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services in england. the cloud in the arena knows, 11 months ago... england's hopes of reaching their first netball world cup final have been dashed — after they were beaten by a—time winners new zealand in liverpool. that's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind... it's 50 years ago today that neil armstrong took the giant leap to become the first man to walk on the moon. sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here's ben. good evening. only one place to start this evening, and that is at the netball world cup. as you've just seen england have failed to land a place in the final. the roses losing their semi—final to new zealand, 47—45. kate grey was watching in liverpool. kate, a heartbreaking afternoon for the tournament hosts.

yeah, it's been hugely disappointing here in liverpool. losing to new zealand by the smallest of margins. many believe this england team could go all the way in this tournament. they had been unbeaten up until the semi final, looking very clearly and very smooth, but unfortunately they came into the match and clearly felt the pressure. they made a lot of m ista kes pressure. they made a lot of mistakes in the early phases, and new zealand took an early lead of five goals in five minutes. then england managed to settle those nerves a little, and they got a three goal lead at half—time, but then the mistakes kept on coming. the shooters were not in their usual top form, joe harton missing a number of crucial shots, and serena just not turning over the ball like she has done in previous matches. u nfortu nately, she has done in previous matches. unfortunately, new zealand proved too strong, they were incredibly calm and composed throughout the match, and their experience, you know, really shown true on the

courts, and they held onto their lead to win it 47—45. as you imagine, there was huge disappointment here in the arena, the cloud didn't quite know what to do, and tracy knebel will have to lift her roses ready for their bronze medal match tomorrow. but let's hear her reflections after the match. i think new zealand came out really strong in that first quarter. and i think they brought it, and we didn't learn our lessons quick enough, and i think they seem to be chasing the game, which is something we have not done during this tournament. is down to legs? misunderstanding? or a build—up of pressure? they did a great job on those. i think there are opportunities for us to take that game, and we left it too late. that's right. they just wasn't enough in the final stages. they will play the bronze match against south africa tomorrow, there was another semi final action today, australia beat south africa, and another thrilling match, which came

down to the very final few seconds. australia were playing another different seven combination, really mixing it up at this tournament, and throwing some different challenges to the sides that they play. south africa had their opportunities. they had moments when they could have taken the lead, but the ever reliable defending champions, australia, once again managed to hold onto their lead. they beat south africa 55—53, and that they will now make it through to another netball world cup final. most people can remember, and they are the defending champions, they will be full of confidence, but new zealand after beating the host nation will be desperate to ta ke take the win as well. so not great for england, but the semi finals have been a thriller, of the day today, and deliverable cloud will just have to watch england in the bronze match metal tomorrow. certainly has been thrilling. kate live in liverpool, thank you. from the netball to golf. they call day three of the open, moving day.

and it's looking lively at the top of the leaderboard at royal portrush. american jb holmes and irishman shane lowry led overnight on eight under par. but how are they faring now? let's get over to adam wild, who's there for us... yet, or a really intriguing contest unfolding here at royal port rush. we knew it was going to be a very special open from the moment it was announced, that he was going to return to northern ireland for the first time since 1951. i think few people could have predicted just how special this event has been. the galleries, the fairways, have been a bsently galleries, the fairways, have been absently packed. i have never heard crowds quite so lively, so vociferous, supporting the players going around the holes. it's been quite extraordinary, the atmosphere, the roars and the cheers ringing out across the links here on the course way coast of northern ireland. and they have had plenty to cheer about today, it has been quite an extraordinary day. let me just bring you some of the stories that are

emerging. lee westwood, one shot off the lead going into this, the third day. he went off fantastically well, three birdies in the first three holes, but he did drop a shot coming down the eighth, now that is the first shot he has dropped since thursday afternoon. a measure of how well he has been playing here. he is 110w well he has been playing here. he is now on nine under par, as he comes down the 14th. there is a two way tie though at the top of the leaderboard, shane tie though at the top of the leaderboa rd, shane lowry tie though at the top of the leaderboard, shane lowry up there, the irishman, who is commanding a lot of the support that was given to roy mcelroy last night. they were disappointed when he missed the cut, mcelroy urged them to put their support behind shane lowery, and they have been showing just their support, 12 under par, he has a share of the lead with tommy fleetwood, the englishman, who was

