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I'm Hayley and here's what's going on in the world today. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
It's 100 years since a team of football players went to fight | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
And the coolest things you footy fans should know about Iceland. | :00:09. | :00:25. | |
Marcus Willis, who is ranked 772 in the world, will face world number | :00:26. | :00:32. | |
Johanna Konta will also be hoping to finish her match which started | :00:33. | :00:38. | |
Next, this Friday marks 100 years since the battle of the Somme, | :00:39. | :00:46. | |
one of the biggest battles of the First World War. | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
Martin is in France where it all happened. | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
Understood at a memorial which commemorates dead British soldiers. | :00:55. | :01:11. | |
It's quiet right now but in World War I some of the fiercest battles | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
took place right here. With a war of this side everyone was expected to | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
their bit. Imagine your favourite footy players and football teams | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
like Celtic or Leicester leaving the football pitch and going to fight | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
for Britain. That's what happened 100 years ago. Check it out. | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
Hearts of Midlothian, or Hearts, were at the top | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
of the Scottish league having started the season with eight | :01:35. | :01:36. | |
But across Europe the war is breaking out. | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
Britain desperately needed volunteers to fight. | :01:41. | :01:46. | |
Everyone was called upon to do their bit, even | :01:47. | :01:53. | |
In November 1914, just months after the war had started, 16 | :01:54. | :01:59. | |
of the first-team squad signed up to go and fight. | :02:00. | :02:01. | |
They became known as | :02:02. | :02:02. | |
Having such sporting celebs sign up was a | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
clever tactic by the army, a great advert for becoming a soldier. | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
Within days, hundreds of men who were inspired by the heroes | :02:13. | :02:19. | |
I think the players back then were braver than | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
I don't think you'd see Ronaldo or Messi or anyone like that | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
Men didn't come back and they left to fight for us. | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
The battalion inspired my grandfather to | :02:31. | :02:32. | |
He went every Saturday and watched the football | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
and for them to throw away | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
the title for a war, for the country, | :02:40. | :02:41. | |
The team came here to fight the Germans | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
in one of the bloodiest and biggest battles of the war | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
Though they managed to free this village | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
from German control, the victory came at a cost. | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
Seven of the team died in battle and another three | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
suffered such injuries that their lives would never be the same. | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
Being a Hearts fan, nobody will forget what | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
they did for the club and for the country. | :03:13. | :03:15. | |
Giving away the title, which is unbelievable, to go and | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
defend your country is just phenomenal. | :03:20. | :03:21. | |
If I was asked to describe the | :03:22. | :03:23. | |
The sacrifice they made was unbelievable | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
and it's more than what anyone could have asked of them. | :03:28. | :03:40. | |
On Friday despite be busy because there is an anniversary to mark 100 | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
years since this massive battle took place but I will speak giving you | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
special reports before that. In the meantime, head to the website | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
because we have everything you need to know about World War I and the | :03:55. | :03:56. | |
Battle of this song. Finally, how much do | :03:57. | :03:57. | |
you know about Iceland? Yep, we know they knocked England | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
out of the Euros but there's a lot more to the country | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
than you might think. Home to some of the largest glaziers | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
in Europe and some of the world's Just 320,000 people | :04:07. | :04:15. | |
live on the island. More people live in Leicester | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
here in England. This is Bjork, one of the most | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
famous singers from Iceland. She had a couple of hits | :04:24. | :04:30. | |
the way back in the '90s. These days, the kids are talking | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
about Fridrik Dor and Retro Stefson. The country has only a handful | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
of TV channels. In fact, 99.8% of the viewing | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
population watched Iceland beat Newsround's back tomorrow | :04:43. | :04:51. | |
morning with Ayshah. | :04:52. | :04:55. |