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00:00:16It was a bridge that changed the country, a masterpiece
00:00:19of engineering, one of the largest
00:00:22Portuguese infrastructures, a symbol of Lisbon
00:00:25and Portugal, the first connection between the
00:00:29two banks. The end of the Tagus
00:00:32was thought of when there was still no technology to
00:00:35build it, but technology appeared and
00:00:38the bridge became a reality during the time of
00:00:41the dictatorship.
00:00:48It is 70 m above the water, its highest
00:00:52point is 196
00:00:55m, 300,000
00:00:58officially reported by the people pass through here per day.
00:01:00It is the largest road-rail suspended bridge in
00:01:04Europe.
00:01:11Welcome to the 25 de Abril Bridge, on
00:01:14the day it celebrates 60 years, the
00:01:17day it receives the news.
00:01:46Good afternoon, trial in sight for the minister, the
00:01:49public prosecutor wants to take Luís Neves to court for alleged
00:01:53financial infractions in the judiciary. The
00:01:56process is in the Court of Accounts, but the Minister of Internal Administration
00:02:00revealed that he himself asked for the intervention of this
00:02:03court, while the audit and internal evaluation
00:02:06of the judiciary was ordered by the Minister of
00:02:09Justice, following cases involving the
00:02:12former national director Luís
00:02:14Neves.
00:02:17The days as minister are advancing, but it is his time at
00:02:20the head of the judicial police that continues to mark Luís
00:02:24Neves' agenda. While he insists that everything is fine,
00:02:28the Ministry of Justice ordered a...
00:02:31although without clarifying the scope or the period to be analyzed, he has already said
00:02:35that I am absolutely calm and it's
00:02:38good that all these audits, investigations,
00:02:41inquiries, hearings are done
00:02:45so that in the end the truth of everything comes out,
00:02:48so I want to say that I am absolutely calm and
00:02:51I am also eager, if necessary, to collaborate
00:02:55the Ministry of Justice also determined the
00:02:59opening of an internal investigation to frame what has been
00:03:02disclosed in the media about the internal
00:03:06functioning of the judiciary,
00:03:08but this is not the only open front for Luís Neves, who
00:03:12may face a trial. The Court of
00:03:15Accounts detected irregularities in the PJ in an audit carried out in
00:03:192023, but ended up validating the accounts,
00:03:24notice it and reposition but the Public Prosecutor's Office understood that a fine should
00:03:27be applied. What is certain is that the Court of
00:03:31Accounts in the first
00:03:33happened, there are people who are still instance understood that there was no penalty or sanction, however minimal
00:03:36it might be, therefore, as I understand that this
00:03:39fact should be re-evaluated according to the first analysis
00:03:43of the Court of Accounts, I will contest it and I myself, therefore
00:03:47I will not be judged, I myself will
00:03:50and
00:03:52phase of applications for access to I need to involve the Court of Accounts. At issue are facts
00:03:5620,000 students who requested the related to a company that provided trips and did not issue
00:04:00an invoice. That fact there was
00:04:03to save a police operation of
00:04:07great importance in the fight against transnational
00:04:09organized crime, a decision of urgency had to be made,
00:04:12a decision on confidentiality had to be made,
00:04:15and I want to say the following: the way these trips, and it is trips
00:04:18we are talking about, were acquired, saved money for
00:04:21the state. To RTP, the director of the PJ's
00:04:25drug trafficking combat unit admits that these
00:04:29have been difficult weeks, we are uncomfortable,
00:04:32we feel, as I said, uncomfortable with a set of things
00:04:36that have been said about the institution, let's not
00:04:40confuse the whole with the part,
00:04:43eh, the isolated act of whoever it may be, of any
00:04:47organization, cannot be taken without further
00:04:50ado as an indicator of clear failures in the procedures of
00:04:54the organization in question. In a training
00:04:57action on... Leiria, the only topic was the
00:05:01minister's past, not the controversial communications
00:05:05network, in the middle of
00:05:07and Almada, was inaugurated with expected pomp summer it managed to overlap.
00:05:10The president praised the audit
00:05:15opened by the Minister of Justice and asked for speed in ascertaining
00:05:19the results. António José Seguro warned that it is up to all those
00:05:22who hold public office to defend
00:05:26democratic institutions.
00:05:28And indeed, it is in this sense that I
00:05:31interpret the recent decision of the Minister of Justice
00:05:34to have
00:05:38an audit carried out on the judicial
00:05:41police. What is important is that both this
00:05:45audit and the criminal investigations that are underway
00:05:48produce results as quickly as possible so that we
00:05:52can be aware of these same conclusions. It is very
00:05:55important that everyone, within the scope of their constitutional
00:05:58competencies, acts in accordance
00:06:02with a view to preserving the democratic rule of law and the institutions of our
00:06:05democracy.
00:06:09The contractor who carried out works at Luís Neves' house also carried out
00:06:13works at the house of the current financial director of the judiciary, the information was
00:06:16advanced by CNN Portugal which cited several neighbors of this
00:06:20high-ranking police officer, it was the financial director Álvaro Pires
00:06:24who took responsibility for suggesting the facilities of
00:06:28Construbercelos to house a trailer seized in a
00:06:31drug
00:06:32operation.
00:06:38The national examination board guaranteed that the grades for the
00:06:42appeals will reach the schools tomorrow morning,
00:06:45they will be posted in the afternoon,
00:06:49but the school principals warned that it will be very
00:06:52difficult to publish these
00:06:54grades.
00:06:56He took two Portuguese exams, went to the second phase without knowing the final
00:07:00grade of the first, because he requested a re-evaluation of
00:07:04the test. There was an error in the correction of my test, which was that they swapped
00:07:07the versions, I had done version two
00:07:11and they corrected it according to the version, that is, the questions
00:07:14I answered correctly, did not match,
00:07:17or even zero for questions that were exceptionally correct.
00:07:21Do you have any idea how many fewer points you had with
00:07:24this error?
