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This transcript was automatically generated by Artificial Intelligence and may contain errors or inaccuracies. News at 7 on Radio Observador, with Vasco Maldonado Correia. The Lisbon Camp movement announced a new demonstration this weekend against what it calls speculation and for the right to housing. It is scheduled for Saturday, at 3 pm. A decision that was agreed upon yesterday in the Popular Assembly on Rossio. In a statement, the movement announces that the demonstration titled "We Have No Home, We Set Up Tents" will start from Rotunda do Marquês de Pombal and end at Praça do Rossio. In this note released this afternoon, six concrete demands are made to the government. First, the reversal of the rental law, which is still going to Parliament, an end to demolitions and evictions without housing alternatives. They also ask that the acquisition of housing by real estate funds be stopped, they demand an increase in public housing, a public initiative for the recovery of vacant properties for housing purposes, and finally, the application of genuinely affordable rent caps. The Lisbon Camp movement also appeals to both CGTP and UGT to call for a general strike for housing on November 11, similar to what is happening in Spain. And as has been usual in recent days, this is the time when some protesters start gathering in squares in Lisbon and Porto. Protesters with new demands for housing. Let's take a look around, Vasco. Where shall we start? Let's start in Porto. 7 pm, as you said, it has been the starting hour for these initiatives for practically a week now. Laura Figueiredo is in Praça Dom João I. And Laura, I ask if the square is already starting to fill up at this time and if there are tents around this time. Good afternoon, Vasco. The square is starting; I wouldn't say it’s filling up because it is still quite empty, but yes, without a doubt, more people are arriving who are now concentrated in the middle of the square where the so-called round table discussion about the citizens' legislative initiative is taking place. They intend to start explaining to the people here what they should do to submit proposals to the parties or the government; a small pamphlet has also been distributed to explain the initiative with a QR code that gives access to a form where those interested must indicate what is wrong in the country and what they would like to change. In other words, the idea is to gather proposals to later have the movement reach final proposals that can be delivered to the Assembly of the Republic. As I said, the square is, at least for now, still sparsely populated; it is also quite cold here in Porto. Still, generally, starting from this hour, at least in recent days, more people start arriving. For now, after the initial explanation and some interventions, it is open to anyone who wants to participate, and then the usual popular assembly is scheduled. The tents, as you asked, were put away a few days ago after the police showed up here in the square around 6 am on Monday to Tuesday morning and gave orders to dismobilize. After that, on Tuesday, the movement managed to gather over a thousand people here, but last night and the night before ended early and without tents. The same is expected for today. Cultural programming continues, but the housing movement shows signs of slowing down before Saturday, the day when protesters plan a strong return, although, unlike the movement in Lisbon, details for this protest on Saturday are not yet known here. Report by Laura Figueiredo, live from Praça Dom João I, in Porto. Laura will continue there throughout this evening, another night of protests at Praça Dom João I. In this news, we will also try to go to Rossio, where reporter Maria Miguel Marques is currently located. Maria, I ask you the same question that I asked Laura. At this time, is everything calm over there, are people arriving one by one? Yes, people are arriving. At this moment, about a hundred people are here in Praça do Rossio. The popular assembly has not started yet. The popular canteen is also being prepared for later, for dinner, at 8:30 pm, but for the moment, at least the popular assembly scheduled for this hour has not started yet. The atmosphere is indeed very calm; I only see three police vehicles. Nothing to report in terms of confusion, at least for now. The popular assembly should then try to decide whether these people will stay or not overnight, as has happened, at least last night it did happen. I should also mention that although it is unknown what will happen tonight, if people will stay the night, a new protest is already scheduled for this Saturday starting at Marquês de Pombal, and yes, again in Rossio, and on Saturday the intention to stay overnight continues. I remind you of the demand that persists over these days; this movement has made it clear that these protests will only end with the reversal of the rental law. Report by Maria Miguel Marques, who will also be in Rossio in the coming hours, similar to Laura Figueiredo, following all developments of another night of protests here at Rádio Observador. And five days before the elections in Israel, the current Prime Minister Netanyahu is currently in one of the rare campaign activities, he is in the oldest market in Jerusalem. Accompanying everything on site are the special correspondents from Observador, João Porfírio and Pedro Jorge Castro, Pedro who is live in this news. Welcome, Pedro. Is a campaign activity for these elections in Israel very different compared to what we are used to seeing here? It is quite different, starting with security. It would be predictable, maybe we wouldn't expect it, but to be inside the market, where Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to appear at any moment, I had to go through