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Iran kwam gisteren met een vrij clownesk voorstel: het zou Hormuz heropenen in ruil voor het beëindigen van de oorlog en onderhandelingen over het Iraanse kernwapenprogramma 'tot een latere datum' uit willen stellen. Volgens Reuters heeft Trump daar in privé nu ongeveer als volgt op gereageerd: "A US official says that President Donald Trump is unhappy with an Iranian proposal because it did not address Iran’s nuclear program. “He doesn’t love the proposal,” the US official says, referring to Trump. Earlier in the day, Trump discussed the proposal with his top national security aides. The US-Iran conflict remains in a stalemate, with energy supplies from the region reduced." 

Ook begint duidelijk te worden wat op voorhand al evident was, namelijk dat de Amerikaanse blokkade voornamelijk Iraanse olie-export tegenhoudt. Bloomberg schrijft: "The US naval blockade appears to be preventing Iranian crude from reaching customers, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, citing satellite images and maritime analyses. Around six to eight supertankers loaded with Iranian oil were idling late last week near Chabahar, a port outside the Persian Gulf close to the blockade line, according to the report. (...) Bloomberg said the buildup suggested Iran was still loading oil onto ships, but traffic through the Strait of Hormuz was near zero and Tehran could soon be forced to shut in production as storage runs out." En nu willen ze ineens vrede. Zou het misschien werken, Trumps blokkade? Afijn, wij gaan weer tankers turven en live.

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After starting the 1986 world championships as a 150-1 outsider victory against Steve Davis led to watching tennis with royalty and being mobbed in Tesco

“It was like a strange dream,” Joe Johnson says as he remembers becoming the world snooker champion 40 years ago as a 150-1 outsider and former gas board and factory worker who was the father of six children. Johnson had never previously won a game at the Crucible and he had struggled for years to make a living as a pro.

It was a time when Britain was “snooker loopy” and Johnson played characters such as Bill Werbeniuk who, in 1985, beat him in the first round while drinking a staggering amount of beer.

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Sunday’s landmark in London was not only unexpected, dramatic and historic – it was a once-in-a-generation moment

A few years ago at the London Marathon, organisers wheeled out an industrial-sized treadmill called the Tumbleator. Then they tempted curious onlookers with a simple question: can you keep up with Eliud Kipchoge? The answer was obvious. But that didn’t stop people trying. Most lasted a few seconds before comically flying off the back into crash mats.

The Tumbleator has a fresh poster-boy now: Sabastian Sawe, who on Sunday claimed track and field’s last holy grail by running a sub two-hour marathon. Imagine sprinting 17 seconds for 100 metres, and then sustaining it across 26.2 miles. Or setting your treadmill at 4min 33sec per mile pace and carrying on for 1hr 59 min 30sec. It sounds ridiculous, impossible, laugh-out-loud stupid … until you realise that is what Sawe did in London.

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Cyber-attacks, disinformation and blockading of supplies. This is what living in a war zone can look like now

We are at war. Four words that sound ludicrously melodramatic on a sunny spring day, when all may not be exactly right with the world – but when you can still shut your eyes to a lot of it just by switching off the news and cracking on with life. No bombs are falling, no bullets flying, no sirens sounding. Though the idea that Britain is already under a form of hybrid attack is commonplace in defence circles, politicians still mostly skirt around it; and it was jolting at first to hear the Labour MP (and former RAF wing commander) Calvin Bailey make the case for conflict being our new reality at a conference hosted by the Good Growth Foundation thinktank last week in London. But then he started to unpack his reasoning for why war is no longer what you think it is.

If war can be considered an assault on five fronts – against a country’s political leadership, critical infrastructure, essentials such as food or fuel supplies, civilian population and armed forces – then Britain is arguably now being attacked on the first four without a shot being fired. Think of rampant, Russian-generated political disinformation on social media and attempts to bribe British politicians; of Russian submarine surveillance of the British undersea cables carrying most of our internet traffic, or the four “nationally significant” cyber-attacks recorded every week; of the blockading of food and fuel supplies through the strait of Hormuz. Think, too, of Keir Starmer’s warning in the Sunday Times last week of conflict with Iran coming home to British civilians via “the use of proxies in this country”. He didn’t elaborate, but counter-terrorism police say they are investigating whether a spate of arson attacks on synagogues, Jewish-owned businesses and Iranians living in Britain may have been sponsored by Tehran – a thugs-for-hire tactic familiar from the Russian playbook for sowing division and hate.

Gaby Hinsliff is a Guardian columnist

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In the Sierra Tarahumara, gangs ‘disappear’ those who resist their lucrative illegal tree-felling operations

Decades ago, the children of Rochéachi village in the Sierra Tarahumara – pine-covered mountains of north-west Mexico’s Chihuahua state – would run through the forest by night. In the rainy season, they would collect fireflies whose glimmering light would flicker through the hollows of the pine trees.

“We had peace. We used to walk and play and be together,” says one mother of three, who asked to remain anonymous, about the forest she once knew. “Now, children can’t go out to play. We don’t know what might happen.”

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Cambridge Audio is one of the UK's great audio success stories. An independent British company, quietly making some of the world's best hi-fi products since 1968. For decades, they've been trusted by audiophiles, renowned for brilliant sound, obsessive engineering and quality that lasts. But while the products kept getting better, the brand hadn't evolved at the same pace. Our role was to open it up: to help Cambridge connect with new audiences, break out of the hi-fi bubble and build long-term relevance.

Minister van Essen van Landbouw, Visserij, Voedselzekerheid en Natuur (LVVN) heeft Nationaal Park Hollandse Duinen officieel de status van nationaal park verleend. Daarmee krijgt het gebied een erkend kwaliteitslabel en meer mogelijkheden voor samenwerking en financiering van natuur- en gebiedsontwikkeling. Het 22e Nederlandse nationale park loopt van Hoek van Holland tot Hillegom en beslaat ruim 18.000 hectare. Het bestaat uit een afwisselend landschap van duinen, stranden, bossen, parken, veenweiden, bollenvelden en stedelijk gebied. In het gebied leven meer dan 7.000 soorten planten en dieren.

Wegverkeer in en om Alblasserdam moet deze week rekening houden met omleidingen. De N915 tussen Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht en Alblasserdam, inclusief de Brug over de Noord, is tot en met vrijdagavond dicht. Dat geldt zowel overdag als ‘s nachts.

Wegverkeer in en om Alblasserdam moet deze week rekening houden met omleidingen. De N915 tussen Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht en Alblasserdam, inclusief de Brug over de Noord, is tot en met vrijdagavond dicht. Dat geldt zowel overdag als ‘s nachts.