackers and governments is a co nsta nt from both hackers and governments is a constant battle for the technology companies. this flaw has been fixed. there are undoubtedly more yet to be discovered. as we've heard, whatsapp says the malicious software was developed by an israeli company and was mainly being used to spy on human rights lawyers. let's speak to our middle east correspondent tom bateman in jerusalem. what do we know about the company at the centre of this? israel is one of the centre of this? israel is one of the world's leaders when it comes to cybersecurity exports and at the cutting—edge of that industry, the company, nso group. to many people that will be a new name but it has been here in israel and the tech world at the centre of a growing controversy for a couple of years

110w. controversy for a couple of years now. it says that when it sells its product, which you heard can be injected into people's phones and turnit injected into people's phones and turn it into a tracking device, into a bug, it is meant forforeign intelligence agencies to be used to track terrorists and criminals and keep people safe. but there have been numerous claims now that the softwa re been numerous claims now that the software has been abused and sold to countries that have questionable human rights records. there have been two lawsuits filed in tel aviv against the company by activists from mexico and saudi arabia, who say that the software was improperly used against them. as for the ns0 group, it says that whenever there is evidence that the software is misused, it will investigate it and shut the system down. as for protecting people, it says its systems have been used to save cou ntless systems have been used to save countless lives. thank you. there are calls for itv‘s jeremy kyle show to be taken off air for good after the death of a participant.

steve dymond died days afterfailing a lie—detector test on the programme which was never broadcast. the show, which has been described as "car—crash tv" by an mp on the commons media committee, is known for its often confrontational style. here's our media editor amol rajan. for 1a years, thejeremy kyle show has turned the innermost anguish of its guests into a public spectacle. shut up! converting their fears and feuds into a televisual exhibition. guests go on willingly, and generally know what they're getting into. one hardy perennial of the show is the lie—detector test. lying, cheating horrible person! 63—year—old steve dymond underwent one of these in an episode filmed the week before last. its broadcast was cancelled in the wake of his death. dymond's former fiance said they went on the show to do the test, to see if he was unfaithful.

i knew he was going to fail it, because i held his hand and there was just nothing there. it was like he knew he was going to fail, and i knew it as well. having taken the show off air, and removed archive from its catch—up service, itv reiterated that staff were shocked and saddened at the news of the death of a participant in the show. others weren't surprised. the genre of tv that is based on the theatre of cruelty, i don't think fits any more. exploiting the vulnerable who are on the edge — and some of them will be pushed off the edge — can hardly be a surprise. in a competitive environment, jeremy kyle's show is a ratings success. the question is, at what price? and amol is here now. ijust wonder, is i just wonder, is there a ijust wonder, is there a question over this kind of programme? several members of the government appear to hope so. tory mps have lined up today either to call for an independent review of the genre or

to say that the programme should be taken off the, or both. the response to the death has revealed a disconnect between those who want the show off the and don't watch it, and those who do watch it and see something of their own lives reflected in the guests. it is a problem for itv what to do. they will have to balance the reputational damage of keeping the show on airand reputational damage of keeping the show on air and the commercial problem of replacing the show with something that will be less successful. whatever they do, it will be a while before we see a lie detector on british tv again. thank you. the man who accused a string of high profile politicians and public figures of being paedophiles has gone on trial in newcastle. carl beech — who was known as nick — is accused of lying about "three child murders, multiple rapes, kidnapping, false imprisonment and widespread sexual abuse". beech, who is 51 and from gloucester, denies the charges. june kelly has our report. carl beech is said to have wanted those he accused to face court but

110w those he accused to face court but now it is him who is in the dock. his allegations of a vip paedophile ring operating in london and beyond led to a £2 million enquiry by scotla nd led to a £2 million enquiry by scotland yard. i heard the car, the engine. and as i turned around to see what the noise was, it hit him. today the jury was shown carl beech in police interviews claiming he seemed a friend called scott killed by the group. he said they drove a car at by the group. he said they drove a carat him. by the group. he said they drove a car at him. there was a lot of blood. i had blood on my hands. and i was dragged away and put in the back of a car. carl beech went to the police following the jimmy savile scandal, and said he was a victim ofjimmy savile. the

