t.v. comedy central m.t.v. analysts say the merger will allow the new company to compete with streaming services nearly a 3rd of portugal's gas stations are completely out of fuel or have run partially dry as fuel tanker drivers had been striking for 2 days the drivers who are demanding better salaries and working conditions agreed to go back to work but said they wouldn't do extra time their 2nd walkout this year has raised the specter of severe problems during portugal's busy tourist season. the national guard is keeping field at post safe and it's giving convoy protection to petrol and diesel shipments to ensure basic supplies reach filling stations and airports. on the 1st day of the strike the government designated it a national emergency effectively making participation a criminal offense the dangerous goods drivers union thinks that scandalous. we're going to attack we saw under the dictatorship where we fought for our rights with this democracy but the government is clearly ignoring our rights will be unstable w