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:00:09. > :00:19.Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, has died at the

:00:19. > :00:22.

:00:22. > :00:25.age of 82. One small step for man. One giant

:00:25. > :00:28.leap for mankind. The astronaut's family tonight

:00:28. > :00:31.described him as a "reluctant American hero" who had served his

:00:31. > :00:33.nation proudly. Another look at GCSE gradings by

:00:34. > :00:40.the exams regulator, amid claims that thousands of students have

:00:40. > :00:42.been treated unfairly. A major legal victory for Apple as

:00:42. > :00:51.a US court fines Samsung �650 million for copyright infringement

:00:51. > :01:01.of its smartphones and tablets. A perfect ten, Hampshire beat

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:01:17. > :01:20.Yorkshire by ten runs to win County Good evening. Neil Armstrong, the

:01:20. > :01:22.first man to set foot on the moon, has died. He was 82 and had

:01:22. > :01:25.recently suffered complications from heart bypass surgery.

:01:25. > :01:27.Armstrong was just 38 years old in July 1969 when, as commander of the

:01:27. > :01:36.Apollo 11 mission, he delivered perhaps one of the best known

:01:36. > :01:40.phrases in the English language. His moonwalk marked America's first

:01:40. > :01:50.major victory in the Cold War space race. Our Science Correspondent

:01:50. > :01:53.Pallab Ghosh looks back at a remarkable man.

:01:53. > :01:58.President Obama called him one of the greatest American heroes of all

:01:58. > :02:03.time. In July of 1969 the world watched

:02:03. > :02:13.as Neil Armstrong became the first man to set foot on the moon.

:02:13. > :02:19.small step for man. One giant leap for mankind.

:02:19. > :02:25.The commander of the Apollo 11 mission had earlier manually

:02:25. > :02:32.piloted the lunar vehicle was just seconds of fuel to spare.

:02:32. > :02:37.The Eagle Has landed. To the obvious relief of mission control.

:02:37. > :02:41.We are breeding again, thanks a lot. Tonight his family said, we mourn

:02:41. > :02:46.the loss of a very good man and also celebrate his remarkable wife

:02:46. > :02:50.and hope that serves as an example to young people around the world.

:02:50. > :02:55.And the man who walked beside him on the lunar surface issued his own

:02:55. > :02:59.tribute. I was fortunate to be one of those

:02:59. > :03:06.crew members to fly with an outstanding test pilot, Neil

:03:06. > :03:11.Armstrong, and accompany him on the lunar module. He was a great

:03:11. > :03:16.spokesman and leader in the space programme. A pilot from the age of

:03:16. > :03:21.16, Neil Armstrong flew 70 it missions during the Korean War

:03:21. > :03:26.before working as a test pilot at Edwards Air Force base. He was

:03:26. > :03:32.chosen as an astronaut for the Gemini programme, bringing his

:03:32. > :03:37.spacecraft safely to earth in March 1966 after it got out of control

:03:37. > :03:42.re-entering the atmosphere. Though painfully shy, his professional

:03:42. > :03:46.approach and coolness under pressure, shown here when he

:03:46. > :03:51.injected during training, made him a natural choice to command an

:03:51. > :03:55.Apollo mission. Following his return to the moon, Neil Armstrong

:03:55. > :04:02.became a reclusive figure, working as a professor at the University of

:04:02. > :04:07.Cincinnati. On the 30th anniversary of his historic landing he made a

:04:07. > :04:13.rare public appearance. The important achievement of the

:04:13. > :04:19.Apollo mission was a demonstration that humanity is not forever

:04:19. > :04:25.chained to this planet. Our visions go further than that and our

:04:25. > :04:29.opportunities are unlimited. years later the Apollo 11 crew were

:04:29. > :04:34.celebrated five President Obama celebrating the 40th anniversary of

:04:34. > :04:40.their mission. The White House was already making plans to scrap the

:04:40. > :04:44.space shuttle programme. When I met Neil Armstrong later that year he

:04:44. > :04:49.would not speak out publicly against a decision that angered him

:04:49. > :04:53.and many of his Apollo astronauts. Although the flag was American, it

:04:53. > :04:59.was a moment that belonged to the world, bringing together the

:04:59. > :05:03.warring planet and showing us all what he Mountie could achieve.

