UEFA Champions League Wolfsburg v Machester United, What in the World? visits Libya and Fiorsceal has a redemptive tale of women taking the initiative to address homelessness by occupying a vacant building.
UEFA Champions League:Wolfsburg v Machester United, 7.00pm, TV3
The Wolfsburg v Machester United game starts at 7.30pm - with commentary from Kevin Kilbane and David McIntyre - but prior to that there is the half hour preview or warm-up, if you will, at 7.00pm. Tommy Martin, Neil Lennon, and Brian Kerr preview the final round of group stage matches. Then at 10.00pm, the three pundits discuss the game just done and dusted. For the Full Monty in terms of Champions League, there is of course BT Sports, while Setanta Ireland also have highlights tonight.
Tommy Martin
What in the World?, 10.50pm RTÉ One
For forty years now the Sahrawi people have lived in exile in Libya. Their home: five refugee camps in one of the hottest parts of the desert where summer temperatures reach over 50 degrees centigrade. After years of frustration, armed conflict and broken UN promises many of the young are contemplating a return to war. Gaddafi’s demise did not result in the hoped-for democratic revolution. Four years on instead of forming a democratic and functioning state, the revolutionaries are fighting each other. Libya’s recently elected House of Representatives has fled to the eastern city of Tobruk as an alternative government has established itself in Tripoli. Thousands of people detained in 2011 are still in prison and without a fully functioning justice system look likely to remain there for some time. Widespread availability of guns feeds the instability. The challenge of reconciliation remains. Meanwhile, Isis are on the rampage and scenes of destruction are far too common taken from the vantage point of a destroyed dwelling.
What in the World?
Fíorscéal: Inhabiting Utopia: Coralla Sevilla, 10.30pm, TG4
There are approximately four million empty homes in Spain yet there are many evictions, as revealed in tonight's edition of Fíorscéal. In the city of Seville, a group of women of different generations decided to exercise their right to housing and relocate to an uninhabited building that was not their property, the so-called Corrala Utopia. 36 families were in occupation for 688 days, with no electricity or water. Also in matters Hispanic, Blood and Gold: The Making of Spain with Simon Sebag Montefiore is the first in a new three-part series beginning tonight on BBC Four, beginning at 9.00pm. Montefiore embarks on a fascinating journey to unlock 2,000 years of Spain’s history. In the first episode he explores the early years of the country, when Iberia was a minor province of Carthage - then the most coveted of Rome’s colonies - through to the glories of Spain's Moslem age and the Córdoba Caliphate. Simon travels to Cadiz with Spain’s first invaders and visits a sacred island where the Carthaginian warrior Hannibal received the blessing of the Gods.
Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba - or Mezquita de Córdoba
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