and coming up in the sport on bbc news. the history chasers can they become the first scotland side to make it out of the group stage of a major tournament? hello and welcome to the bbc news at 0ne. well, in just a few hours, scotland s footballers kick off the euros, taking on germany in the opening game of the four week tournament. tens of thousands of scotland fans have descended on munich. england play their first match on sunday, against serbia. john watson s in munich for us and john, a big task for scotland tonight playing germany in germany? it is. they are calling this the biggest party in scottish football in 26 years. not since the world cup which was staged in france back in 1998 have scotland qualified for a major tournament overseas. as you can probably see behind me most of the scotland fans have now arrived here in munich. they have been mingling alongside their german counterparts here in one of the main squares in the city. it has been good natured, good