five under par for his day, as fleetwood, the englishman, who was five under parfor his day, as he goes down to 1a. so things really very tight at the top. i should just mention some of the big movers on this moving day. the round of the day so far belongs to danny fleetwood, the englishman, of course, and danny willard, i beg your pardon, the englishman of course, former major winner himself. he went around and 65, that's the round of the day. rickie fowler, he has just joined round of the day. rickie fowler, he hasjustjoined him in the clubhouse, five under par leaves him. it is hugely tied to the top, it's going to be intriguing finale to this open championship. it's going to be intriguing finale to this open championshipm certainly is. adam live at port rush. thank you. for the second day running geraint thomas has suffered on the tour de france. his hopes of overhauling leaderjulian ala—philippe were dashed on stage 1a, one of the race's most iconic mountains, as nick parrott reports. the 14th stage on the tour de france is the most visited it's a challenge that can make or break a rider's overall race. after increasing his lead

on yesterday's time trial, alljulian alaphilippe had to do was stick to main rival, geraint thomas. the tour started 12 miles from the finish, and it was soon proving too much for some. adam yates' hopes of a top ten overall finish slipping away, along with those of colombia's quintana. for the rest of the contenders it turned into a game of cat and mouse, thomas tried to shake his shadow. but alaphilippe was having none of it. as the altitude crept up towards more than six and half thousand feet, the air was getting thin. the frenchman was gasping, but it was the britain who crashed with just over half a mile to go. thibault pinot was of the first to cross the finish line, but for alaphilippe getting second it felt like a victory, with thomas finishing eighth, more than 30 seconds behind. nick parrott, bbc news. elsewhere, it's a must win match for england against australia at taunton if they're to have any chance of winning the women's ashes,

but it's not looking good, australia declared on 420—8 and then took the important wicket of tammy beaumont for a duck. england captain heather knight helped the recovery but she went lbw for 28. amyjones made a terrific half—century for england, eventually going for 64. nat sciver followed with fifty of her own but england are currently 191—6 and the ashes appear to be slipping away. that's all the sport for now. we will have a full round up at 7:30pm with sportsday.

good evening. the foreign secretary, jeremy hunt, has expressed his "extreme disappointment" in a phone call to his iranian counterpart over the seizure of a british—registered tanker in the gulf yesterday. he said iran had failed to honour a pledge to reduce tensions in the area. germany, france, the netherlands and the eu have all called for the immediate release of the stena impero. iran has released a video which appears to show masked gunmen descending from a helicopter to board the tanker, as paul adams reports. this is the moment iranian revolutionary guards took

over the stena impero, descending from a helicopter onto the deck of the tanker, as fast boats circled nearby. iran says the ship had broken international regulations following an accident involving a fishing boat. the ships owners have not confirmed this and say it was obeying the law. it is now being held at the port of bandar abbas. we are calling on iran to reverse this illegal act. we are looking for ways to de—escalate the situation, but we are also very clear that we will do what it takes to ensure the safety and security of british and international shipping. the tanker was making its way through the busy strait of hormuz, in omani waters, when it was intercepted. it made a sharp turn north towards iran, a clear sign that something was wrong. the british warship hms montrose was alerted and raced to intervene, as it did successfully with another british—flagged tanker just over a week ago. but this time it was too far away.

the tanker was already in iranian waters. to allow a ship to go out when we knew the iranians wanted to actually take a hostage is extraordinary, and it's hardly surprising. they said they would do it, several times they said they would do it and, lo and behold, we've done it, and now we've got in this very difficult situation. tensions started to rise last year when donald trump pulled the us out of the 2015 nuclear deal with iran and imposed crippling sanctions. iran grew increasingly frustrated. in may and june, it was blamed for a series of attacks on international tankers. then, in a dramatic escalation, iran shot down an american surveillance drone. donald trump briefly contemplated a military response. and, earlier this month, off gibraltar, the royal marines intercepted a tanker full of iranian oil britain says was bound for syria. iran threatened to retaliate. today, iran's foreign minister accused britain of piracy.