00:07:26I would say it could be five or six
00:07:29points, points that make a difference in Francisco's life,
00:07:33currently prevented from applying for the course he chose in higher education. The
00:07:37wait may be prolonged because the reclassification process is delayed and
00:07:40this Friday it runs the risk of only finding the
00:07:44grade of the second exam fixed, will you have
00:07:47confidence in the grade that will appear tomorrow, if it appears
00:07:50tomorrow? I don't even have confidence that they
00:07:54will appear tomorrow, do you feel that you were a disadvantaged
00:07:56student?
00:07:58Yes, in schools Thursday afternoon was a
00:08:02waiting game, at this moment the schools have their principals there, they have
00:08:06their secretariats there, they have other types of teachers there who are
00:08:10waiting for the file that doesn't reach the information. It ended up arriving in the middle of
00:08:13the afternoon in a communication addressed to the school principals, the national
00:08:17examination board guaranteed that on Friday the students
00:08:21will consult their grades. The national examination board informs that
00:08:24the respective grade lists will be made available tomorrow,
00:08:28August 7th, during the morning, so that the
00:08:32schools can post the grade lists during the
00:08:35afternoon. If all this were running normally, today,
00:08:39Thursday, the schools would be receiving the files with the
00:08:42classifications. Up to this moment this has not
00:08:45classifying or re-evaluating the tests, it will be difficult for these
00:08:49grade lists to actually be posted, with many doubts about the
00:08:52re-evaluations, the expectation is that it will at least be possible
00:08:56to fix the grade lists of the second
00:08:58phase.
00:09:01The deadline for the first
00:09:05higher education ends today. The more than
00:09:08review of their tests have 3 more days to
00:09:12apply.
00:09:15The choice is well defined, I chose in first
00:09:18place management at ISEG, at the Institute of
00:09:22Economics and Management, followed by management also at
00:09:25ISCTE, the dream is management,
00:09:29it remains only to be seen if it will come true. Pedro is one
00:09:33of the thousands of students who completed their application for higher
00:09:36education and with confidence. I know I have a stable
00:09:39average, but even so it's hoping that they will leave few averages.
00:09:43Although there are 20,000 students who are entitled to three extra days because
00:09:46they are waiting for grades from the reviews,
00:09:50there are already more registrations than in the previous year. The GES
00:09:53recorded this Tuesday about 55,000
00:09:57applications in this first phase, numbers that
00:10:00exceed the 49,000 registered in the first phase of
00:10:04last year. This year there are also more than 56,000 vacancies,
00:10:08an increase of 834 in relation.
00:10:13to
00:10:132025,
00:10:17for Pedro and thousands of other students, the future
00:10:20is now becoming a little more real with the end of the
00:10:24deadline for applications for higher education, at
00:10:27least for the majority, it's
00:10:29done,
00:10:33household debt reached an all-time
00:10:37high, but what truly worries the Bank of
00:10:40Portugal is something else, the foreclosures are
00:10:43next.
00:10:52We are broadcasting the news live
00:10:55from the 25 de Abril bridge. The importance of this bridge is also
00:10:58measured by numbers, every year 100 million
00:11:01people pass through here, that's 300,000
00:11:04per day, an average of 2,500
00:11:08workers work here per day, about 2 million over 4
00:11:12years, the total construction time was built in
00:11:154 years from November 5, 1962 to August 6,
00:11:191966 and was named
00:11:22Salazar Bridge, a name that changed
00:11:25with the revolution to 25 de Abril Bridge,
00:11:29it was completed 6 months ahead of
00:11:32schedule.
00:11:33It's a route she knows by heart,
00:11:37Barreiro Lisbon by train across the 25 de
00:11:41Abril bridge.
00:11:42I started crossing
00:11:47more or less 40 years ago
00:11:50to cross the bridge.
00:11:55Every day, Irene is already retired, but she still comes to Lisbon
00:11:59in the same way, blessed
00:12:02train gave me so much happiness
00:12:06then I always peeked at the river, which is the most beautiful thing
00:12:10there is here in
00:12:12our country, the memories of the bridge go back
00:12:15to when it was built, at that time not
00:12:19everyone had cars, gentlemen passengers, it was light,
00:12:22it was an adventure, it was beautiful as if it was. on vacation in
00:12:26the most beautiful place it was
00:12:29that I remember everyone adults, children, everyone wanted to cross
00:12:33the bridge, crossing the bridge today is synonymous
00:12:36with work routine for thousands of people,
00:12:40I work on that side and I live on the south bank and it's the bridge and it's the
00:12:44train every day, yes, every day, every day for about 13, 14 years
00:12:47now, I've been working in Lisbon for about 46 years, 46 years
00:12:51of bridge, yes, I know the bridge very well too, this
00:12:55trip is familiar, on top with old
00:12:59trucks and now with the train since it started, I go every day
00:13:02Monday to Friday, always across the bridge, always across
00:13:06the bridge, in my country, which is São Tomé and Príncipe, I used to hear
00:13:09about the bridge, I've heard about the bridge, always school
00:13:13and now I cross it every day, now I cross it every day, we are
00:13:17needing another bridge also closer to the 25 de Abril bridge,
00:13:20one like it maybe from Belém to
00:13:23Trafaria there. Maybe there would be much more quality of
00:13:26life,
00:13:30an average of 133,000 train
00:13:33passengers pass through the 25 de Abril bridge
00:13:35per day, but there are more people who prefer to drive
00:13:39and there the numbers go up,
00:13:42150,000 vehicles pass through the 25 de Abril bridge
00:13:45per day on average, you
00:13:49see, but I'll only take half an hour, half an hour is a luxury,
00:13:52normally how long does it take? 5 55, if there is
00:13:56an accident it takes an hour and a half, an hour and a half, I've already taken 3 hours
00:14:00for the Charneca da
00:14:03Caparica, Lisbon route, Andreia Dias always goes by car
00:14:07to work, I tried to go by train, it's too many people
00:14:11and I even felt sick from being
00:14:14there because we are completely crushed, it's only
00:14:17relatively recently that I started going by car, Vítor Martins also
00:14:20crosses the bridge by car every day. It's part of
00:14:24my daily life eh
00:14:26curiously on this 25 de
00:14:29Abril bridge my late father worked on it
00:14:33and so it's a bit part
00:14:35of the history of
00:14:39life isn't it life and it will be part as long as I work and as long as I
00:14:43work in Lisbon the journeys require
00:14:46patience for those who live on the south bank I have to
00:14:49think that there is an obstacle here and the obstacle is called 25 de
00:14:53Abril bridge what is the advantage? There is more quality of life
00:14:56attention accident we have an
00:14:59accident well at this moment we have an accident there's no point in having
00:15:02stress there's no point in anything because it's part
00:15:06this is for those who live on the south bank it's part I think
00:15:09you have to be very patient
00:15:13very resilient to do this every day
00:15:15and
00:15:18take this time in traffic patience from
00:15:21those who have learned to live with the bridge.