:05:03. > :05:09.-- humanity. In a moment we'll get more from Pallab. But first let's

:05:09. > :05:15.speak to our correspondent Alastair Leithead in Los Angeles. What has

:05:15. > :05:19.the reaction been? As soon as people heard the news there was a

:05:19. > :05:24.moment's silence at the Los Angeles Observer tree here. And we have

:05:24. > :05:28.just had a statement from the White House. President Obama say he was

:05:28. > :05:33.one of the greatest of American heroes of all time. He delivered

:05:33. > :05:38.the moment of human achievement that will never be forgotten. He

:05:38. > :05:44.was a man of few words, but what words they were. He was never

:05:44. > :05:48.comfortable with the media attention he got. He left the space

:05:48. > :05:55.agency just a year after that historic mission. And he did not go

:05:55. > :05:58.into politics, but academia. He spoke out only rarely at

:05:58. > :06:04.anniversaries and the like. But there was one moment where he

:06:04. > :06:07.appeared in Congress to speak quite critically of President Obama for

:06:07. > :06:10.cutting the manned space flight. That was something that was close

:06:10. > :06:17.to his heart. Our science correspondent, Pallab

:06:17. > :06:23.Ghosh, is with me in the studio. Neil Armstrong did something huge

:06:23. > :06:29.nationally and also for the world. President Obama called him a great

:06:29. > :06:34.American hero but he was the hero for the world. When he set foot on

:06:34. > :06:41.the moon it ended the space race. But it also brought the world

:06:41. > :06:44.together. It just showed what we could achieve working together. It

:06:45. > :06:49.led to the International Space Station. And it seemed that all

:06:49. > :06:56.things seemed possible at that moment in time. You met him a

:06:56. > :07:01.couple of times. What was he like? He was at shy man. But what struck

:07:01. > :07:07.me was his humanity. He went out and did her job and when he

:07:07. > :07:11.finished that he went on to be an ambassador. But he was such an

:07:11. > :07:19.optimist. I was able to ask him, what ever happened to the Armstrong

:07:19. > :07:21.dream. He said, it will come back in time.

:07:21. > :07:25.Neil Armstrong, who died from complications after heart bypass

:07:25. > :07:27.surgery. The exams regulator, Ofqual, is to

:07:28. > :07:32.look again at GCSE gradings amid claims that thousands of students

:07:32. > :07:36.have been treated unfairly. The move comes amid threats of

:07:36. > :07:37.legal action from local authorities and teachers. They're complaining

:07:37. > :07:42.that English entries were particularly unfair, with a change

:07:42. > :07:52.in grade boundaries between January and June in England and Wales. With

:07:52. > :07:52.

:07:52. > :07:55.more details, here's our deputy political editor, James Landale.

:07:55. > :08:03.Are the class of 2012 paying the price for decades of grade

:08:03. > :08:08.inflation? Some think so and want the results to be independently

:08:08. > :08:17.investigated and even tested in the courts. We are working with other

:08:17. > :08:19.organisations asking for urgent investigations. If we are not

:08:20. > :08:22.satisfied by the response, we are determined to take this forward and

:08:22. > :08:27.we are looking at grounds for a legal challenge, we feel so

:08:27. > :08:37.aggrieved about what has happened to these young people.

:08:37. > :08:38.

:08:39. > :08:40.Top-grade GCSE passes fell this year for the first time since 1986.

:08:41. > :08:43.Some teachers believe that the goalposts were moved unfairly in

:08:43. > :08:51.English. Some pupils taking the exam at different times faced

:08:51. > :08:56.different standards, they claim. Jude men's went into that

:08:56. > :09:05.examination in good faith and had little chance of obtaining a C

:09:05. > :09:08.grade or higher. That is not acceptable. This afternoon the

:09:08. > :09:10.exams watchdog finally responded to this pressure and said in a letter,

:09:10. > :09:15.we are acting on these concerns and looking closely in the coming days

:09:15. > :09:19.at the detail of the grades and the boundary setting for English GCSEs.

