:00:00. > :00:10.Putting a price on married life, today the court upheld a minimum
:00:11. > :00:15.income requirement for a foreign spouse to enter this country. I
:00:16. > :00:19.still can't believe this is happening in Britain. Tonight we
:00:20. > :00:23.meet the families torn apart by the Home Office ruling. He missed her
:00:24. > :00:30.learning to crawl, he missed her learning to walk, I couldn't believe
:00:31. > :00:35.that here in England the rights of a British child were so, not even
:00:36. > :00:38.neglected, but just ignored. This man can't remember his name and
:00:39. > :00:44.doesn't know anything about his own life. What is amnesia, and how does
:00:45. > :00:48.it work? We will meet the woman whose childhood memories were wiped
:00:49. > :00:53.away. Is football the continuation of politics by other means.
:00:54. > :01:01.Historian Dan Snow has a theory. It is not like we didn't see it coming.
:01:02. > :01:05.The Italians have been hungry for retribution since Boudica destroyed
:01:06. > :01:21.their ninth legion thousands of years ago. And this. Does it upset
:01:22. > :01:25.you to see two men dancing together. Good evening, we go first tonight to
:01:26. > :01:30.the developing situation in Gaza. The Israeli Prime Minister, Binyamin
:01:31. > :01:33.Netanyahu has said no amount of international pressure will stop
:01:34. > :01:37.Israel from acting with all its power against what he calls a terror
:01:38. > :01:41.organisation in Gaza. A grim milestone was crossed today as the
:01:42. > :01:47.Palestinian health ministry reported more than 100 dead since the bombing
:01:48. > :01:50.began four days ago. Our diplomatic editor is with us
:01:51. > :01:55.now. Given Netenyahu's response, what does that say for any US
:01:56. > :01:58.mediation now? Well what we have heard tonight is that it hasn't
:01:59. > :02:04.begun in any real sense. That means that Mr Netenyahu still has days in
:02:05. > :02:07.which to try to destroy the Hamas and other armed groups
:02:08. > :02:12.infrastructure as he would call it in Gaza. There are some issues too,
:02:13. > :02:15.even when the Americans do become more seriously engaged
:02:16. > :02:18.diplomatically. Firstly, there is the practical problem they classify
:02:19. > :02:22.Hamas as a terrorist organisation, and they generally held to the line
:02:23. > :02:26.that they don't conduct negotiations with them, some method would have to
:02:27. > :02:30.be found to do that. Then there is the bigger question of what does
:02:31. > :02:39.Hamas want in this? Earlier this evening I spoke to former US Middle
:02:40. > :02:43.East negotiator, Robert Denine. It came into this conflict very weak
:02:44. > :02:50.politically and economically, it seems to want to reassert itself
:02:51. > :02:53.within Palestinian politics, within Gaza and within Palestine at large,
:02:54. > :02:57.that is in the West Bank as well. And to a certain extent it has
:02:58. > :03:01.achieved that aim, although the question of how does it sustain it
:03:02. > :03:06.if it agrees to a ceasefire? Meanwhile, as we have said the death
:03:07. > :03:10.toll in Gaza is rising? Yes, it topped 100 this morning. Now for
:03:11. > :03:17.example people make comparisons with two previous periods of violence,
:03:18. > :03:23.2009 and 2012, it is getting closer to the 2012 total. That went on for
:03:24. > :03:26.2009 and 2012, it is getting closer Israelis have mounted their strikes
:03:27. > :03:29.the easy pickings, if you like, the guys firing rockets off the beach,
:03:30. > :03:34.the things that can be engaged without any real risk of civilian
:03:35. > :03:37.casualties have gone. They start to hit inside the town, the
:03:38. > :03:40.Palestinians of course try to protect some of their surviving
:03:41. > :03:44.weaponry by moving it close to people and we see more and more
:03:45. > :03:48.houses bombed in the last 24 hours. With all the risk of something like
:03:49. > :03:51.a school or centre full of people being hit. The Palestinians of
:03:52. > :03:56.course from their point of view, they want to be seen to be answering
:03:57. > :04:00.back forcefully, not to be cowed, they have been firing rockets back
:04:01. > :04:06.into Israel. So far the Israelis have not suffered a fatality in
:04:07. > :04:10.this. We have had casualties today, a petrol station was hit by
:04:11. > :04:16.Palestinian rockets, spectacular blaze and people wounded. They have
:04:17. > :04:19.also had people wounded in Beersheba, the southern city
:04:20. > :04:25.tonight. Another thing that may encourage the Israelis to continue,
:04:26. > :04:29.and the other thing is are they considering going in on the ground
:04:30. > :04:36.as well? Stragically or perception wise it
:04:37. > :04:41.must be a point where it becomes counter-productive for the Israelis?
