2h. Champions League. FC Porto plays this Tuesday

This transcription was generated automatically by Artificial Intelligence and may contain errors or inaccuracies. Two hours. The news with Teresa Freire. Good evening. The housing protesters are still camping in Lisbon and Porto tonight. Remember that at this time, the protests are already considered illegal for passing midnight and half past. In Praça do Rossio, in Lisbon, the Observer reporter, Rita Lourenço, has been there. Rita, the atmosphere remains calm and without police in sight. That's right, Teresa, the atmosphere remains calm. The police that were present at the scene, about two police cars and three motorcycles, have already left the place. The last car left about 10, 15 minutes ago. Therefore, at this moment, at least visibly, there is no police here in Praça do Rossio. We are with one of the spokespersons of the movement and from the camp, Feijó. What is expected for tonight? The atmosphere at this moment is calm, I know they are prepared for what may happen. Hello, good evening. I am not a spokesperson for the assembly or the camp, I just want to clarify that, in the sense that I am speaking here as a person who is camping, a person who has participated in the assemblies, a person who helps with the structure of the assembly, but I am not speaking on behalf of anyone. I just wanted to say that first. Secondly, yes, the atmosphere is great. It has been a festive atmosphere. We had a very good concert after the popular assembly. Since then, people have been celebrating, talking, dancing. Many people have also gone to sleep. There is no sign of the police so far, despite the constant threats they have made to us, but people, in any case, are prepared for whatever comes. One of the spokespersons said a little while ago, around midnight and a half, that the police had actually asked you to remove the tents, but your response is to stay and to be here. The police claim that staying after midnight and a half is illegal. How do you respond to these allegations? I don't know exactly about the legality of the matter. I know that it is important for people to continue to protest by the means they deem necessary in Portugal, especially when the situation is so critical. And often, and we know this from the history of civil disobedience, it is not the law that dictates what should be done, actually. In this case, to us it seems that a camp is, if disproportionate, then disproportionate to the contrary, regarding the housing conditions we have to deal with today. And therefore, it is a perfectly proportional action regarding the crisis we are facing. And we have the whole intention of staying as long as it is possible. We have just heard Feijó with the statements that they are prepared to stay here as long as it is possible. And this is the atmosphere here in Praça do Rossio. Many tents are already closed, most of the people who were outside the tents have already left the place. There are hundreds of tents present and here we have a calm atmosphere which is expected to continue. The Observer reporter, Rita Lourenço, live from Praça do Rossio, in Lisbon, where the protesters are staying for the third consecutive night. At the Porto camp, the reporter Laura Figueiredo is there. Laura, in Praça Dom João I, the atmosphere has also been calm and without security forces nearby. Precisely, Teresa, in the previous nights, in fact, it is around this time that the police have abandoned the square here, but today, as you said, they haven't even come here. Just to report that in the last half hour, four motorcycles from the Immediate Prevention and Reaction Unit passed by, they simply passed by, and then also a civil protection cart a little later, but it also didn't stay. However, none of this caused any reaction from the protesters, who are still here, as you said, calmly living together, some playing cards, making drawings. There is even one of the protesters watching a baseball game on the computer. And as in the last nights, everyone is also waiting for what will happen in the next few hours. The police procedure in the last nights has been to wait until midnight and a half and then try to talk with the representatives of the movement, but it seems that today the authorities have changed their strategy, after the last few days the attempts to talk with the protesters have not had any effect. Already this Monday, the PSP also made it clear that the tents will have to be removed from the square sooner or later, both in Lisbon and here in Porto. Before that, the authorities guarantee that they intend to exhaust the means of dialogue with the protest organizers to the fullest. They warn that there will be a police intervention if the tents are not dismantled. However, Sérgio Soares, spokesperson for the PSP, says he does not know when this intervention will take place, but he also assures that, if it happens, it will be proportional and adequate. For now, everything suggests that it will not be today that the PSP will act, but there is no certainty about this and therefore the atmosphere here among the protesters remains with some expectation. The Observer reporter, Laura Figueiredo, live from Praça Dom João I, in Porto, reporting a calm atmosphere, at least for now. The Minister of Internal Administration guarantees that the PSP will not yield to the protesters. Luís Neves says that these are the instructions of the law itself and regrets that there have been injuries during the protests. The minister says that the right to protest is respected by everyone, but warns that the forms of protest cannot violate the law. We all have to be sure that the law must be fulfilled. The firmness of the action must be taken, and therefore, it is evident that no one is satisfied, neither the security forces, nor the fact that people have been injured, which is what happened. But for this reason, this work is being done. The security forces, as we saw yesterday, both in Porto and in Lisbon, spoke with the representatives of the protesters, communicating what is necessary to be enforced by law. In the late afternoon, the minister guaranteed that the organization of both protests has been informed that the police may act to end the occupation of the public space, definitively. There has been coordination regarding this type of protest, but there will come a time when the space will have to be returned to everyone's freedom. This is what is absolutely at stake and, therefore, the Public Security Police has done, and well, and the media organs have followed, that they have dialogued with the protesters, giving them an understanding and knowledge of what the next steps will be. The words of Luís Neves, at a time when the PSP reinforced the warning that it can intervene during protests, the minister was speaking on the sidelines of the launch of the Civil Protection Operational Center in Penafiel, in the Porto district. We change the subject. The Secretary-General of the PS admits that the state budget for 2027 deserved a negative vote from the party, but he reserves that the duty of the socialists is to serve the country. With the PS abstention, the document will be approved. José Luís Carneiro insists that they preferred to vote against, but that abstention is preferable in the face of a political crisis. This budget deserved a vote against, but our first duty is to serve the country. We are in opposition to the government, but we are not in opposition to our country. We have the duty to defend our country against a very difficult external situation that is having brutal impacts on Portuguese families, companies, institutions, and with an insensitive and incompetent government to respond to the needs. José Luís Carneiro, in statements to journalists in Faro. The leader of the PS admits that he does not trust what the government will present, but considers that a crippled budget would be synonymous with chaos in Portugal. In sports, this Tuesday, Futebol Clube do Porto is playing for the Champions League again, at a time when the team has not yet won a single game in the competition. The Dragons lost the first two stages of the league against Manchester City and Betis. This Tuesday they are receiving PSV Eindhoven at home. In the preview of the match, the coach of the white and blue team, Francisco Farioli, admits that the team has a mountain to climb against the three-time Dutch champions. The fact that we are playing at home again is, without a doubt, very important. Regarding the two previous games, I believe we deserved more. We played very well, but we did not achieve the results we wanted and that, in my opinion, we also deserved. Therefore, now we have the opportunity to play at home again. We know that we have a mountain to climb and tomorrow we will face a team that is three-time Dutch champion. We have a lot of respect for them, but we will also have the necessary confidence to play this game as the Dragon. Francisco Farioli, in the preview of the game against PSV Eindhoven. The coach of the Dutch team, Peter Bosz, also anticipates an offensive Porto, but he is confident in the PSV's ability to apply their own style at the Dragão Stadium. The ball starts rolling at 8 pm sharp. 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