| THURSDAY 2 JULY - 22.30 GMT - BBC TWO Presented by Kirsty Wark From the web team: The US army has launched a major offensive against the Taliban in south Afghanistan's Helmand province. We'll be considering if their approach is likely to be more successful than that of the British and bring you the latest on the news that a US soldier is thought to have been captured by militants in the east of the country. The Health Secretary Andy Burnham today announced that the rising number of swine flu cases in the UK mean that trying to contain the virus is no longer an option. The UK's emergency response will now move to a new "treatment" phase as there may soon be as many as 100,000 new cases a day. Mr Burnham confirmed that swine flu vaccines currently in development should be available from next month, with 60m doses available by the end of next year. Tonight we'll be investigating just how prepared we really are. It's almost 40 years since the first man walked on the moon and to mark the anniversary our Science Editor Susan Watts will be examining what the future holds for space flight and Nasa, and Kirsty Wark will be speaking to the legendary Apollo 11 moon walker, Buzz Aldrin. And our culture correspondent Stephen Smith has been sifting through a television treasure trove - hours of TV news film archive recorded by a US news agency in the 1960s and 70s that has recently been discovered in an empty London office, bringing a glimpse of how we lived 40 years ago. Do join Kirsty at 10.30pm on BBC Two. *To follow Newsnight's Twitter updates click here* | 
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