:04:42. > :04:45.A ground attack as in 2009 would cause more than ten-times the
:04:46. > :04:49.Palestinian casualties, well that one z than in this episode of
:04:50. > :04:53.violence between the two sides. It ratchets things up massively.
:04:54. > :04:57.Potentially, although Israelis talk about finishing off this problem. It
:04:58. > :05:00.means reoccupying and readministering the Gaza strip, and
:05:01. > :05:04.the Israelis don't want to do that. Even if they stop short of that, and
:05:05. > :05:08.carry on with bombardment for the next few days, they run various
:05:09. > :05:13.risk, they don't want to be seen to be afraid of those, but equally
:05:14. > :05:15.there are risk, for example you get big regional players like Turkey,
:05:16. > :05:19.they have been trying to improve relations. Turkey one of the few
:05:20. > :05:26.countries that could be talking to Hamas as part of a solution, well
:05:27. > :05:33.today the Prime Minister of Turkey said reproachment with Israel, some
:05:34. > :05:42.he will Kate diplomacy going on in the last few years on hold. Here is
:05:43. > :05:46.Mr Erdinc. Recep Tayyip Erdogan. TRANSLATION: We can't have a
:05:47. > :05:50.positive attitude about the process while our brothers in Gaza are being
:05:51. > :05:58.killed and bombed. Israel must establish the ceasefire and stop
:05:59. > :06:01.shooting. So these are critical days ahead really. The next few days, I
:06:02. > :06:06.think, will show whether there will be a ground operation, or whether
:06:07. > :06:11.the US can engage diplomatically, possibly through Turkey or Qatar,
:06:12. > :06:16.one of the countries that closely speaks to Hamas and get some sort of
:06:17. > :06:19.ceasefire on the table. How much should you have to earn
:06:20. > :06:23.before you are allowed to get married? The question may sound
:06:24. > :06:29.absurd, it is absurd, but for the many Britons who marry somebody from
:06:30. > :06:32.overseas or outside the EU it is entirely relevant. Today the Court
:06:33. > :06:37.of Appeal backed up a Home Office ruling that set a minimum income
:06:38. > :06:41.threshold of ?18,a 500. The Home Office says these marriages must not
:06:42. > :06:46.be established in the UK at the tax-payers' expense. Those on the
:06:47. > :06:51.wrong side of it ask why their need to share their life with their loved
:06:52. > :07:00.ones comes at such a high price. Higher? Higher. I still can't
:07:01. > :07:04.believe this is happening in Britain. I don't feel we deserved t
:07:05. > :07:12.I don't feel that anyone deserves to have their family effectively
:07:13. > :07:20.exiled. Your life whilst this appeal is going on is on hold. We're so
:07:21. > :07:25.strong as a couple, and we will just keep fighting until the end. Two
:07:26. > :07:28.years ago ministers tightened the rules, making it harder for a
:07:29. > :07:34.British citizen to bring a husband or wife into the country from
:07:35. > :07:38.outside the EU. Since then our courts have been locked in a tussle
:07:39. > :07:46.between the right to protect our borders and the right to a family
:07:47. > :07:50.life. Olivia is half British and half Ecuadorian, her mother, Lizzie,
:07:51. > :07:54.was teaching English in South America when she met the local
:07:55. > :07:59.doctor she would go on to marry. The new family wanted to start a new
:08:00. > :08:02.life in Britain. I just felt really confident that he was going to get
:08:03. > :08:05.the visa, I couldn't see any reason why he wouldn't, because we were
:08:06. > :08:10.legally married with a British marriage certificate. This is the
:08:11. > :08:15.entry clearance officer's refusal notice. This is when we learned that
:08:16. > :08:23.we were being refused in March. How did you feel at that point?