00:15:30A lot of people crossing the bridge, following the traffic flow,
00:15:34Ana Picos is there right now.
00:15:39"Hello Z and endless traffic and people tell us
00:15:43the same thing, if there used to be rush hour, nowadays it's
00:15:47always rush hour on the 25 de Abril bridge, 150,000
00:15:51vehicles pass here on average per day, but also
00:15:54133,000 passengers who travel by train in
00:15:57both directions, on average per day, so 300,000
00:16:01people, as a curiosity, the first car that passed here on August
00:16:056, 1966 was the..." a green
00:16:09Austin Seven, very difficult to find today, very difficult
00:16:13to find it, especially on top of the bridge deck, because it's a collector's
00:16:16car, on that day 50,000 vehicles passed, but
00:16:19also at that time crossing the bridge was a luxury, it was a privilege, not
00:16:23all families had a car and when they crossed the bridge
00:16:27it was almost a family event, they gathered in the same family
00:16:30car to arrive in Lisbon today it was exactly
00:16:34what we saw in the report, the bridge is used. By
00:16:37thousands and thousands of people who work every day and with
00:16:41this advantage of having this view every day, which ends up
00:16:45being a postcard of Lisbon to the
00:16:47world,
00:16:53a view that serves as a backdrop to the news today, the
00:16:57day the bridge celebrates its 60th anniversary. Household
00:17:00debt in Portugal reached an all-time high, but what
00:17:03truly worries the Bank of Portugal is... the trend,
00:17:06household debt already exceeds
00:17:09180 million euros and the weight
00:17:12of that debt in income rose again last
00:17:16year, largely due to housing credit.
00:17:20180
00:17:23million euros, the number is given by the Bank of
00:17:27Portugal and represents all Portuguese household
00:17:30debt. It is a high number, in fact, the highest
00:17:34since records began, even counting the 2008
00:17:37financial crisis, but since then much has changed and this debt
00:17:41has another weight, naturally that inflation and economic
00:17:45growth explain part of this record value, but there are other factors, for
00:17:48example, the rise in housing prices, housing prices which are a
00:17:52very large component of household debt
00:17:55has grown very sharply, in the last year it grew above
00:17:5917%. Disposable income grew only
00:18:03slightly above 5%, so it is normal for debt to also
00:18:06grow. This debt worries the Bank of Portugal,
00:18:09especially in housing credit, more than
00:18:12half of the contracts made with
00:18:16people who bought housing under 35 years are made precisely with a
00:18:20public guarantee, also other more structural factors of low
00:18:23frequency such as, for example, very low unemployment rates
00:18:27lead to people having a greater capacity for debt against
00:18:31future income, even if this capacity is not felt
00:18:35by everyone, the warning from the Central Bank in May was clear, the
00:18:39poorest are at greater risk of default,
00:18:42life seems to be more expensive. The home loan is like this, sometimes my husband
00:18:46says: wow, it's, it's, it's, right, the interest is very high,
00:18:50thank God we're getting by, right, but sometimes
00:18:54you have to, right, not eat out to
00:18:58balance the accounts, in my case yes, I have felt this
00:19:01difficulty, it is quite difficult
00:19:03to maintain minimally.
00:19:08daily expenses are all controlled, and sometimes we
00:19:12feel that they really don't have money, because they look at the amount and even
00:19:15want to buy bread, but
00:19:18well, they look for cheaper supermarket bread, this
00:19:22month new rules came into force to tighten the search for
00:19:25credit, Portugal is one of the few countries in the euro zone where
00:19:29household debt represents more than half of the national
00:19:32wealth.
00:19:35Families invested almost 300 million euros in the new
00:19:38treasury certificates, the new series has only been available for
00:19:42a month, attracting the savings of 8,300
00:19:45investors, the average investment was around 28,000 euros. The
00:19:49new treasury certificates have improved interest rates with an
00:19:53average rate of 2.7%. The
00:19:55Ministry of Finance concluded that this new state product
00:19:59managed to attract the savings of small
00:20:01savers.
00:20:08A footwear factory in Gaia laid off 60
00:20:11workers without prior notice, July salaries and
00:20:15holiday subsidies were left unpaid, a debt that exceeds
00:20:18100,000 euros. Since Friday, employees have been at
00:20:22the company's door. They now hope that insolvency will be declared,
00:20:25the factory's inventory will be made and with a sale at auction they will receive
00:20:29what is owed to them, the administrator of Sapatos Pontual
00:20:33keeps his cell phone turned off.
00:20:36The president warned of a
00:20:41possible generational tragedy, if nothing
00:20:44happens in elderly care. António José
00:20:47Seguro visited a new residential structure near Viseu
00:20:51and said that the state had resigned from its
00:20:54care functions for the elderly. The president regretted that only the
00:20:58social sector makes investments and stated that the
00:21:02problem is worsening.
00:21:05It is unacceptable that the
00:21:08state has so largely abdicated its responsibility to
00:21:11respond to this need that drives thousands of families to despair.
00:21:15It is not up to the social sector.
00:21:18thousands of families painfully await an answer to the worsening trend of a problem that we all
00:21:27have a duty to prevent from turning into a generational
00:21:30tragedy.
00:21:32A storm hit the Azores and forced
00:21:38more than 60 people to be evacuated from a
00:21:42campsite.
