:00:00. > :00:07.Hi, I'm Ricky, it's Tuesday and this is Newsround.
:00:08. > :00:23.We find out about the battle that was supposed to end World War One.
:00:24. > :00:26.But first - massive news in the world of football.
:00:27. > :00:29.Roy Hodgson has resigned as England manager after his side were beaten
:00:30. > :00:34.2-1 by Iceland in the European Championships last night.
:00:35. > :00:38.The loss means England are now out of the European Championships.
:00:39. > :00:41.Their loss to iceland, the lowest ranked team in the Euros
:00:42. > :00:44.- will go down as one of the biggest shocks in international football
:00:45. > :00:54.Jenny was watching in france and sent us this report
:00:55. > :00:57.on what happened on a dramatic night in Nice.
:00:58. > :00:59.Roy Hodgson's said where expected to win against a nation
:01:00. > :01:05.who have a population just 330,000, roughly the same size as Leicester.
:01:06. > :01:07.England started well and took the lead within five minutes.
:01:08. > :01:09.Wayne Rooney scoring from the penalty spot.
:01:10. > :01:15.And Rooney scores! CHEERING
:01:16. > :01:19.But just 34 seconds later, Iceland stunned England
:01:20. > :01:25.Sigurdsson scoring with this effort, following poor defending.
:01:26. > :01:33.In the 19th minute, Sigthorsson shot from just inside the box and scored.
:01:34. > :01:40.Joe Hart perhaps should have done better.
:01:41. > :01:42.In the second half, England dominated the game but just couldn't
:01:43. > :01:46.In the end, they were outfought, out-thought and outdone
:01:47. > :01:54.Iceland held on the famous victory, the first time they have ever beaten
:01:55. > :02:01.Then, straight after the final whistle, this happened.
:02:02. > :02:07.My contract was always up after the Euros.
:02:08. > :02:09.So, now is the time for someone else to oversee the progress
:02:10. > :02:22.of this young, hungry and extremely talented group.
:02:23. > :02:32.Well done, Iceland. They go on to Paris.
:02:33. > :02:37.On the July first, 1916, British soldiers were sent to fight
:02:38. > :02:39.a battle that was supposed to finish World War One.
:02:40. > :02:42.But, by the end of the Battle of the Somme, more than a million
:02:43. > :02:47.Even now people can't agree on whether it was the right decision
:02:48. > :02:52.100 years ago, Britain and its allies were
:02:53. > :02:54.For two long years, both sides slogged it out,
:02:55. > :03:02.firing at each other from trenches like this one.
:03:03. > :03:04.The British were fighting here and the Germans were over there.
:03:05. > :03:09.After all that time, no one was making any progress.
:03:10. > :03:14.So, the people in charge of the British Army came up
:03:15. > :03:19.They hit the Germans as hard as they could with artillery
:03:20. > :03:32.The plant was from there... They were wrong and the Germans were
:03:33. > :03:39.waiting. They weren't able to take them as planned. The soldiers were
:03:40. > :03:43.met with a wall of bombs and bullets. 20,000 were killed and
:03:44. > :03:49.40,000 were wounded. In just the first day. Many were just teenagers.
:03:50. > :03:53.They saw it as a big adventure but the reality was very different. Lots
:03:54. > :03:57.of death and things young people should never experience. Even though
:03:58. > :04:00.tens of thousands of soldiers were being killed in these fields, the
:04:01. > :04:08.Army commanders decided the soldiers must fight on. The result? Even more
:04:09. > :04:13.lives lost. It had a huge effect back home. Groups of men from the
:04:14. > :04:17.same towns and cities volunteered in huge amounts of people were lost.
:04:18. > :04:21.With the news coming through that thousands were not coming back home,
:04:22. > :04:25.it was only a matter of time before families were expecting a knock on
:04:26. > :04:29.her door to inform them they had lost somebody. In the four months
:04:30. > :04:33.that it lasted, more than 1 million soldiers died on both sides. People
:04:34. > :04:37.in charge said it had to be done to win the war. But others argue that
:04:38. > :04:41.so many young men should never have died. Even today, you can see the
:04:42. > :04:48.results of the Battle all around us in the UK. In your hometown, there
:04:49. > :04:51.is properly a memorial to the soldiers who fought and died on the
:04:52. > :04:55.Somme. It was a battle of it changed Britain. They will be hearing more
:04:56. > :04:59.from Martin and France throughout this week. I'm back right here in
:05:00. > :05:03.half an hour. I buy.