:08:24. > :08:27.Devastated, I just completely broke down. I was trying to, I remember my
:08:28. > :08:31.husband saying and sending me the e-mail and reading it on-line while
:08:32. > :08:35.he was watching me on Skype and I just read through it and I was like
:08:36. > :08:39.that's OK look up and say it is all right, this is just a blip and will
:08:40. > :08:45.be sorted out in a couple of week, don't worry we will be fine. And I
:08:46. > :08:50.looked up and just... Tears. Just couldn't do anything. For a UK
:08:51. > :08:56.citizen like Lizzie to bring her husband into the country, she now
:08:57. > :08:59.has to earn ?18,600 a year, her husband's income isn't taken into
:09:00. > :09:03.account. The Government says the new rule will drive down net migration,
:09:04. > :09:08.cut the benefit bill and promote integration. But the level of income
:09:09. > :09:13.needed is set above the full-time minimum wage. Just under half of
:09:14. > :09:18.British people in employment would not be earning enough annually to
:09:19. > :09:23.sponsor a family migrant under this policy. Among certain groups among
:09:24. > :09:31.women it is a much higher proportion, 60 per cent plus. It is
:09:32. > :09:40.higher outside London where a lower or minimum wage goes a longer way.
:09:41. > :09:44.Arlene moved from the Philippines to Great Yarmouth to work in a care
:09:45. > :09:49.home and study. She met Stephen and two years later they married, just
:09:50. > :09:56.after the new law came in. When we take the vow as a married couple, it
:09:57. > :10:03.says for richer for poorer, in sick he is, until death do us part. He
:10:04. > :10:08.can't live without me as well. And it is killing us both. Stephen
:10:09. > :10:12.hasn't been earning enough to keep Arlene in the country. She's now
:10:13. > :10:16.fighting a deportation order. The Government set this target of
:10:17. > :10:21.reducing overall net migration in this country, and it would argue
:10:22. > :10:25.that this is one way of doing it? Surely if that is the case then we
:10:26. > :10:30.would close our border to EU countries coming in. Around 30,000
:10:31. > :10:34.couples applied for a partner visa every year. Half from Asia, with the
:10:35. > :10:39.largest numbers from Pakistan and India. One in three is now rejected,
:10:40. > :10:44.a number that has doubled as the new rules have come into force. It is
:10:45. > :10:48.perfectly legitimate for a Government to try to pursue a very
:10:49. > :10:53.popular policy of returning immigration to more moderate levels
:10:54. > :10:59.and family reunion is the third largest in-flow into Britain. I
:11:00. > :11:02.think the path the Government has thought -- in the past the
:11:03. > :11:06.Government has thought there is abuse in the channel and the system
:11:07. > :11:10.hasn't encouraged integration, particularly in the case of spouses
:11:11. > :11:13.coming in from the Indian sub-continent, and has led to some
:11:14. > :11:20.cases of welfare dependency. This is a letter I wrote to the Prime
:11:21. > :11:25.Minister, from the perspective of Olivia, "please help, I can't have
:11:26. > :11:29.computer Pahad, this makes us very sad. These are my shoes now, I'm
:11:30. > :11:37.eight months older, our court date is one year and one month after we
:11:38. > :11:41.applied for a visa". In South America Lizzie had been working in
:11:42. > :11:44.bank earning a good local wage, but converted into pounds that wasn't
:11:45. > :11:50.enough to meet the earnings target and bring her husband back to
:11:51. > :11:55.Britain. He missed her learning to crawl. He missed her learning to
:11:56. > :12:00.walk. I couldn't believe that here in England the rights of a British
:12:01. > :12:04.child were so, not even neglected but just ignored. Completely. I was
:12:05. > :12:12.child were so, not even neglected furious. I felt like I didn't even
:12:13. > :12:14.child were so, not even neglected recognise this country any more. For
:12:15. > :12:17.Stephen it is all about proving he has hit the income threshold. He
:12:18. > :12:21.needs to show six months of earnings above that for an appeal to be
:12:22. > :12:25.successful. You have to earn the money, just to keep going at the
:12:26. > :12:29.moment, and with the cost of barristers and solicitors, you know,
:12:30. > :12:34.earning I'm earning is going towards them. But she's worth it at the end
:12:35. > :12:39.of the day. Last year the Home Office lost part of a test case, the
:12:40. > :12:44.High Court ruled it set the income target at a level that was
:12:45. > :12:49.disproportionate and unjustified. Today in the Court of Appeal that
:12:50. > :12:53.ruling was reversed. Three judges said immigration policy should be