00:21:43Russia launched new mass attacks
00:21:52against Ukraine. In the last 24 hours, dozens
00:21:56of people died, mainly
00:21:59civilians. Ukraine is intensifying attacks
00:22:03on Russian strategic facilities that have aggravated
00:22:07fuel shortages. This time it was two oil
00:22:10refineries. The fire was visible from
00:22:14a distance. The Russian defense minister stated that
00:22:17600 Ukrainian drones had been shot down in a
00:22:2112-hour period, these equipment are
00:22:24reused to confuse about the
00:22:27true perpetrators of the offensives,
00:22:30Lithuania is on alert. There are drones
00:22:34intercepted by Ukrainian Russians,
00:22:37some drones fall and those
00:22:41details and drone fragments,
00:22:44the drone parts, Russia has them,
00:22:48it is able to, well,
00:22:50construct them, assemble them into one working
00:22:53device, a
00:22:56theoretical possibility that such a device, such drones,
00:23:00could be used in a false flag operation,
00:23:04there has intensified, overnight
00:23:07three people died in the city of Balakliia in the
00:23:11Kharkiv region, and in a drone offensive on a
00:23:14train station in Lozova, two people
00:23:18lost their lives.
00:23:29We asked and they said a specific place near the shelter
00:23:33to gather and wait for further
00:23:37instructions on where and how that train will be and they will tell us whether
00:23:41they will take us somewhere else or maybe it will come here yet
00:23:43nothing. In the neighboring region of Sumy,
00:23:47Russia launched eight aerial bombs that...
00:24:20military equipment, Ukraine is working with European
00:24:23companies on the development of a new missile
00:24:26defense system, capable of intercepting
00:24:30Russian ballistic
00:24:31missiles.
00:24:34Iran reached an agreement with Oman on the Strait of Hormuz. The
00:24:38terms of the agreement are not yet known. The United States seems
00:24:41to be out of this understanding, with the Trump administration complaining
00:24:44that the nature of the Iranian regime is hindering
00:24:48negotiations.
00:24:51With the American midterm elections increasingly
00:24:54closer and the polls increasingly
00:24:57far from approving the war, Donald Trump went to a
00:25:00casino in Las Vegas and told supporters that he is putting his
00:25:04chips on an understanding with
00:25:06Iran.
00:25:14Adding that, contrary to what has been reported, it is not due to a lack of
00:25:17weapons and ammunition in the American arsenal.
00:26:02meaning that we have already achieved significant progress
00:26:06in talks with Oman and this progress. The authorities of Ceuta revealed
00:26:21that there are 6,000 people living in the city without
00:26:25documents. The president of the regional government fears a new
00:26:28massive entry into the enclave. Ceuta, the reports are of
00:27:02civilian militias organized on social media to
00:27:06expel migrants from some neighborhoods of the city,
00:27:10in the opposite direction,
00:27:13a desperate attempt to help as quickly as possible, because in
00:27:16Ceuta time is not playing in favor.
00:27:30There are at least six.
00:28:22In Ceuta, the regional president repeats that what happened shows that the security of the autonomous city
00:28:26is in the hands of Morocco and that the country
00:28:29does not even recognize Spanish sovereignty.
00:28:36The 25 de Abril bridge celebrates its 60th birthday today,
00:28:39which is why the news is being broadcast from here and this
00:28:43is one of the great engineering works of the European 20th century, for its
00:28:47construction 72,600 tons
00:28:49of steel, 74,196 km
00:28:53of steel wire and 263,000
00:28:56cubic meters of concrete were necessary, it is
00:28:59a suspension bridge with a total length of...
00:29:022,267 meters, the largest
00:29:06suspended span in Europe with road and
00:29:09rail traffic and the third largest in the world. The two main
00:29:12carbon steel towers measure 196 meters
00:29:16above water level. The south pillar has a depth
00:29:20of 80 and is the second deepest in the
00:29:23world.
00:29:29We are all used to seeing the Lisbon bridge.
00:29:32or Almada, but Daniela Santiago is in the
00:29:36river with a different perspective. Hello Daniela, what
00:29:39changes with this change of
00:29:41perspective?
00:29:45Good evening, José Rodrigues dos Santos, the main
00:29:48visual issue, the visual
00:29:51impact, changed before this river, this
00:29:54estuary where the Tagus enters the Atlantic, was
00:29:58completely clean, open, without structures.
00:30:0260 years ago, or we could say, more, when
00:30:06the bridge started to be built, it started to have this red
00:30:09roof and this giant steel
00:30:13structure 70 m high, then it goes up to
00:30:17196 there was a big change, a big
00:30:20change in the ecosystem, in the river, obviously
00:30:24this noise that frightened the first people to
00:30:28cross the bridge and that has to do with the two central lanes that
00:30:32are... from a perforated steel grate and not from
00:30:35asphalt and also so that the wind can pass and give
00:30:38stability to the bridge, there is no one who
00:30:42enters Lisbon by bridge or by air when the
00:30:45air corridor goes in this direction and the planes are approaching
00:30:49the runway or when you board here on cruise
00:30:52ships, it is not possible to forget this
00:30:56beautiful image of the bridge and that allowed this great
00:30:59alteration before, on the other side of Almada, they had to travel... 70
00:31:03km to the bridge at Vila Franca de Xira to
00:31:06cross to the other side, now they cross in a few minutes and this made the
00:31:10population on the south bank
00:31:13triple. in just two decades, all
00:31:17this with the change of the bridge and we are privileged,
00:31:21because down here I say the bridge is very
00:31:24beautiful.
00:31:28We start with the zero floor, where the
00:31:32cars circulate.
00:31:35João and Vítor will take us down and
00:31:39then up there.
00:31:42We walk 300 meters along the walkway next to the deck until we reach
00:31:46pillar three, you need a key to enter
00:31:49and
00:31:52pass through the door measuring 40 cm by 90,
00:31:55the displacements are also inspections, Victor
00:31:59is always attentive, this has millions of screws and most
00:32:03of them have been here since the 60s and we have never had any
00:32:07major problems, if one breaks we go there and replace it, inside the
00:32:11pillar we will circulate in cubicles with little more than 1
00:32:14m2, passing through equally small
00:32:17down stairs to
00:32:20reach dozens of landings separated by
00:32:23hatches. The footing is
00:32:2724 landings below the deck, almost at river
00:32:30level. This is where we find the
00:32:34divers. We are going to start the underwater inspection of the
00:32:3725 de Abril bridge.