prosecution said he caused immeasurable distress to those he accused including lord bramall, a former chief of defence staff, lord britain who, as leon britton, served as home secretary, and the former tory mp harvey proctor, who he claimed had stabbed a child to death in front of him. he named the former conservative prime ministers edward heath and another politician, lord janner, as well as michael hanley, once head of m15 and maurice oldfield, a former boss of m16. prosecutors told the court that he claimed he had witnessed... he also told detectives that a 15—year—old who disappeared in the late 70s, martin allen, had been killed by the gang. another false

allegation and another family impacted, said the prosecution. it can now be reported that carl beech fled to sweden while he was awaiting trial. this was him after he was detained there. he denies perverting the course of justice detained there. he denies perverting the course ofjustice and fraud. june kelly, bbc news, at newcastle crown court. let's take a look at some of today's other news. high courtjudges have ordered that stephen yaxley—lennon, known as tommy robinson, should face full contempt of court proceedings. it's alleged the english defence league founder could have prejudiced a jury after posts he published on social media last year. the think tank once of runaway incomes for high earners but rises in what it calls deaths of despair among the poorest. the rate of unemployment among women fell to 3.7% in the first three months of the year,

the lowest since comparable records began in 1971. for men, the rate was 3.9 %, lowest since mid—1975. police! the threat from organised criminal gangs is "staggering", according to the head of the national crime agency, who says the uk must invest more in the fight against organised crime. lynne owens says her annual budget needs to double, to over £1 billion. manchester city say they're fully co—operating with an investigation into whether the club broke financial fair play rules. it's thought city could be banned from the champions league if they're found guilty. the club has always denied any wrongdoing. let's get the latest from our sports editor dan roan at the etihad stadium. you'd better just you'd betterjust described to us, explain what these fair play rules are. they were brought in by uefa several years ago to try to deter clu bs several years ago to try to deter

clubs from spending beyond their means, and to limit their losses. for the last few, they've been examining evidence first presented by the german newspaper spiegal, documents leaked which they claim that manchester city may have breached those regulations by artificially inflating sponsorship deals with their principal sponsor, etihad airlines. manchester city todayissued etihad airlines. manchester city today issued a very strongly worded statement in which they say they fully cooperated with the enquiry. they said they were deeply concerned at the possibility of the league from uefa and they said they provided evidence to show they were innocent. it is understood that the panel have concluded, several members of it, that a season long ban from the champions league would bea ban from the champions league would be a suitable punishment. the final decision on what recommended punishment should be submitted, however, rests with the chairman of the panel and he's yet to reach the

decision. it should come later this week. it won't be a quick process. it may be that city will appeal, perhaps go to the court of arbitration for sport. there's no doubt it would be a pretty serious reputational blow for a club that's desperate to win european football's most prestigious club competition, which is trying to prepare for the fa cup final at the weekend. fire on the verge of an unprecedented domestic treble. there are investigations from the fa and fifa also on how they signed young players. thank you. the first person stabbed in the london bridge attack two years ago has described how he came "nose to nose" with one of the attackers. richard livett, who'd been out watching football, first thought he had witnessed a road accident when he saw a van crash into railings. today he told the inquests into the deaths of eight victims about the chaotic scenes at the time. our home affairs correspondent daniel sandford reports. after fatally injuring two people on london bridge, the three

attackers smashed their van into railings, narrowly missing richard livett. he told the inquest today... french chef sebastien belanger had spent that night watching the champions league final in a nearby pub. minutes later he was heading down these stairs when the three men started stabbing him, still attacking him as he fled into the boro bistro. then witnesses saw alexandre pigeard, a waiter from the restaurant, running alongside this wall, clutching his neck. one of the attackers shouted "you are unbelievers". they were seen working in formation, cornering and stabbing customers as they went, including two women. eyewitness jack baxter

told the coroner. dervish gashi was working at cafe brood that night. as the attackers left, he saw them stab sebastien belanger again, one of them saying, "this is for allah". he then looked up at him for two or three seconds as if wondering what to do next, before heading back up the stairs onto borough high street. he followed them and as they went down the road, they acted quite normally, as if nothing had happened. by the time the men left the boro bistro, five people were dying from stab wounds. but still they were looking for more people to kill. daniel sandford, bbc news, at the old bailey. our top story this evening: the digital messaging