:12:54. > :12:57.left up to the Home Secretary, not the courts. The Home Office decided
:12:58. > :13:00.to put all applications on hold, spending the Court of Appeal's
:13:01. > :13:04.judgment, obviously today the Government has won, so that's a blow
:13:05. > :13:06.to those who are hoping that the High Court's judgment would be
:13:07. > :13:11.upheld. But it is only a battle that the Government has won, there is a
:13:12. > :13:13.wider war still going on and the individuals may take their case to
:13:14. > :13:18.the Supreme Court if they get permission to do so. The Government
:13:19. > :13:23.welcomed the ruling, saying migrants must be able to integrate and family
:13:24. > :13:27.life should not be established here at the tax-payers' expense. We're
:13:28. > :13:31.talking here about the right of an individual to marry who they choose,
:13:32. > :13:36.which seems a pretty basic right, but it is also a pretty basic right
:13:37. > :13:39.to live in a relatively stable country without very large levels of
:13:40. > :13:42.immigration, you might say, and clearly a lot of voters do think
:13:43. > :13:48.that. And simply the right to live in a relatively integrated society.
:13:49. > :13:54.Earlier this year, a breakthrough for Lizzie and her family. After
:13:55. > :14:01.working in a new job for six months the Home Office approved her
:14:02. > :14:07.husband's visa. It is like a huge weight has been lifted off my
:14:08. > :14:13.shoulders. I can sleep again, I can eat again. It is amazing, it is like
:14:14. > :14:19.life should have been a year ago. Lizzie's husband, Alexander is
:14:20. > :14:24.living in Devon and retraining as a British doctor. I can't recover the
:14:25. > :14:33.year that I lost with my daughter and my wife, my family. There is no
:14:34. > :14:43.money enough to pay me or my family because of this year. We lost a lot.
:14:44. > :14:48.I didn't marry her just to let the UK take her away from me, no, I
:14:49. > :14:52.married her for a reason, and she will be with me until the day I die.
:14:53. > :14:57.For others there is still uncertainty. Today's ruling is
:14:58. > :15:00.likely to be challenged in the Supreme Court. Until then thousands
:15:01. > :15:08.of couples will be told to earn more to pay their way, or to make a life
:15:09. > :15:11.outside this country. We asked the Home Secretary and the
:15:12. > :15:15.Immigration Minister if they would come on the programme to talk about
:15:16. > :15:19.today's ruling but they declined. His name is Robert, at least that's
:15:20. > :15:23.what the doctors have called him. He was found in a park, he speaks with
:15:24. > :15:27.a slight eastern European accent and seems good at sport. This much we
:15:28. > :15:32.know, all the rest is a mystery, even to him. The man is a victim of
:15:33. > :15:35.amnesia and can recall nothing about his own life. Doctors have warned
:15:36. > :15:40.that he faces a long road to recovery and that the symptoms he
:15:41. > :15:43.displays fit no conventional explanation. We will meet a woman
:15:44. > :15:48.who lost the first 20 years of her life to amnesia in a moment. First
:15:49. > :15:54.Robert's story. On the 18th of May the man in red
:15:55. > :15:59.here was found in a mark in Pete borrowing, dazed -- Peterborough,
:16:00. > :16:02.dazed and frustrated without identification to identify him. The
:16:03. > :16:06.police concerned about his state of mind took him to hospital, where he
:16:07. > :16:17.has been ever since. We know people who get amnesia of this kind, a
:16:18. > :16:21.psychogenic F uge. It is associated with depression, and people get them
:16:22. > :16:27.after major trauma. In Robert's case we don't know anything. Most amnesia
:16:28. > :16:31.is transient, in this case it is transient, that is what makes the
:16:32. > :16:35.case unusual. Robert can speak English, but with an accent,
:16:36. > :16:38.although he can read Russian and Lithuanian, he can't speak either
:16:39. > :16:42.language. He's hoping someone will see his picture and come forward to
:16:43. > :16:46.identify him. The hospital set up a helpline for people, and say they
:16:47. > :16:59.will carefully screen any call that comes in. Provan Susan Blackmore has
:17:00. > :17:05.worked in studies on identity and other issues. Our other guest lost
:17:06. > :17:12.20 years of memory and never regained them. It clearly wasn't
:17:13. > :17:17.transient for you, you describe it as having lost your history, what
:17:18. > :17:23.was that like? It was like having two parts of my life. It was in my
:17:24. > :17:28.early 20s this happened. Due to a seizure under medication I was on.