the stena impero and its multinational crew, which does not include any britons, are now prisoners of iran's revolutionary guard, hostages in a deepening geopolitical row. there isn't much sign of a breakthrough so far. what we have oui’ breakthrough so far. what we have our two captured tankers and an angry warof our two captured tankers and an angry war of words. in his latest tweet, the foreign secretary, jeremy hunt, says he feels betrayed by his opposite number. he says he was assured last weekend, after the previous episode, that iran wanted to do de—escalate the situation, but they had behaved, as mr hunt says, in the opposite way. this has to be about actions, not words. british

shipping must and will be protected, he says. british airways has suspended all flights to cairo for seven days due to security concerns. passengers about to board a flight to the egyptian capital at heathrow were handed a letter saying the decision had been taken as a precaution to allow for further assessment. an estimated 415,000 british nationals visited egypt last year. police are hunting for two men after gas was released on a london underground train this morning. they've released cctv images of two people they want to trace. a number of people were treated at oxford circus station by paramedics. officers say their symptoms suggested that cs gas was used. netball, and england's hopes of reaching the world cup final are over, after narrowly losing to new zealand. the roses lost 45—117 and will now need to find a new coach as tracey neville had already announced she would step down after this tournament. natalie pirks reports

from liverpool. they say imitation is the highest form of flattery. tracey neville, who announced weeks ago she'd step down after this world cup, no longer has to bang her own drum. netball has to bang her own drum. netball has captivated this liverpool crowd, but england fans knew it would be tough. they were not wrong. ajumpy start soon saw new zealand race into the lead. this is a collector's item, yet it wouldn't be the last mistake. england's tournament swagger replaced by the jitters. mistake. england's tournament swagger replaced by thejitters. new zealand's shooters were on fire. the ferns cranking up the pressure. england needed their attackers to finally hit their mark and, in a quarter, england had turned a six goal deficit into a three goal lead. they threw that away. new zealand attack again, with all the answers. with minutes left, england were three goals down. mounts were dry.

with new zealand so brilliant at both ends of the court, the roses we re both ends of the court, the roses were left to rue the mistakes, going down 45—47. hot bread, with goals in it, but what about by a resurgent new zealand side. —— heartbreak, with goals in it. just a build-up of pressure, and they did a greatjob on us. pressure, and they did a greatjob on us. there were opportunities for us on us. there were opportunities for us to take that game, and we left it too late. the seventh match in nine days a step too far. world cup final remains elusive, for now. golf, and it's day three of the open championship. it's really close at the top of the leaderboard. let's get the latest from andy swiss at royal portrush. yes, welcome to royal portrush. we've had great conditions for the fa ns we've had great conditions for the fans today. pretty good conditions for the players as well. plenty of

low scoring, and the latest i can tell you is that ireland's shane lowry leads the way on 13 under par. he is so popular here, you can hear the cheers ringing around the course. he is one shot clear of tommy fleetwood, looking to become the first englishman to win the open championship since nick faldo back in 1992. behind him,‘sjb holmes. justin rose and lee westwood also very much in contention. of course, some big names are not here this weekend, because they missed the halfway cut. most notably, tiger woods and rory mcilroy. but the stage is still set for a thrilling final day tomorrow. celebrations are being held to commemorate the first manned lunarlanding. 50 years ago tonight, neil armstrong and buzz aldrin became the first human beings to set foot on the moon. it was a moment which brought the world together and inspired a generation.

pallab ghosh looks back at that day. the saturn 5 rocket shimmers on launchpad 39a at the cape canaveral space center. three astronauts get ready for a mission that will propel them and the rest of humanity into a new era. commander neil armstrong leads edwin "buzz" aldrin and mike collins into apollo 11. three, two, one... we have liftoff. neil armstrong reporting the roll and pitch programme which puts apollo 11 on a proper heading. they arrive at the moon four days later. as the lunar lander descends, neil armstrong notices that they are off—course. instead of the preplanned smooth landing site, there are dangerous boulders.

