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07:42The state of alert in Portugal will last until Thursday with high temperatures, particularly in the north of the country.
07:53Romania's government said on Monday that it will use an EU support package to help people affected by flash floods
08:01that left at least three people dead in the country's northeast.
08:05The aid consists of amounts between 3,000 and 5,000 euros per case, which will be granted after damage assessments have been carried out.
08:15Bucharest will also activate the EU Solidarity Fund, through which Romania can access hundreds of millions of euros for the reconstruction of the areas.
08:24But this money will only arrive in a few months, according to the Romanian Prime Minister.
08:30In Sucheva alone, approximately 78 million euros is needed for the reconstruction of the city of Brusteni and other affected localities.
08:39At least three people were killed when torrential rainstorms hit Romania in late July.
08:45Hundreds were forced to leave their homes as rescue services deployed in Nemt and Sucheva.
08:51Some 680 homes were affected by the flash floods, which destroyed 41 houses, according to local media reports.
08:59Some lawyers and politicians in Germany are becoming concerned that freedom of expression is being restricted.
09:11They say state-funded reporting centers established to combat online hate too often misjudge opinions for hate.
09:20In isolated cases, citizens have reportedly been victims of police raids for posting memes critical of the government.
09:30Two such NGOs are now so-called trusted flaggers.
09:35Under the EU's Digital Services Act, they're supposed to remove illegal content from the Internet.
09:40Lawyers say they see too many connections to politics.
09:44Trusted flaggers are now because they are half-staatliche organizations,
09:49which are with state-of-state organizations, at least a large part, financed and ultimately decide to decide to decide to decide whether the Internet is legal and not legal.
10:02Some politicians in the governing CDU don't want to continue commissioning these trusted flaggers,
10:31indicating a possible government dispute.
10:34Es geht darum, aus unserer Sicht, dass die Plattformen und Social Media kein rechtsfreier Raum sind,
10:42in dem justiziable, strafrechtliche Dinge passieren, wie Hetze, wie Verleumdung, wie Bedrohung, wie Mobbing.
10:49All diese Dinge sind sehr ernst zu nehmen.
10:53Und deswegen hat die Kommission ja das Instrument der Trusted Flag etabliert,
10:57um diese illegalen, strafbaren Inhalte auch meldefähig zu machen.
11:03Gelöscht wird gar nichts. Das ist ja eine Kritik, Zensur und Löschung durch die Trusted Flagger.
11:09Die Trusted Flagger melden auf Basis der Leitlinien und der Gesetzgebung und die Plattform entscheiden und prüfen.
11:16Also diese Diskussion wird geführt werden definitiv.
11:20Ich bin in der DDR groß geworden. Ich sehe das sehr sehr skeptisch, dass man auf diese Art und Weise brutale schafft,
11:26Möglichkeiten schafft, dass jeder jeden irgendwie anzeigen kann.
11:31The coalition agreement states that false statements of fact are not covered by freedom of expression.
11:37Germany is also further ahead than other countries with trusted flaggers.
11:4114 EU countries still haven't appointed them.