:17:29. > :17:32.So the whole 20 something years of my life just disappeared and didn't
:17:33. > :17:36.come back. I have had to rebuild it. When you look at pictures of
:17:37. > :17:44.yourself, or when you hear stories about yourself, does that trigger
:17:45. > :17:49.anything for you? Occasionally, it is like having photographic
:17:50. > :17:53.memories, the photographs don't bring back any emotions. Music can
:17:54. > :17:56.do that. I can hear something on the radio and that can bring back
:17:57. > :18:01.memories and emotions more than a photograph. What did you do then?
:18:02. > :18:06.You had to ask your mother about yourself or what you liked or what
:18:07. > :18:12.you, who your friends were, what happened? Well it was due to a
:18:13. > :18:20.seizure, and a few seizures on the medication I was on. It was my
:18:21. > :18:25.mother that brought me round a few times. And she had to tell me who
:18:26. > :18:30.she was and who I was and what I was doing, quite calmly and slowly.
:18:31. > :18:36.Extraordinary. When you hear Jo's story, can you be yourself without
:18:37. > :18:40.memory? That very evocative idea of having two separate lives there?
:18:41. > :18:46.Yeah. It is strange, isn't it? But as soon as we start to think about
:18:47. > :18:51.who am I, what is the self any way, things are very strange. I would
:18:52. > :18:56.think most people feel as though this is my body this is my arms and
:18:57. > :19:00.leg, I'm somewhere in here controlling this, I'm the conscious
:19:01. > :19:06.things who has free will and is aware. But if you actually look
:19:07. > :19:09.inside a brain you just find loads of neurons, there is no middle in
:19:10. > :19:16.the brain where I could be controlling things. Some how these
:19:17. > :19:20.billions of neurons and trillions of connections make this thing here
:19:21. > :19:23.feel like there is a self inside there is conscious. How does it do
:19:24. > :19:27.that? Memory is very important to that, it is not everything. One of
:19:28. > :19:33.the interesting things that we're hearing here is how, I believe her
:19:34. > :19:38.mother told her that her personality was similar in her earlier life, is
:19:39. > :19:42.that right? Jo, just explain that, did your mother say that you shared
:19:43. > :19:47.the same sort of innate characteristics during the next 20
:19:48. > :19:54.years as during the first 20? That's what she has told me, yes. I have to
:19:55. > :19:58.believe her! What does that mean, is it your sense of humour or the way
:19:59. > :20:01.you talk or is it the things that you like, what was the connection
:20:02. > :20:07.between the old self and the new self? I think probably the way I
:20:08. > :20:11.spoke didn't change. I didn't have to learn how to speak or write
:20:12. > :20:16.again, the brain decides what you can remember and what you can't
:20:17. > :20:20.remember in something like this. She has given two very good examples of
:20:21. > :20:25.things that would survive the loss of, what we are really talking about
:20:26. > :20:29.episodic memory, things that have happened to you. She can clearly
:20:30. > :20:33.remember skills and writing and speaking, those skills are stored in
:20:34. > :20:37.different parts of the brain from the episodic memory, the stories of
:20:38. > :20:41.your life. Those things can stay the same. You would be recoginsable to
:20:42. > :20:45.somebody else as being the same person, the same sense of humour and
:20:46. > :20:49.the same way you wave your arms and lots of things about your habits
:20:50. > :20:53.will be the same, even if you can't remember what happened yesterday.