service whatsapp says it's working to improve security after it was hacked. this video of a syrian refugee being bullied at school went viral. he and his family had to move home. now they talk to us. coming up on sportsday on bbc news: why england head coach tracey neville could be counting the cost ahead of the netball world cup, with injury forcing beth cobden out of this summer's tournament. for years now the government has encouraged us to install smart meters to monitor our gas and electric usage. now research by the bbc has discovered that more than 2 million of these devices are not working. that amounts to £1.7 billion being spent on meters that are not doing the job they're supposed to — and we are paying through our energy bills. our consumer affairs correspondent colletta smith has the story. i want to live in a world where we still have polar bears. we all want to make big

changes to help our planet. that's what more than 1a million of us have tried to do by installing a smart metre. we are under pressure to get one. you might have seen the advert or been called or emailed by your energy company. but things aren't working out as perfectly as you might think. we've discovered that 2.3 million smart metres installed in homes across the uk are not working. that's 50% of all smart metres which have now turned dumb or not been connected. -- 1596. i will show you where the smart metre is which is a nice little box outside. andy's meter was only put in a couple of months ago but it's never worked. it's a nice shiny new meter but it doesn't actually work if you press any of these buttons. a useless piece of plastic in the house. a metre that i can't read any more, i'm just feeling very frustrated. they don't seem to have the slightest interest once you have had the box ticked that you have had

the actual smart metre installed in whether it actually works and is doing thejob for me, the customer. andy is not alone. i have been in touch with people across the country, like bridie from halifax, who is finding that her meter is often on the brink. and like anyone who switches, judith from cambridge and mark from marlow found that their meter stopped working when they changed supplier. it only works with the people who fitted it. how smart is that? the government say work is under way to make sure devices stay smart when switching. energy uk, which represents energy companies, adds that 800,000 second—generation meters are now being installed. but even those meters aren't able to switch between providers so for now more than two million useless boxes are adding to the clutter of our kitchens. a syrian boy who was attacked at his school has told the bbc he's worried about being recognised and attacked again. a video ofjamal being bullied went viral last year — and led to the prime minister condemning the attack.

jamal and his father have spoken to our correspondent sima kotecha in their first broadcast interview since moving to a different part of the country. a moment at a huddersfield school that put jamal onto the public stage. posted on social media, showing the teenager from syria being bullied. he was pushed to the ground and water was poured onto his face. it was viewed millions of times online. why did this happen to me? i didn't do anything. seven months on and jamal told us he still bears the psychological scars. he didn't want to show his face over fears he would be attacked again. ifeel like i don't want to tell people who i am. you're scared it might happen again? yeah, i'm scared somebody doesn't like to see me or something and do anything to me. his family say they had hoped for a better life here afterfacing constant violence back home.

afterjamal‘s video went viral there was an outpouring of support. a crowdfunding page raised more than £150,000. the family used it to move home after getting numerous death threats. through an interpreter the father told us he would still rather be in syria. he also chose to not show his face. translation: i would have rather died than see my child being treated like that. it is months since the attack and yet they still feel alienated and alone. before i came here i knew britain was a safe place. you can complete your education. your future will be better. but when i came and the problems happened with me i feel like it is a lot different. i felt like if i stayed in syria staying in syria is a lot better than here.

his parents say they want their children to be educated here and so will not be returning to syria. in just over a week's time we'll be voting in the european elections. it's a poll many thought would not happen, but a delay to brexit means we'll be electing 73 members of the european parliament at a cost our deputy political editor john pienaar has been to york to find out what voters there are thinking. pick a look, make a statement, it's party time again. not easy to make brexit much fun just now but everyone can express themselves in the euro elections. back the old order, choose the real people's party. are the scare stories real? and a big question now, are more people keen to shop around and stay loyal to the big parties?

—— than stay loyal. like miles the fancy dress shop owner in remain—supporting york. i feel really bad that we are leaving the eu. it's bad for business. it's bad for the country. the referendum promised unicorns. it's not a unicorn. it's a donkey with an ice cream cone on its head. i'm going to vote for a remain party but ijust don't know who right now. so you are going to take a pick. it's a bit like shopping. it is. i'm going to take my pick and decide on that. but you can love what's traditional and still want change. beloved habits die hard but it happens. which way are you leaning? i am a fully paid—up member of the conservative party. you are voting tory. so... sorry, i didn't say that. are you voting in the european elections? icertainly am. for whom? ijustjoined the brexit party and i will be voting brexit. have i strayed into a brexit party meeting here? let me ask you, with a show of hands, who here is a conservative who has turned against the tories in europe? ok, that's quite a few of you. all the parties, to be fair,