a metal detector to start. Then they asked me if I had a weapon, which might seem strange, but it's not that bizarre considering there are many armed people in the streets of Jerusalem. A number that has grown since the October 7th attacks. Furthermore, still related to the security issue, it is very difficult to know what the candidates' agendas are, the agenda of the events that the candidates will have. It almost seems like a secret club that advisors inform with only a few hours' notice and without much rigor. This campaign activity taking place here now was scheduled for eight hours earlier; journalists were here, they left home, came back. It seems it will happen now because in the meantime I spoke to some merchants to try to understand why here, why they come specifically to this place. It seems to be one of Netanyahu's usual campaigning spots in other elections. Many people like him, indeed, in these stalls; several people transmitted that to me, that they will always support him, regardless of the scandals and all the other controversies we learn about. He has a large bastion of defenders in this specific market, and also because it is a place where things can be controlled down to the smallest detail. What happened was that they closed a kind of triangle inside the market; there is a corridor intercepted by another wing, where he will pass and where the people walking in the street are not present. There are some people who have agreed to be here. You really have to pass these security barriers. Not everyone is for it, even people who like Netanyahu very much. But, for example, I found French tourists here who came to lunch; they told me that Netanyahu was coming here to do this campaign activity this afternoon and they attended and are waiting for him to appear. At this moment, in Israel, the polls point to a very tight race and a great uncertainty about the outcome. Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu is currently in second place in the polls, behind Eisenkot, but it will be very difficult for us to reach a conclusion on what the new government will be like on election night because there is a great fragmentation among the various parties, according to what all the polls indicate. We will have to watch a tough negotiation between the different blocs to see what comes out of this. Report by Pedro Jorge Castro, with João Porfírio, two special correspondents of Observador live from a more atypical campaign activity in Jerusalem, at least compared to what we are used to in Portugal. Pedro and João will continue to follow the campaign for the elections in Israel, which take place in five days. And there are other news marking this afternoon. Benfica enters the field shortly to face Omonia of Cyprus, in a game counting towards the third matchday of the Europa League group stage. The reds want to add the third consecutive victory in European competitions after triumphs against AC Milan and Celtic. Marcos Silva had promised some changes in the starting eleven for this challenge. Miguel Cordeiro will be on the commentary of the game. Are these changes confirmed? Changes in the Benfica team are confirmed, there had to be, injured players. Here is the 11 chosen by Marco Silva. Goalscorer for Anatoliy Trubin, he is the goalkeeper playing in Europe. Defense with Alexander Bah on the right, El Karouani on the left. The center-backs are Tomás Araújo and Cherkaty. In midfield, Mano Silva is the deepest man, a little further forward Fredrik Aursnes, and in position 10 is Cheddira. They play wingers Rafa Silva on the right, Schjelderup on the left, and up front will play Vangelis Pavlidis. Benfica plays in Cyprus. He was happy here in 1981; they defeated Omonia by 1-0 after winning by 3-0 at Estádio da Luz, back in the first round of the European Cup. At this time, the game is for the Europa League. The two teams only know how to win in this competition. Benfica won the first two games, Omonia did the same. Both teams have six points. Today only one can leave smiling, or they can continue with that tie and continue the fight for points in the Europa League. Miguel Cordeiro will bring the commentary of this Omonia-Benfica. The comments are from Augusto Inácio, João Pinto, and Pedro Henriques. I should also mention that in the other Europa League match involving a Portuguese team, Torrense, against Ferencváros from Hungary at this time, is losing by two goals to one. Torrense's goal was scored by Poso. The game is currently in the 69th minute of the second half. Ricardo, there is a museum in Scotland that had its display cases empty for a reason that is causing a lot of talk and raising some criticisms. There is a controversy surrounding mummies and other ancient Egyptian human remains. But they disappeared from the display cases? In a way, yes. The Kelvingrove Museum in Glasgow decided to remove these mummies because it did not have the consent of the deceased or, at least, their descendants to display them in these cases. They don't have the consent of people who died thousands of years ago, is that right? That’s right, and that's what is causing controversy. The museum says it wants to respect the dignity of the dead, follow ethical guidelines for the exhibition of human remains, but there are clear critics of the decision, including in the Scottish Parliament. What was removed from the exhibition? Among the pieces that were removed is a mummified head of a man, a right hand found in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, and also a right mumified foot. For now, they are kept in the museum's reserves, away from visitors. The final destination of these pieces, including the possibility of repatriation, has yet to be decided. I think it will return soon, because it is the war cabinet, isn't it? Exactly. That's right. So now I'm speechless.