00:32:39abril.
00:32:42In this inspection level, there is nothing relevant to
00:32:45report that I have seen, no
00:32:47hey
00:32:51there, it was free I didn't stop
00:32:53now they are finishing another day
00:32:57of inspection of the base of the pillar
00:33:00which is good here with the tide we had a bit shorter
00:33:04working time with the tides being high but we managed to complete the objective of today today
00:33:07they had to remove mussels this instrument is
00:33:10a scraper which is what we use to remove mussels that
00:33:14are attached to the surface of the pillar, if we don't remove
00:33:17the mussels we can't check if there is any
00:33:21damage or any fissure.
00:33:24Underwater inspections on this bridge are carried out every 5 years, no
00:33:27cracks or detachment of concrete were detected during the inspections.
00:33:30Victor now takes us up
00:33:34there. We're going to climb 70 levels,
00:33:37196 m within the steel
00:33:40structure. 2/3 are done inside an
00:33:44elevator. about 75 cm2, without
00:33:48it we would have to climb 650
00:33:50stairs. The climb inside the elevator
00:33:54will take 3 minutes and 40
00:33:56seconds.
00:34:00Before reaching the top, it is still necessary to overcome seven more
00:34:03levels and a
00:34:05padlock.
00:34:10I like to come up here because it's always different, that is, the home is more crowded or more
00:34:14empty or there are new boats. the planes passing by, it's verification day for the
00:34:17illuminations, I got up there, I just confirmed that the lighthouse is on,
00:34:21that's good, because it's for the airplanes and it has to be always
00:34:24working, take the opportunity to check the alignments of the lighting, if there is any lamp that
00:34:28might be burned out, so that we can then schedule its replacement, also take the opportunity
00:34:32to check the spacers of the suspension cables,
00:34:35because there might eventually be a slight deviation and we immediately
00:34:39them,
00:34:42we always have a map of things to check and since I'm up here... it allows me to see
00:34:45this entire half of the bridge with the five, we
00:34:49do inspections daily,
00:34:51monthly, annually, we always do inspections, it is always
00:34:55in good condition, that is, whoever built it, built it well and we are
00:34:58very reassured. With Vítor, there are 26 people who
00:35:02look after the bridge, every day they watch over the steel and
00:35:05iron, but from time to time down below, there are other travelers
00:35:09who catch their
00:35:10eye.
00:35:17Next to a pillar of the bridge is, as we can see, Clara Osório, hello Clara,
00:35:21on the day there is an earthquake, how will the bridge
00:35:24behave?
00:35:27That, Zé, is a highly pertinent question and a good one to ask
00:35:31at this moment when we are 196
00:35:34meters above the level of the Tagus River, we have with us a kind
00:35:38of condominium administrator of this red postcard of Lisbon
00:35:41and of Portugal,
00:35:44Pedro Abegão. The answer is that the bridge would hold up in case of an earthquake, the question is asked
00:35:48because in '60, when this bridge
00:35:51was inaugurated, it was said that it was the best place to be if there was an earthquake in the Portuguese
00:35:55capital. Good evening, in fact the structure of the
00:35:59to seismic
00:36:02action, eh it means that in
00:36:05case of an earthquake its elastic behavior
00:36:09allows it to absorb, to counteract the
00:36:13forces that are induced by...
00:36:15by an earthquake to prove this very point and just to
00:36:18frame this answer, the bridge has a structural
00:36:21monitoring system that includes, among other equipment, a
00:36:25seismograph. For example, a few years ago there were
00:36:29two relatively close earthquakes in Lisbon, the seismograph
00:36:32recorded these same earthquakes, the conclusion of the
00:36:35analysis of the results, of the records we had
00:36:39was that effectively, for example, at the level of the road deck, anyone
00:36:43who was circulating at the time of the earthquake
00:36:47did not feel any difference regarding the normal
00:36:50vibration of the 25 de Abril bridge, there is another curiosity here, we up
00:36:54here have total stability, we feel the wind and...
00:36:57but we know that this bridge eh also
00:37:00moves, it can oscillate 1 m to each side, how does that work in such
00:37:04a large structure like this? Yes, in
00:37:07fact, given these characteristics of elasticity
00:37:11the bridge eh allows
00:37:14longitudinal displacements of some
00:37:18magnitude, for example, here at the top of the towers, the maximum
00:37:21amplitude of movement can be up to 2 m, that is,
00:37:25let's imagine the reference being a vertical
00:37:28plane, the two masts can, let's say,
00:37:32move towards each other by up to 1 meter
00:37:35then move away again passing through the
00:37:39reference point and opening in the opposite
00:37:42direction also by up to one meter, hence its amplitude and that is why it is resistant,
00:37:45it can bend but it does not break. Pedro has been
00:37:49here for 18 years managing this gigantic and vital
00:37:53structure for circulation between the north and south
00:37:57of the Tagus. Is there any story you can tell us? I think
00:38:00there was once a strange package that caused a big commotion here.
00:38:04Yes, that's right, in fact, it was detected
00:38:07that someone left a package on the
00:38:11road deck and after
00:38:13analyzing the available information, it was decided
00:38:17to completely close the deck and call
00:38:20the PSP bomb disposal squad. It was in 2015, I
00:38:24will now have to speed up this story, it was a suspicious package that
00:38:28was just a bag of dirty clothes, so from here
00:38:31we are watching the sunset on this special day, it is
00:38:35August 6th, it is six decades of
00:38:38the 25 de Abril bridge and we are 196
00:38:42m above the level of the Tagus
00:38:44River.