:20:54. > :20:59.Does it make you vulnerable? Yes, I think it probably does. In certain
:21:00. > :21:02.circumstances if it is required of you to have some background and to
:21:03. > :21:06.be able to say things about who you were in the past, you will feel
:21:07. > :21:11.pretty, not like other people who can think they can remember a whole
:21:12. > :21:16.lot of their past. But in other situations it won't at all, because
:21:17. > :21:19.most of our life we don't have to think about our childhood F I
:21:20. > :21:24.couldn't remember the first 20 years of my life, in most circumstances
:21:25. > :21:28.that wouldn't matter. And Jo, let me ask you that question, do you feel
:21:29. > :21:32.vulnerable without those first 20 years, do you explain that to a lot
:21:33. > :21:38.of people or does it not actually impede what you do on daily basis? I
:21:39. > :21:44.think there is two answers to this, the first is I think many people,
:21:45. > :21:47.I'm in my early 40s now, many people have problems rembering their
:21:48. > :21:51.childhood any way. But the two people in my life that have really
:21:52. > :21:56.helped have been my best friend Nicky and my mother. I think my
:21:57. > :22:00.mother's helped me more with the childhood memories, and my best
:22:01. > :22:05.friend, with some of the teenage memories, which sometimes I don't
:22:06. > :22:09.want to remember! Have doctors told you there is any chance of that
:22:10. > :22:14.coming back now, or do they presume that after 20 years that is just
:22:15. > :22:21.gone? It is in there somewhere, I think the brain has it in there
:22:22. > :22:27.somewhere, it is just I can't recall it. Are there triggers or is music a
:22:28. > :22:34.trigger occasionally? Yes it can be, that can be a trigger for an
:22:35. > :22:39.emotional memory, rather than just a photoic MEP -- photographic memory.
:22:40. > :22:43.Music is very important to me. This started with us talking about
:22:44. > :22:47.Robert, a very young man, who knows nothing about himself now, there is
:22:48. > :22:52.a vulnerability to what people tell you about yourself or project on to
:22:53. > :22:56.you at this point, even calling him Robert? One of the things that
:22:57. > :23:01.memory can help you with is to disagree, no that is not right, that
:23:02. > :23:08.is not me. It can take away a lot of confidence if you don't have that
:23:09. > :23:17.background, so he must be feeling quite scared, I imagine.
:23:18. > :23:21.When you talk about Luis Suarez's reputation it can be taken either
:23:22. > :23:24.way. A brilliant striker and bizarre appetite for other players. It
:23:25. > :23:29.hasn't stopped his rise, his move to Barcelona was confirmed today with a
:23:30. > :23:32.price tag of ?75 million. The football world, it seems, is already
:23:33. > :23:38.moving on, even before the Cup Final. Sunday will bring together
:23:39. > :23:42.Brazil-killers Germany, and Brazil's great couldn't NENLT them rival,
:23:43. > :23:49.Argentina. It also marks some of the most incredible football a
:23:50. > :23:54.tournament has ever seen. Upset and destruction and uncomfortable truths
:23:55. > :23:58.about England. To some it is enough it is about football, to another
:23:59. > :24:03.like Dan Snow it is about power and politics and the settling of great
:24:04. > :24:08.nationaic scores. When it came to history this World
:24:09. > :24:16.Cup had it all, mighty Brazil knocked out with the greatest margin
:24:17. > :24:26.ever. Costa Rico defying the odds and qualifying. Spain crushed at the
:24:27. > :24:52.first hurdle. InDom mitable Germany. World class football. But for poor
:24:53. > :24:55.old England, history wasn't on their sidede.