:09:19. > :09:29.We become better writers if we are enthusiastic readers...

:09:29. > :09:33.

:09:33. > :09:35.The education secretary has denied putting the watchdog under pressure.

:09:35. > :09:37.But the Labour Party are still saying that they welcome the

:09:37. > :09:46.inquiry and it should be comprehensive and they still want

:09:46. > :09:50.an independent inquiry by MPs. The promise of an inquiry gives pupils

:09:50. > :09:56.a small chink of hope and lifts the pressure of the government, but

:09:56. > :09:58.only for now. Greece will stay in the Eurozone.

:09:58. > :10:00.That was the message from both the Greek prime minister, Antonis

:10:00. > :10:03.Samaras, and French president, Francois Hollande today after talks

:10:03. > :10:06.on the country's economic crisis in Paris. Greece is continuing to push

:10:06. > :10:12.for more time to implement major spending cuts in return for more

:10:13. > :10:19.European bailout money, as Mark Lowen reports.

:10:19. > :10:24.He arrived in Paris in his country's hour of need. The Greek

:10:24. > :10:27.President reaching out to a more prosperous European partner. From

:10:27. > :10:32.the French president he got reassurance that Greece must stay

:10:32. > :10:36.in the euro but needs to commit to the terms of the bail-out. The

:10:36. > :10:41.Greek prime minister asked for more time to cut the deficit. France and

:10:41. > :10:44.Germany say that depends on future progress.

:10:45. > :10:50.TRANSLATION: people keep speculating that Greece will not

:10:50. > :10:55.make it, that it will not be able to remain in the euro-zone. I came

:10:55. > :11:00.here to say that Greece will make The Greek president faces the

:11:00. > :11:05.daunting Challenge, to cut deeper to secure the bail-out money while

:11:05. > :11:09.trying to buy time to lighten the austerity. If he does not get that

:11:09. > :11:13.concession, protests here will grow. The anti bail-out opposition would

:11:13. > :11:18.be strengthened and his government could start to look fragile. The

:11:18. > :11:21.Prime Minister is under pressure to stem Greece's decline and start to

:11:21. > :11:28.heal this bruised country. One- third of the population has been

:11:28. > :11:35.pushed below the poverty line. Unemployment is that 23% and crime

:11:35. > :11:45.has soared. Suicides, too. Businesses are feeling the heat.

:11:45. > :11:52.The business is down 60%. We paid too much in taxes. The way we live

:11:52. > :11:57.right now is very hard. recession is breeding anger here

:11:57. > :12:01.and a peer of the future. Europe's patience with Greece is wearing

:12:01. > :12:06.thin and if the pain does not ease, this country's patience with its

:12:06. > :12:08.own government might soon run out. A key commander of one of

:12:08. > :12:13.Afghanistan's most powerful groups is reported to have been killed in

:12:13. > :12:15.a US drone strike in Pakistan. The Haqqani network has been behind

:12:15. > :12:21.some of the most high profile attacks, including the assault on

:12:21. > :12:28.the US embassy last September. Badruddin Haqqani, who was the son

:12:28. > :12:31.of the network's founder, masterminded many of the strikes.

:12:31. > :12:36.All nine of the bystanders injured outside the Empire State building

:12:36. > :12:38.in New York yesterday were wounded by police gunfire. The police

:12:38. > :12:45.opened fire in rush hour in Manhattan after a gunman shot dead

:12:45. > :12:47.a former co-worker on Fifth Avenue. Apple is to seek injunctions

:12:47. > :12:50.against the sale of dozens of Samsung smartphones and tablets in

:12:50. > :12:51.the US after a court ordered its South Korean rival to pay more than

:12:51. > :12:56.�650 million in damages for infringing Apple's intellectual

:12:56. > :12:59.property. Samsung says it will appeal the

:12:59. > :13:02.ruling. As Dominic Laurie reports, the case

:13:02. > :13:12.is seen as the most important of a number of patent disputes between

:13:12. > :13:16.