00:38:49Clara Osório in a live broadcast that even gives vertigo to those
00:38:52watching. In our company is the president of Infraestruturas
00:38:56de Portugal. Very good afternoon or good evening already,
00:38:59welcome, what is the biggest challenge for
00:39:02the management of this bridge? Well, the biggest challenge
00:39:06is not such a big challenge, we have, as you saw in the previous
00:39:09piece, we have highly specialized teams that every day
00:39:12ensure that the bridge is in perfect conditions, what is the most sensitive point
00:39:16of that, the most sensitive point basically is the structure itself, we are now going to
00:39:20make some interventions at the level of the global painting of the bridge then when it
00:39:24is 70 years old, that is, in 10 15 years, we have to make a very
00:39:27structural intervention on the bridge and with that alteration, with that
00:39:31intervention we will have to eh stop
00:39:33traffic, interrupt traffic, but by then we will already have the third
00:39:37crossing Chelvas Barreiro also the Algés tunnel
00:39:40with the redundancy that will allow us to then interrupt traffic to make
00:39:44that intervention that is desired to be more profound eh because it is an old
00:39:48bridge, although it is in perfect conditions, but in prevention and
00:39:52safety it is advisable to make that intervention, eh as you know this issue of the
00:39:55bridge is, in fact the minister Pinto Luz spoke about how
00:39:59with these four, with these four crossings we are going to make
00:40:03a city with two banks, make a city that embraces the Tagus, make
00:40:07better mobility and accessibility to the south bank in a
00:40:10project that started 60 years ago and today it is
00:40:13unthinkable for us to think about how we would function without a
00:40:1725 de Abril bridge and you rightly mentioned
00:40:20a new crossing is coming, a new airport, when will
00:40:24work begin for this new crossing? This new crossing will be
00:40:27tendered next year, we must have
00:40:31the bridge ready by 2034 due to
00:40:34accessibility to the new airport or n and this is a commitment
00:40:38that exists on the part of the government and also on the part of IP
00:40:41regarding what it does to support and then the Algés tunnel
00:40:44eh perhaps a year or two years later but everything also depends on the concession
00:40:47regime that the government will announce shortly but it is a decision made because it allows
00:40:51us to then make the desired intervention on the bridge without burdening motorists.
00:40:55This bridge was built and the works finished ahead of
00:40:59schedule, can we have the same confidence regarding this new bridge? I
00:41:02believe so. Portuguese construction lately, yes, but we will resume that
00:41:06Portuguese tradition, eh, this bridge took four years to build and finished, as you rightly said,
00:41:09well ahead of schedule, but in general our bridges, the Vasco da Gama bridge also
00:41:13finished within schedule and we will certainly be able to
00:41:16and make these crossings happen because they really
00:41:20have to. One last question, you are the president of Infraestruturas de Portugal, this
00:41:23winter we had a train of weather. states with widespread destruction in some
00:41:27sectors of the country, especially the Leiria region, and also here in the Lisbon
00:41:31district, something, six months later there are still many roads or
00:41:35several roads that remain closed with... how will this problem be
00:41:38solved? Eh we have on the website a
00:41:42page that provides online monitoring
00:41:45of the opening of these roads, we had 376
00:41:49roads intervened, eh we managed to reopen
00:41:52little by little, the most difficult cases were left for the end, we had to do drainage when it stopped raining, then the drier
00:41:56weather came to do all those geotechnics to
00:41:59then create the projects to open the roads, at this moment we have 21 of them, we hope to
00:42:03open all of them, all of them no, we hope to open at least
00:42:0716 or 17. by the end of the year, the other five, four, five
00:42:10will be for the first quarter of next year,
00:42:14eh, Paulo Carbona, thank you very much for being on the news,
00:42:17thank you.
00:42:23Two inquiries have been opened into the death of one of the detainees from the ship
00:42:27with five tons of cocaine.
00:42:39Hello. Here we are, the program that brings
00:42:43longing to the immigrant community spread across
00:42:45the world,
00:42:48we talk about aspects that mark our island,
00:42:51events,
00:42:55but also to kill a little of the longing
00:42:58and
00:43:01I like this, I like this balance, I like this
00:43:04rhythm, Atlântida
00:43:08this Saturday on... TP
00:43:10Mundo
00:43:14there are extraordinary people
00:43:17who keep our history alive,
00:43:21as long as they sing,
00:43:24shape and
00:43:26dance. Portugal continues
00:43:30to be Portugal. You are seeing the boom that this gave to
00:43:34Moguão's workshop. Extraordinary. This
00:43:38Thursday. on RTv mundo
00:43:56it is said the current economic situation is
00:43:59worrying or the current economic
00:44:03conjuncture is worrying, I
00:44:06think it's conjuncture, we are living a difficult conjuncture.
00:44:10or a difficult conjuncture conjuncture, a
00:44:13conjuncture is a conjecture possibly
00:44:16conjuncture is I think so a difficult
00:44:20conjuncture please conjecture or
00:44:23conjuncture conjuncture, oh boy
00:44:27this is complicated this is complicated, it's a case
00:44:31to say it's a complicated
00:44:34conjuncture. The correct form is conjuncture,
00:44:38which means situation or circumstance,
00:44:41conjecture is synonymous with supposition or
00:44:45hypothesis, this is how one speaks in good Portuguese,
00:44:49a conjuncture, a conjuncture, that is
00:44:51absolutely correct.
00:45:01Embark on this national journey through new
00:45:04places of strong cultural identity,
00:45:08getting to know the most...
00:45:10initiated traditional festivals and pilgrimages from the passionate
00:45:14perspective of local inhabitants,
00:45:16it is they all year round it is
00:45:20this without end, pilgrimage of my
00:45:23heart, premiere of the second season,
00:45:27Friday, right after the news on RTP
00:45:30world, good evening Lisbon, first the
00:45:34conversation, Lisbon is also that, that inclusion of everyone,
00:45:38isn't it, after the silence. of this
00:45:40voice,
00:45:44of this guitar and of this
00:45:46fado,
00:45:50an entire night, in times gone
00:45:54by,
00:45:57at Amália's
00:45:58house,
00:46:03live in blessing of
00:46:06the moon, you have soul and heart.