:24:56. > :25:01.England's World Cup campaign has been a failure of historic
:25:02. > :25:06.proportions. I can't think of a worse performance since the Dutch
:25:07. > :25:10.Navy sailed into the river Medway in June 1667 and burned the entire
:25:11. > :25:14.English Royal Navy at anchor. It is worse than that, it is the most
:25:15. > :25:22.disastrous English foreign exhibition since that fool he ward
:25:23. > :25:28.II marched his army north and lost the Battle of Bannockburn, idiot! It
:25:29. > :25:33.is not like we didn't see it coming, Italians have been hungry for
:25:34. > :25:40.retribution since Boudica destroyed their 9th legion. As for Uraguy,
:25:41. > :25:43.more caution, haven't we forgotten the ship hitting the unchartered
:25:44. > :26:06.reef in 1809. I'm available for selection. Bill
:26:07. > :26:09.shankly, the great player and manager had it right, football isn't
:26:10. > :26:12.about life or death, it is far more important than that. The games we
:26:13. > :26:17.have seen being played in the World Cup are not just about which team
:26:18. > :26:23.lives or dies, they are about how they impact that greatest game of
:26:24. > :26:31.all, power politics. The World Cup is the perfect environment to
:26:32. > :26:34.revisit rivalries and settle old scores. That is not to say the
:26:35. > :26:40.violence doesn't sometimes bubble over, in 1969 a game between Honture
:26:41. > :26:43.are yous and El Salvador, rather than relieving the tension between
:26:44. > :26:49.the two countries, it ignited a full scale war. It was called the Soccer
:26:50. > :26:53.War, luckily it didn't last long. Speaking of rivalries, who can
:26:54. > :26:57.forget the dramatic day when the Dutch brought Spain's period of
:26:58. > :27:02.global domination to a close. I'm talking about the battle of the
:27:03. > :27:12.downs fought in 1569 off the coast of Kent. . They managed to repeat it
:27:13. > :27:15.last Friday 13th. What about Brazil, also highly fancied before the
:27:16. > :27:20.tournament yet collapsed under pressure. Will their much-touted
:27:21. > :27:26.economy, an engine room of the developing world prove just as
:27:27. > :27:30.fragile? One down, half time, you missed a couple of easy analogies
:27:31. > :27:40.out there, but you can pull it back in the second half. We probably
:27:41. > :27:45.should talk about Germany, in 1954 the west Germans managed to reach
:27:46. > :27:48.the World Cup final. They met their ancestoral enemy, the Hungarians. It
:27:49. > :27:51.was the first time the German National Anthem had been played
:27:52. > :27:56.since the Second World War, they managed to win the match, and amid
:27:57. > :28:02.national celebration the German post-war economic miracle was born,
:28:03. > :28:05.an episode that happened on the football pitch that has broken
:28:06. > :28:12.English hearts since then. Except for that glorious summer's day in
:28:13. > :28:20.1966. An opening in the defence and the hat trick! History fizzes
:28:21. > :28:25.through the Argentina-England rivalry, how do Co It not after --
:28:26. > :28:30.how could it not after the receipt coats invaded in the 1880s, more
:28:31. > :28:36.recently with the Falklands War. And Maradona's hand of God goal, who
:28:37. > :28:42.says it is his favourite goal, like stealing the England team's wallet.
:28:43. > :28:45.David Beckham saw red during a game between Argentina, briefly becoming
:28:46. > :28:50.a national pariah, times change. In fact, it looks like our two greatest
:28:51. > :28:55.adversaries have worked out they might as well cut out the middle man
:28:56. > :29:00.and play each other, take heart England fans, if a nation can be
:29:01. > :29:04.judged by its enemies, these two finalists suggest England must be
:29:05. > :29:11.great afterall. I'm really clutching at straws now. So as the world
:29:12. > :29:16.powers rise and fall what will the great future rivalries be, Iran
:29:17. > :29:21.versus USA, or Russia seems to be back as everyone's favourite
:29:22. > :29:27.adversary. But one day China might match its economic power with
:29:28. > :29:37.prowess on the football pitch. Now China v Japan, that would be a match
:29:38. > :29:41.with history. There is one lesson from history is that the English
:29:42. > :29:49.need a little help. Where was the best player in Britain? Welshman
:29:50. > :29:53.Gareth Bale during the World Cup, on the Penarth pier that's where. And
:29:54. > :29:58.Sir Alex Fergsuon could have been involved. If we want to make World
:29:59. > :30:02.Cup history for the right reasons in future, it will have to be Team GB
:30:03. > :30:06.that does it. That is all for this week, but on
:30:07. > :30:12.the day the British dance council stands accused of trying to ban
:30:13. > :30:21.same-sex pairs from competitive ballroom dancing, we leave you with
:30:22. > :30:29.the award winners dancing the Speak Up Mambo.