and the eurovision song contest semifinal is taking place in israel tonight, our moscow correspondent and eurovision superfan steve rosenberg will bring you some of the magic later in the programme. good evening and welcome to bbc news. 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 messages are private. now they re finding out that attackers could have used one missed call to plant spywa re on their phones to monitor their every move. this seems to be quite a sophisticate
which is backed by a coalition of countries led by saudi arabia. a warning, this reoport from the bbc‘s chief international correspondent, lyse doucet, does contain some distressing scenes. a vital lifeline for a nation on the brink of famine. nearly all of yemen s aid comes through here. the houthis control this port and two others nearby. now they say they are pulling out theirfighters. if they do, it s the first step in the deal reached in stockholm in december, hailed then as a rare breakthrough. you have reached an agreement which will see a mutual redeployment of forces from the port and the establishment of a ceasefire. now the deal is on the verge of collapse. so is yemen, a country facing what the un calls the world s worst humanitarian crisis. images like this have shocked the world. not enough to end a brutal war between houthis aligned to iran and yemen government forces backed by a saudi led coalition and armed by the west. earlier this year we saw how a fragil
an indeterminate date in the future, but now. on the day the uk had been supposed to leave the eu, thousands of leave supporting demonstrators gathered in westminster to protest against the brexit delay. in brussels, the eu says it regrets the decision in wesminster, and says the probability of a no deal brexit on april the 12th is now a likely scenario . and in half an hour, we ll be addressing viewers‘ comments about bbc news coverage, including asking how extensively marches like last saturday s people s vote demo should be covered. that s in newswatch. good evening, on what should have been the day we left the european union. instead, in dramatic scenes this afternoon, mps voted for the third time to reject the prime minister s brexit deal. mps were told this was their last chance to deliver the kind of brexit people voted for. but it wasn t enough to persuade them, 286 mps voted yes, 344 voted no, the prime minister lost by 58 votes. theresa may said it was a matt
partick thistle are also through. welcome to bbc london news. a london the structure will be replaced by a new branch of a different design. carolyn rigby has more. if the demolition project described by italy s transport minister as the image of the country s revival. thousands of tonnes of steel and concrete work removed from the bridge in order to make it lighter before a huge crane began to carefully lower the first section to the ground. decked out in a red hard the ground. decked out in a red hard the italian prime minister looked on. translation: it s an important day because this is the first step of a path that i hope will be the quickest possible. but we can say today, and i spoke with all the demolition companies, is that the new bridge will be up by the end of the year. the deconstruction process is expected to last around six months. and engineers will draw on heavy machinery previously used to write the cruise liner which capsized off the coast of tuscany in 201
in our country stays out of party politics. the family of a 14 year old boy who died after he was hit by a car on the m67 motorway say they are completely heartbroken . also in the next hour barclays bank says it will no longer offer a russian anti virus software programme free to customers. it follows fears that kaspersky lab products could be exploited by the kremlin. australia narrowly beat england in brisbane by six points to nil to lift the rugby league world cup. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. president trump has insisted there was absolutely no collusion between his campaign team and moscow before he was elected. it s his first public comments since his former national security adviser michael flynn admitted lying to the fbi over contacts with russian officials. us media reports suggest flynn told prosecutors he was instructed to approach russia s ambassador to the us by a seniorfigure in the trump transition team. michael flynn, a retired three star