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Cheat Sheet with Ridge & Frost
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🗓️ 16 April 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
There are hopes that a ceasefire could be reached in southern Lebanon, where Israel has continued to carry out strikes.
And there are positive signs for peace between Iran and the US too, as they are expected to meet once again in Pakistan next week for a new round of negotiations.
The BBC will cut up to 2,000 jobs as part of its biggest downsize in 15 years.
Sir Keir Starmer will meet leaders from Meta, Snap, Google, TikTok and X to discuss how to protect young people online.
Three prisoners were released in error every week in England and Wales over the last year.
One in five teenagers in the UK do not share their political views due to a fear of being "cancelled", according to a new report.
And a Chinese man has been sentenced after attempting to smuggle thousands of live ants out of Kenya.
Sophy and Wilf have the day's news in just 10 minutes.
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| 0:00.0 | Sky News, the full story first. |
| 0:05.0 | There are some positive signs for peace talks between Lebanon and Israel as well as the US and Iran. |
| 0:19.0 | One in five teenagers in the UK do not share their political views due to a fear of being |
| 0:24.3 | cancelled according to a new report. |
| 0:29.4 | Hello, you're listening to Cheechy, a 10-minute podcast on the day's news. |
| 0:33.2 | It is Thursday the 16th of April. |
| 0:35.2 | I'm Sophie Rich. |
| 0:35.9 | And I'm Wilfred Frost also today. |
| 0:37.3 | A man's been sentenced to a year in prison in Kenya |
| 0:40.0 | for trying to smuggle something quite strange out of the country. We'll tell you what. |
| 0:46.9 | So there are some positive signs that a ceasefire could be reached in southern Lebanon. |
| 0:53.7 | Israel have continued to carry out strikes there, of course, despite the ceasefire could be reached in southern Lebanon. Israel have continued to carry out |
| 0:55.2 | strikes there, of course, despite the ceasefire between the US and Iran. As ever, these are all |
| 1:01.8 | very tentative. So Donald Trump has said talks between the leaders of Israel and Lebanon will |
| 1:06.6 | happen on Thursday. As ever, this is true social. He said he's trying to get a little |
| 1:11.6 | breathing room in his words between the two countries. So we also understand that Israel's |
| 1:17.4 | security cabinet believed we've met last night with considerations of a ceasefire top of the agenda. |
| 1:24.4 | And Hezbollah, which is such an important, of course, part of all of their staff, |
| 1:29.6 | they have told our US partner network NBC News that momentum is building towards a potential |
| 1:35.5 | ceasefire. Bearing a mind, of course, Hezbollah initially saying that Lebanon should not even |
| 1:39.5 | take part in these talks. Obviously, earlier this week, the two US ambassadors of Lebanon and Israel met. |
| 1:47.4 | Very high profile for now the two actual leaders to speak, which they haven't done for a very long time. |
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