with fuel running low, commander armstrong takes manual control. the eagle has landed. roger, tranquillity. armstrong then descends onto the lunar surface. it's one small step for man... one giant leap for mankind. on tv all across the world, 600 million people were watching. it has a stark beauty all its own. it's like much of high desert of the united states. it's different, but it's very pretty out here. at the time, all things seemed possible, yet three years later the apollo programme ended and humans haven't been back since. it was america's flag planted, but this moment was an achievement for all humanity. pallab ghosh, bbc news. there's more throughout the evening on the bbc news channel. we're back with the late news at 10pm.

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built within budget. the department for transport says a review of the costs is continuing. -- 50 —— 50 years ago tonight, neil armstrong and buzz aldrin became the first humans to set foot on the moon. a short time ago, my colleague, the quest of uric spoke to libbyjackson, colleague, the quest of uric spoke to libby jackson, a colleague, the quest of uric spoke to libbyjackson, a british physicist and engineer, who's human expiration programme manager for the uk space agency, she says lessons are still being learned from that historic moment half a century ago.

since the end of the apollo times, we have spent the years learning how to live and work in space, we have had the international space station continuously inhabited since 2000. that's a lot not only to do brilliant science that benefits everybody back here on earth, but to develop the technologies that we need for going deeper out into the solar system. and so we are now reaching the point where having, i won't say master that, because there is always more to learn, space agencies around the world are now turning their attention to those next steps again, and for us to look out back towards the moon, and hopefully, one day onto mars.|j out back towards the moon, and hopefully, one day onto mars. i was going to say a lot of people are talking about mars, but since 72, we have not been back to the moon, so how is it that we can look forward to the red planet, and yet, we haven't really made any advances with our closest neighbour. that mars is the horizon go for space agencies, and it has been there for many years, going to the moon will allow us to drier technologies, try out how to live

and work in the radiation environment. we live on the earth, and we are protected by our magnetic field, from the solar wind in the cosmic radiation. humans who go back out onto the moon, and when they onto mars, are going to have to live in that. and there are other challenges that going to the moon is going to do. the uk is well—placed, and we are hoping to take a role in that, including providing some of the telecommunications to allow everybody to communicate when they are on the moon. libby, you say that the uk is well—placed. which is fantastic news. but let's look to the people who would be driving the some of space exploration. do we have the up and coming talent to, with that stem background? we do, we a lwa ys with that stem background? we do, we always need more, and we are very keen to encourage people to see that the space sector, which is thriving in the uk, is somewhere that people can come and work, and we need people with all sorts of different backgrounds, with ten peaks mentioned, we engage over 3 million children, directly, who were involved in activities. that was one

in three schools up and down the uk. they have seen that the space is somewhere for them, there's always more we can do, we are very keen for everybody to see that message. people are coming to the system, and the space sector is very well. within eight years, i understand, we went from having no one in space to a man walking on the moon. how realistic are we being about a moon village, or a moon settlement, and the timeframe for that? well niss i had been talking about putting humans back on the moon by 2024, the gateway will be being developed and built over the coming decade, and thatis built over the coming decade, and that is going to be what we need to sort of sustainably go to the moon. these missions are happening, they are going to be happening in the coming years, and i'm looking forward to the uk playing a role. coming years, and i'm looking forward to the uk playing a rolem must be very exciting as well, because effectively, what space exploration is doing is bringing together, unifying, many nations on