are all over the place but the one that i feel can deliver perhaps still is the conservative party. at the moment i will give them the benefit of the doubt. you are a tribal tory for now. for now, yes. i believe in labour. i believe in their policies. you are sticking with them? yes. tribal loyalty? i don't know about tribal loyalty. it feels right. lifelong labour supporter. i am concerned that the party's policy is not clear on brexit. i am thinking of voting for green in the eu elections because there is a clarity and a vision and a set of values that i respect. you sound to me like you are a labour man to your bootstraps. yes, i am, i am. these are difficult times. brexit cuts across all kinds of loyalties. you are nodding. i think that the two party system now is completely fractured and ironically because of brexit we are moving further towards a european kind of system where you have lots of coalitions

and parties working together from different sort of sides of the argument. what seems loud and clear now is everyone is improvising in politics. and any number canjoin in and play. ruby walsh has been called one of the greatest jump jockeys of all time, he's ridden some of the most famous horses in the sport's history, and was "leading jockey" at the cheltenham festival 11 times. this month he announced his retirement from the sport and today he turns a0. richard conway went to ireland to meet him. a final winner, the last in a glorious career for ruby walsh. but retirement? well, it brings certain benefits, including a guilt—free visit to his local pub to reflect on his decision. the last sort of 20 yards — that's just under three strides —

i was thinking, "he's going to win and this is it." but i was happy. i wasn't, those last 20 yards, thinking, "oh, no!" i was thinking, "this is going to happen." what is the overriding emotion that you have? i'm proud of what i did. i don't have regrets. i don't have regrets because i was never afraid to make a mistake. occasionally, those mistakes lead to injury. this heavy fall in 2018 just one of a number which resulted in at least 15 broken bones, a ruptured spleen and a crushed vertebra. the horse was unharmed, going on to win this year's cheltenham gold cup. but for the jockey, a period of reflection. i think that was the straw that broke the camel's back, as they say. but i kind of held my head the next time, on the sideline, "this is going to be my choice. i ain't going to be on them forever." he insists there will be no comeback, but winning the grand national on papillon — aged just 19, trained by dad ted — will linger long in the memory. and papillon wins the martell grand national for ruby walsh and ted walsh...

thinking back to that day in 2000, though, as good a day as it ever gets. it's just one of those days where you seem to be able to remember everything about it, even though it's 19 years ago. i didn't know what i'd won. i didn't realise the magnitude of what i had done, even at the time but... it was just incredible. writing and broadcasting on racing awaits. and with that comes opinions about standards of welfare and safety. there will always be an element of risk in national horse racing, for horse and jockey. i think they've got a huge distance with it, and i think it's only right that they've had to. but they cannot remove the risk. we may, then, have seen the last of ruby walsh in the saddle, but his own finishing post within the sport is still some distance away. richard conway, bbc news, kilcullen, ireland. time for a look at the weather. here's nick miller.

it has been a gorgeous spring day and we will do it again tomorrow. the highlands of scotland have been the warmest place in the uk and it may get warmer tomorrow, the warmest day of the week. changes waited in the week. after the warmth and sunshine of the day temperatures dip away tonight to around four or 7 degrees for most of us. a few spots in east anglia the coldest rural sports that may end up close to freezing. if mist and fog patches in the eastern side of england. tomorrow you can see land and very little else which means most of us will have a sunny day. a little bit of patchy cloud over the pennines into scotland. the breeze coming into scotland. the breeze coming into the north sea coast along the english channel holding us to 15 or 16 degrees but in northern scotland 24 16 degrees but in northern scotland 2a or 25 could be yours. then those changes. high pressure keeping us fine at the moment gets pushed away.

a stronger wind later in the week and cloud and a few showers heading our way. it is going to be hit and miss. i feel our way. it is going to be hit and miss. ifeel for our way. it is going to be hit and miss. i feel for scotland and perhaps northern ireland on thursday. more cloud building across the uk although england and wales being mostly dry. temperatures coming down and a stronger easterly wind. by friday it looks like still some sunshine in scotland on friday and a few sunny spells elsewhere but showers mostly towards england and wales. showers especially on saturday but we get rid of the strong easterly wind. that's all from the bbc news at six, so it's goodbye from me, and on bbc one we nowjoin the bbc‘s news teams where you are.

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