06/07/2016 Newsround

26 days ago, Wales played their first ever game at the Euros

in Bordeaux where they beat Slovakia 2-1 to kick start their European

Tonight they take on Portugal, in this very stadium,

So far, they've played 450 minutes of football, won 4 out of 5 matches

and scored 10 goals to reach this historic moment.

It's a truly incredible story of a team with unbreakable spirit

A small country, who have taken one of the world's biggest football

Just a sheet years ago, they were placed 114th in the world, now they

are taking one of the world's biggest bubble tournaments by storm.

Whatever happens here tonight, one thing's for sure -

this Wales team will be national heroes in their fans' eyes.

Thousands of them have been arriving in Lyon today,

to cheer on their team, and I caught up with some of them.

I ask them for one word that describes their team.

I think Wales are awesome, because they have got Gareth Bale.

We are dreamers. We believe we can achieve.

I think Wales are epic, because they have really good players.

Now, as you can see, a lot of the talk in the build up

to this game has been about the head-to-head clash

between Real Madrid team mates Gareth Bale and Cristiano Ronaldo.

If you want to know more about how they stack up,

That's also where you can tell us your views about the result tonight.

So that's it, Wales are one win away from making the final of Euro 2016.

The other big news today is about a war involving British

It caused huge arguments across the world and now a report

has been looking into what went wrong.

In a moment, a BBC political expert will explain what this all means,

In 2003, the US led an invasion of Iraq in the Middle East,

They targeted the Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.

The American and British leaders at the time said he was dangerous

They also said that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction that

Saddam Hussein said he didn't have any such weapons.

But the American and UK leaders didn't believe him.

The decision to go to war was extremely controversial, not

everybody agreed. Millions of people

protested all over the UK. But the British prime minister

at the time, Tony Blair, Iraq's army was defeated

and Saddam Hussein was But no weapons of mass

destruction were found in Iraq. The mission turned into a long war

lasting eight years. 4,500 American troops

died and the UK lost No-one knows for sure

how many Iraqis died, It also left different

groups in Iraq fighting Many people questioned

why the UK and US got In 2009, the then British Prime

Minister, Gordon Brown, set up a special investigation

to find out what happened in the run-up to the invasion

and whether the right It was called the Chilcot Inquiry

named after the man in charge of it. Sir John Chilcot was asked to find

out what happened in the run-up to the invasion, and whether the right

decisions were made. And today, seven years on, the enquiry reported

that the UK went to war when it wasn't necessary, and that the

problems that caused the war could have been solved peacefully.

It also said that in future politicians should think more

Now over to BBC Political reporter Chris Mason,

who has been looking at why this report is so important.

The biggest job of our government is to try and keep us safe, and the

biggest decision that the leader of our government, the Prime Minister,

ever has to take is whether or not we go to war, and that is because

wars are horrible. Our soldiers get killed, and other people get killed

as well. That means some people think all wars are a bad idea, but

some say they have to happen sometimes to protect our country and

what is important to us. This report into the Iraq war says not enough

preparation was done beforehand, Iraq wasn't really a threat to us,

and not many people had given much thought to whether Iraq could be put

together afterwards. Tony Blair, who was our leader, our Prime Minister

at the time, said it was a very, very difficult decision, but he did

think he was doing the right thing and he hadn't lied. But some of the

families of the soldiers who were killed are still very, very angry

about this, and some of them would even like Tony Blair to go to prison

for what he did. That is probably not going to happen, but what is

definitely going to change, I think, because of this report, is that it

will be much harder for the leaders in the future to persuade is that

war is a good idea. Well, that's all

from Newsround today. We'll be back tomorrow

with that all-important result from Euro 2016 -

good luck, Wales!