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00:47:01Two inquiries have been opened into the death of one of the detainees from the ship with
00:47:055 tons of cocaine. The man was found dead in his cell
00:47:08and prison guards believe he was
00:47:12cooperating with the authorities. The judiciary denied that the crew member
00:47:16was an informer.
00:47:19The judicial police admit that a relevant
00:47:23piece of this investigation was lost, it was an important
00:47:26piece from the beginning in the sense that all the
00:47:30evidence that existed pointed to his
00:47:33involvement in this criminal dynamic, he was a member of the
00:47:36crew of this cargo ship, he was
00:47:39found dead in his cell. The suicide of someone is
00:47:42always something that touches us all,
00:47:46when it happens inside a prison it touches us
00:47:49even more because it is a state structure. Now
00:47:52precisely that, inquiries are underway,
00:47:56two inquiries are now underway, a criminal inquiry,
00:47:59according to the PJ, and another inquiry by the General Directorate of
00:48:03Reintegration and Prison Services. The guards
00:48:06reveal that the Indian citizen was alone in a
00:48:09cell. It was requested by the inspectors of the judicial
00:48:13police that he should be alone in a cell. Normally when
00:48:16requests are made by the court, or by criminal police bodies
00:48:20and of the two, either it is the danger to his life, or because
00:48:23he is cooperating with the authorities. When one talks about danger to life, in what sense can
00:48:27this happen? The danger to life could also be in the sense
00:48:31that someone is cooperating with an investigation and the others, the other
00:48:35detainees, eh, do not want
00:48:38him to cooperate and harm him, so we
00:48:41suspect that he may have been cooperating with the judicial
00:48:45police. The judicial police confirms that
00:48:48there was an attitude of cooperation, but makes one thing clear.
00:48:53No, he was not an informer, absolutely, absolutely
00:48:56nothing, he was someone who up to a certain moment of the investigation was completely
00:48:59unknown to us. RTP knows that it was through
00:49:03that Indian that more than a ton of cocaine was found
00:49:07hidden deep in the ship's hull. In the cells there is
00:49:10no video surveillance according to the national union
00:49:14there were two or three guards for
00:49:17150 inmates.
00:49:19The storm Musaço forced
00:49:23the evacuation of more than 60 people from a campsite,
00:49:26thunderstorms and heavy rain caused
00:49:30floods and
00:49:31landslides.
00:49:37It seems strange in mid- August, but it is not a
00:49:40rare phenomenon in the Azores. The
00:49:43night from Wednesday to Thursday was like this, clearer
00:49:46and noisier, with more
00:49:49than 19,000 electrical discharges. between 10
00:49:53p.m. and 10 a.m., the island where
00:49:56there were more electrical discharges, right over the island, we are talking right over the
00:50:00island, it was on Pico island, this happens, so the temperature with the humidity in the month of
00:50:04August are both very high, on the other hand there is already atmospheric
00:50:07instability and this instability together with the high relative humidity and
00:50:11high temperature makes it favorable for the formation of large
00:50:15vertical development clouds that cause thunderstorms. As a
00:50:18precaution, the campsite of Praia da Vitória on Terceira
00:50:22Island was evacuated, 67 people spent the
00:50:25night in a school, among them a group of young people
00:50:29who were at a party didn't notice
00:50:32anything. When we arrived, they were all
00:50:35here in the street to go to the vocational school, we wanted to go to the tent, they didn't even
00:50:39let us go there anymore, if we arrived at the park, they were
00:50:42evacuating all the people, we went to our tent, it wasn't raining at all
00:50:46inside our tent, everything was fine, we even stayed
00:50:49lying down for a while to see if we could stay inside our tent. Because we understand that there
00:50:53are people who might even be bad, but we had no problem,
00:50:57today they forced us to leave, they were tearing off the wristbands of those who didn't want
00:51:01to leave so they couldn't enter the park anymore, and now
00:51:04today is the best day of sunshine we've had, this
00:51:08Thursday the weather improved, the IPMA changed the orange warning
00:51:12to yellow, during the night the storm caused
00:51:16a landslide on a road and floods in
00:51:19some houses, but there are no records of...
00:51:26We already know, the 25 de Abril bridge was inaugurated on this day
00:51:2960 years ago. Over six decades, the bridge
00:51:33has accompanied various phases of the country's history.
00:51:35On
00:51:38that day, the sun of Portugal could not miss a national
00:51:42celebration like this one, the inauguration of the Tabazar Bridge.
00:51:44The enthusiasm in Henrique
00:51:48Mendes' voice shows how special this day, August 6,
00:51:5119966,
00:51:52was.
00:51:55The new bridge over the Tagus, uniting Lisbon
00:52:00and circumstances. The main figures
00:52:03of the regime were present. António
00:52:07Souza Silva was also there, he was a 31-year-old
00:52:10photographer, he is now 91, I shot seven
00:52:14rolls, I shot more than seven rolls, I don't know, I don't know
00:52:17where I put them, with the protocol set up on the Almada
00:52:21side, António decided to go to the Lisbon
00:52:25side, he was alone, he ran or not, or it was not necessary
00:52:28to run, it was force, he did not have
00:52:31vertigo, he did not look down, today I do. Obviously not at
00:52:35the time, so when he arrives at the other side,
00:52:39Salazar Bridge, waiting for them to press the button, there it
00:52:43is. No one has that photo,
00:52:47everyone was there on the Almada side, no one, the inauguration concluded an ambitious
00:52:51work that lasted almost 6 years, but even finished ahead of
00:52:54schedule, an engineering feat with an American company
00:52:58and thousands of Portuguese workers, many more than the four
00:53:03dictatorship died. it was much faster in service, wasn't
00:53:07it, while sometimes I had to go around to Vila Franca, now
00:53:11through here I save an hour or so, it is with the 25 de Abril that the
00:53:14first great transformation takes place in the revolutionary vertigo of
00:53:181974, the dictator's name no longer fit
00:53:21in the streets. Salazar falls again, this
00:53:25time with the letters knocked down by a metalworker's sledgehammer, they improvised
00:53:29by writing by hand what would remain for the future. During.
