This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Alex Ritson and at 13 hours GMT on Wednesday the 2nd of July, these are our main stories.

A blow to Ukraine. The foreign ministry invites a US diplomat for talks after a decision by the White House to suspend vital weapons shipments.

President Trump says Israel has agreed on the conditions for a 60-day ceasefire in Gaza and tells Hamas to accept the deal.

The elderly Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, says he's in charge of the process of choosing his successor, but China doesn't agree.

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Let's start in Ukraine, where Keeve has summoned a US diplomat over a decision to suspend

weapons shipments. On Tuesday, the White House confirmed that some US deliveries

had been put on pause over concerns that US stockpiles are too low. The US hasn't said which

weapons would be affected or the scale of the rollback, but it's believed to include Patriot

air defence missiles and artillery shelves. Ukraine has been urgently requesting war

patriots to protect its cities from Russian attack. Russia has welcomed the news, saying it would

bring the war closer to an end. Kiev has warned any delays will only emboldened Moscow.

Here's the reaction from one Ukrainian MP, Fedir Venislavski.

This decision is certainly very unpleasant for us. It's painful and against the background

of the terrorist attacks which Russia commits against Ukraine. Against peaceful towns, cities, villages,

citizens of Ukraine that die almost every day from such terrorist attacks,

it's a very unpleasant situation.

I asked our diplomatic correspondent Paul Adams, who's in Kiev, how serious this was for

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