earth, because the european space agency says, you know, they want everybody involved. it doesn't matter about their political background. i mean that is a huge step, is that? the space arena is a place for international collaboration. these exploration missions that we do come in the uk asa missions that we do come in the uk as a part of the european space agency, are things that cannot be done by any one country alone, and certainly not by the uk alone, or by all of europe alone. we come together in an international context, and that has been one of the great things. we came from apollo and at the space race, with the united states and the soviet union were competing with each other to show their superiority, but they now work together on the international space station, they will work together, we think and we hope on the lunar gateway in coming yea rs. hope on the lunar gateway in coming years. and so space really is a place where it is much better when all the different countries work together. this is all going to cost, and it is costing, isn't it? i mean you work with the uk agency, is

there enough money out there? well we, the budget in the uk are perhaps surprisingly smaller than some people think. it costs about a pound per person per year, that's it, for the whole of our exploration endeavours, not just human, the whole of our exploration endeavours, notjust human, but the great robotic things we do. sending livers to go and investigate, if there is life on mars, and those sorts of things. and byjoining with our european friends, we come together, ourjob at the uk space agency is to make sure that the uk gets the most benefit we can from all of our space endeavours. that includes exploration, we don't do these things just because it's fun. there is always a good economic case there, business case, and great scientific return. we have got a very strong scientific community here in the uk, who are still looking at the apollo rocks that came back from those missions that we are talking about today. so there are great reasons for going there, and we are making sure that the funds that we put in are doing well for the uk. libby jackson from the uk space agency speaking to look

less short time ago. time for a look at the weather forecast with sarah. good evening. it's been a day for a contrast out there with the weather today. for many of us, beautiful blue skies, warm weather as well, this was the picture earlier on, cal shopin this was the picture earlier on, cal shop in hampshire, we have also had some big shower clouds, downpours, and thunderstorms around to come of this picture was taken in lincolnshire early on in the day, where we have had a lot of torrential downpour is, a lot of surface water, and big thunderstorms too. those showers across eastern england in eastern scotland now easing away, so for the rest of this evening into night, it is looking dry across really all of the uk. we have got long clear spells, the winds are falling later than they have been, and those temperatures are still pretty warm, in fact about ten to 14 degrees for most of us. so mild, fairly human start to your sunday morning. through the day and sunday, not looking like a bad day at all, lots of dry weather with some sunshine. from the northwest, frontal system is approaching. so that will bring rain to northern ireland in the morning come about

lunchtime, that rick rain will push across the rest of scotland. so this rained quite heavy at times, accompanied by a strengthening south—westerly wind, but for eastern scotland, and the bulk of england and wales, it stays dry all day, and generally warm, between 18—24d on sunday. as we look ahead, sunday night, this is when the rainfall gets particularly happy, especially across parts of northern ireland, and western scotland, so rainfall totals really mounting up here. we could see some localised flooding issues, as we head onto the early hours of monday. not through monday, we have got that ring sitting in the northwest, but for the rest of the uk, it is a dry sunny picture, feeling quite summary out there with temperatures on the rise. the humidity also rising with this south or south westerly breeze. so temperatures by the time we get to monday afternoon in the region about 28-29d, monday afternoon in the region about 28—29d, down towards the southeast, even further north, scotland and northern ireland, about 24—25dc. so that will be the theme as we head to the coming week, by the middle of the coming week, by the middle of the week, some very high

temperatures across parts of france, germany, and high—pressure to the east. those winds are drying up towards the uk. so we could see the all—time temperature record beaten in paris, 41 celsius by the middle of the week, all of that warmth drifting up our way as well. here is the outlook of the next five days or so. the outlook of the next five days or so. some showers in the north and northwest. dryer towards the south and southeast. temperatures reaching about 32—34d. bye—bye.

this is bbc news. the headlines at seven. dramatic footage of armed iranian troops boarding a british—flagged oil tanker in the gulf. the foreign secretary expresses "extreme disappointment" to his iranian counterpart. this is totally and utterly unacceptable. it raises very serious questions about the security of british shipping, and indeed international shipping, british shipping, and indeed internationalshipping, in british shipping, and indeed international shipping, in the straits of hormuz. british airways has suspended all flight to cairo for seven days due to security concerns. labour sets out plans to stop private companies providing council services in england. police in hong kong say they've seized a large amount of explosives ahead of a weekend of marches