00:53:33the bridge had
00:53:37the most anticipated name, with
00:53:39the country rapidly changing, one could count on at least one
00:53:43constant, this Sunday's beach may turn out to be the one that
00:53:46had the most traffic on the bridge over the Tagus,
00:53:50it was 7 o'clock when the congestion started,
00:53:54there are about 12 km of traffic moving slowly,
00:53:57in 1994 the bridge
00:54:01became a battlefield, a 50% increase in the price.
00:54:05this toll leads to a several-day honking and hours of
00:54:09waiting in traffic, this is a country
00:54:11of sheep, because otherwise everyone would pass and no one would pay anything, I heard the
00:54:15prime minister say that if he were a motorist he would also
00:54:18honk I would be able to do
00:54:21the same. The peak of this The crisis happens when a group of
00:54:25truck drivers blocks the bridge at dawn. The government
00:54:29arrives by helicopter to assess the situation that quickly becomes
00:54:32explosive. Foga.
00:54:35I have 2 minutes, at the end of which I will
00:54:37proceed.
00:54:40young people throw stones at the intervention police,
00:54:44violence of the police charge is the symbol of the fall of
00:54:47Cavaco Silva's era, it is already another prime minister who
00:54:51inaugurates the bridge train, another will cross it
00:54:54running, the deck is the most coveted stretch of the half
00:54:57marathon, when the bridge escapes motors and tires,
00:55:01it becomes momentarily calm,
00:55:04a tranquility that not even the peak of the pandemic brought
00:55:07it.
00:55:10It has already been the stage for an
00:55:12unprecedented performance.
00:55:17James Bond has already passed through it,
00:55:21it even had a cascade of fireworks.
00:55:25It is the crossing of millions to the north and to the south, on
00:55:28a working day or on a day off, speeding or stuck in
00:55:32traffic, for 60 years that this...
00:55:35also crosses the history of the
00:55:37country.
00:55:42Now for sports, Francisco Campos won the first stage in
00:55:45line of the Volta a Portugal bicycle race, the race has
00:55:49a new leader, Rui
00:55:51Oliveira.
00:55:54To the west, all new and with 21 nationalities
00:55:58in the tour, the strong possibility and beyond the landscape, of impressive
00:56:01beauty, the climbs of the second half of the stage
00:56:05surprised someone, transforming the hypothesis of an
00:56:08idyllic journey into a nightmare, so says
00:56:12Julius Johansen, for the capacity of the
00:56:15Dane, first leader of the tour, it wasn't even necessary to
00:56:18scale the wall of the Moors to take away the spirit of
00:56:21conquest, for some reason, steep,
00:56:24Sintra has spectacular and clear views,
00:56:28it was clear there that in Queluz the tour would have another
00:56:31leader. Rui Oliveira thought again about victory, but did not manage to
00:56:35be side by side with Daniel Caviada Burgos and Francisco Campos
00:56:38from Tavira, the author of the first sprint victory in the first
00:56:42stage in line, an Algarve victory curiously before the
00:56:45tour packed up in Aldeia Feira and yes, despite being fourth in the stage, it was
00:56:49this time that Rui Oliveira wore the Yellow Jersey at the Queluz Palace,
00:56:52heir to his colleague Rei position that on the
00:56:55eve he only
00:56:57postponed.
00:57:01The yellow jersey changed hands within the same team.
00:57:05For the new yellow jersey, it was the fulfillment of a
00:57:08dream.
00:57:11A simple gesture anticipated what the road later confirmed, the farewell to the
00:57:15yellow was the most probable scenario, which didn't... my
00:57:54objective was to win a stage, I had never dreamed
00:57:58of wearing yellow, today I wear
00:58:02yellow,
00:58:04tomorrow a whole stage in
00:58:07yellow,
00:58:10I'm going to try to enjoy it, I know that many people are
00:58:13happy for me, Francisco Campos won in a sprint at the finish line at the Queluz
00:58:17National Palace, on a very difficult day for the team, the final brought
00:58:21the best compensation, with this climb to Sintra
00:58:24it ended up selecting the group a little more and favoring me even more
00:58:28because pure sprinters don't usually make it and that favors me immensely
00:58:32it ended up being a day,
00:58:34an extraordinary day for me and I am very happy, the
00:58:38finish line
00:58:41was crooked, ah, so we had
00:58:44Noah who had to abandon today and
00:58:48Afonso who is our leader ended up puncturing
00:58:51on the climb on the second mountain of the
00:58:55day and changing bikes with a teammate, losing the front
00:58:58group and in fact things
00:59:01were
00:59:04one of those things where everything seems to go
00:59:06wrong then you arrive and
00:59:09that happens which
00:59:13was almost better than when everything goes well. This Friday the arrival at...
00:59:17Fora will be another great opportunity for the fastest men in the
00:59:21peloton.
00:59:24The "Bons Sons" festival has begun. For 20 years, the
00:59:28village of Cem Soldos has hosted Portuguese music and thousands of
00:59:32visitors.
00:59:35On the outside, it's just a typical Portuguese cafe,
00:59:38Antónia Eurídes, a name and life, and this is one of the
00:59:42few establishments in Cem Soldos. Inside, the rhythm
00:59:46deviates from normality.
01:00:17contribute to making the village a festival. I was the
01:00:20cook for the volunteers, the security guards, the
01:00:24artists, everyone came to my table, everyone
01:00:28ate their delicacy, everyone ate my delicacy, these are
01:00:31memories that 20 years later are part of the
01:00:34collective imagination, those who were here and stayed
01:00:38still remember that first edition in
01:00:412006, I don't easily forget it because I worked with a good
01:00:44humor, I made all the huts.
01:01:50And the newscast ends here at the moment when the
01:01:5425 de Abril Bridge lights up to celebrate its
01:01:5760th anniversary. Good night, we will see
01:02:01each other again tomorrow.
01:03:40There are traditions that cross centuries, others almost
01:03:44disappeared, but all have something in
01:03:47common, they survive because someone decided not
01:03:50to let them die, in every corner of Portugal,
01:03:54there are those who keep ancestral knowledge alive,
01:03:58they are the guardians.