:13:16. > :13:19.the two companies. No wonder the lawyer for Apple is smiling. In the

:13:19. > :13:21.complex world of patent law, this was an unusually clear verdict that

:13:21. > :13:27.left the Samsung team frustrated. My reaction to the ruling is that

:13:27. > :13:34.we're disappointed. Samsung says it plans to appeal. But far more

:13:34. > :13:42.serious are the patents governing how the smartphone works.

:13:42. > :13:50.This technology experts explains what the jury were looking at.

:13:50. > :13:54.Apple had claimed things like pinch to zoom. All these are fundamental

:13:54. > :14:00.to using a smartphone. The victory in California may worry some of

:14:00. > :14:07.Apple's competitors. It has already said it is seeking the ban on the

:14:07. > :14:09.import of several Samsung products into the United States. If they

:14:09. > :14:19.succeed, some models could be pulled from shelves around the

:14:19. > :14:21.

:14:21. > :14:27.world. It is a question many consumers will be concerned about.

:14:27. > :14:29.Apple really has led in the design area within the user interface.

:14:29. > :14:32.Now we will have to see other vendors looking at design elements

:14:32. > :14:42.as well which means we will have multiple options coming forward. So

:14:42. > :14:45.

:14:45. > :14:52.it is good for the consumer. Many commentators say this is the most

:14:52. > :14:58.decisive judgment they have ever seen. That the court's decision

:14:58. > :15:01.could even benefit it in the long run.

:15:01. > :15:10.Sport now and for a full round up of all the day's action, here's

:15:10. > :15:14.Karthi at the BBC Sport Centre. Hampshire have beaten Yorkshire in

:15:14. > :15:19.the 2010 final for the first time in three years. No matter how you

:15:19. > :15:24.dress it up, county cricket does not hold attention as it once did.

:15:24. > :15:34.But this is quite a different beast to your average county match. It is

:15:34. > :15:37.

:15:37. > :15:43.a game of rapidly changing fortunes. Hampshire have got to 150, but no

:15:43. > :15:53.further. The success of Yorkshire would depend on pacing themselves.

:15:53. > :16:02.But they were forced into several emergency stops.

:16:02. > :16:07.They ended up just 10 runs short of the title. Just the finish that

:16:07. > :16:11.county cricket needed. Match Of the Day follows us on BBC One so if you

:16:11. > :16:15.do not want to know the scorers in the Premier League today, pop out

:16:15. > :16:19.for a moment. Wayne Rooney could be out for up to four weeks after

:16:20. > :16:27.suffering a cut to his leg after the crash with Fulham. Robin Van

:16:27. > :16:32.Persie made his full debut as United had to come from behind to

:16:32. > :16:37.beat Fulham. Just three teams still within 100%

:16:37. > :16:44.record. Everton shaking off their slow start with a win over Aston

:16:44. > :16:54.Villa. Ed and has are was the star for Chelsea in their victory over

:16:54. > :16:56.

:16:56. > :17:01.In the Scottish Premier League Celtic one dominant form as they

:17:01. > :17:09.completed a 4 - 2 victory over Inverness Caledonian Thistle. Tony

:17:09. > :17:19.what impressed with Celtic in his first start with the club.

:17:19. > :17:23.

:17:23. > :17:29.And Ross County boat -- beat Dundee Warrington Wolves beat Leeds Rhinos

:17:29. > :17:36.Adam Wembley to win the Challenge Cup in rugby league for the first

:17:36. > :17:41.time in three years. This try came from Chris Riley and saw them

:17:41. > :17:47.establish an unassailable lead. It is the eighth time they have won

:17:47. > :17:53.the trophy. And congratulations to Mo Farah on the birth of his twin

:17:53. > :17:58.daughters today. He will appear in Birmingham tomorrow and you can

:17:58. > :18:02.watch that live from 2 o'clock on BBC Two. That is all from the

:18:02. > :18:05.Sports Centre for now. The main news tonight. Neil