Alex Ritson

Take the 5th of April as an example. Three separate users made more than $280,000 by betting that the temperature would reach 19 degrees Celsius. And the reading at the airport unexpectedly jumped by 5 degrees that evening. It's led to some online speculating that there may have been some tampering. A hairdryer applied to the sensor being, according to the accusers, the most obvious weapon of choice.

French police have confirmed they received a complaint from France's meteorological agency and they're investigating. Well, chalk, we have contacted Polymarket for comment. We've had no response yet.

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Olen Alex Ritson ja viimeisenä viimeisenä viimeisenä 24. aprilinä nämä ovat meidän mainitustamme. President Trump sanoo, että Lebanon järjestelmä on kestävännyt kolme viikkoa myöhemmin diplomatiikin puheenvuoron jälkeen. Yhdysvaltalaisen turvallisuuden puheenjohtajan puheenjohtajat sanovat, että määrittelyä, joita on tehty, on tehty Haitiin vahvistuksen vastaan.

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If President Trump has a chance of turning a ceasefire with Iran into a peace deal, he needs Israel and the armed group Hezbollah, which is backed by the Islamic Republic, to hold their fire in Lebanon. Tehran has made this a condition of any lasting agreement with the United States, and there's been a significant reduction in attacks in Lebanon since a ceasefire there was agreed last week.

But it's fragile. On Wednesday Israeli strikes killed at least five people, one of them a journalist. And on Thursday Hezbollah fired rockets into northern Israel. With the ceasefire in Lebanon due to expire on Sunday, a second round of direct talks between the Israeli and Lebanese ambassadors in Washington was convened in the White House. There Mr. Trump announced some good news.

Hezbollah rejected any Lebanese negotiations with Israel as the Israeli army continues to occupy a large part of southern Lebanon. I asked our North America correspondent David Willis if Mr Trump was more eager to get involved in Lebanon for the sake of getting a deal with Iran.

He does, Alex, saying that Lebanon is a beautiful country that got torn apart and adding that the United States is keen to get involved, work with Lebanon in order to protect it from Hezbollah. And President Trump said that Lebanon and Israel have, as he put it, a common problem, namely Hezbollah. And following these high-level meetings, he is clearly hopeful, it would seem, that a ceasefire can be sustained, Alex.

Lebanon has agreed to the ceasefire, but not Hezbollah, which Israel has been fighting. So, given that, can this three-week extension actually achieve anything? Well, it's a million-dollar question. President Trump made clear that the United States' close ally Israel has the right to protect itself should it come under attack. Israel, of course, has established that self-declared buffer zone in southern Lebanon, and Hezbollah regards them as

as occupying forces in that area. Hezbollah has said it wants the ceasefire to continue on the basis of full compliance, as it puts it, by Israel, but there remains considerable mistrust. President Trump also wants the ceasefire to hold, not least because it was his decision to attack Iran that reignited hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel.

Since when of course nearly two and a half thousand people have been killed in Lebanon according to the Lebanese authorities. Mr. Trump knows that a broader truce has to involve Lebanon and Mr. Trump told reporters...

Hän toivoo järjestää Israelin puheenjohtaja Benjamin Netanyahu ja lebanilaisen presidentin White Housein tulevaisuudessa toiminnassa. Hän toivoo järjestää puheenjohtajat ympäristön tasolla seuraavaan faseeraan, jossa Lebanon toivottavasti pystyy...

Israel wants, of course, the dismantlement of Hezbollah. But what's happened today is significant, despite the carve-outs, such as giving Israel the right to defend itself if it's struck by Hezbollah. Significant as well, Alex, in that the US is willing to get involved, as we mentioned, in Lebanon.

David Willis. President Trump remains in a bullish mood with Iran, denying that he's keen to end the war with Tehran. He claimed that the US Navy had sealed up tight the critical oil waterway, the Strait of Hormuz, and that it will remain that way until Iran makes a peace deal. But the Islamic Republic is showing no sign of backing down on its demands that the US end its blockade of Iranian ports. Here's our security correspondent Frank Gardner.

So the situation in the Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz is once again a kind of stalemate, a bit of a logjam really. The good news is that of course the ceasefire is more or less holding. The full-scale war has not resumed. The president, Donald Trump, has not carried out his threat to target power plants and bridges across Iran, although Iran doesn't trust him and thinks that that could still happen at any minute. But the bad news is that there are not one but two blockades going on on this vital waterway.

Iran, joka, vaikka Yhdysvallat tykkää siitä vai ei, on jonkinlainen kontrolli Hormuunin rannalla. Se on suurin rannallinen rannallinen rannallinen rannalla. Se on suurin rannalla.

The ability to target ships. It's attacked three ships in the last day or so. It's reportedly seized two of them. So it's still a threat to shipping. And at the same time, the US has imposed a naval blockade on all Iran's Gulf ports. Not on the Strait of Hormuz per se, but on Iran's ability to export its oil and to import produce.