US blocks another UN Gaza ceasefire attempt
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
The United States has, for the sixth time since the start of the war in Gaza, vetoed a draft resolution at the UN Security Council demanding an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire in the Palestinian territory. The US said that the resolution failed to recognise Israel’s right to defend itself as well as condemn Hamas. Also: President Trump floats the idea of removing broadcasting licences from US networks that show programmes which criticise him; the "mileage clock" inside a rat's brain which could help in the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease; the former tennis champion, Björn Borg, on how he is battling cancer like a Wimbledon final; and Intervision is Russia's answer to the Eurovision Song Contest but is it entertainment or propaganda for President Putin?
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.6 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:12.4 | I'm Alex Ritson, and at five hours GMT on Friday the 19th of September, these are our main stories. |
| 0:20.6 | As Israel presses on with its assault in Gaza |
| 0:23.2 | City, the US has again blocked the UN Security Council from adopting a resolution demanding |
| 0:28.6 | an immediate ceasefire. Donald Trump has floated the idea of removing broadcasting licenses |
| 0:34.0 | from TV networks that show programs which criticize him. |
| 0:44.3 | France's former president, Francois Alon, tells the BBC about his fears for France and for Europe. |
| 0:55.1 | Also in this podcast, there's something rather unusual happening in Moscow. |
| 1:07.5 | Our Russia editor is backstage at Intervision, President Putin's answer to Eurovision. |
| 1:15.7 | For the sixth time during the two-year war in Gaza, the United States has vetoed a draft resolution at the UN Security Council demanding an immediate, unconditional and permanent |
| 1:21.0 | ceasefire in the Palestinian territory. As before, the text also called for the lifting of all |
| 1:27.3 | restrictions on the delivery of aid and the lifting of all restrictions on the delivery of aid |
| 1:29.3 | and the release of all hostages still held in Gaza. |
| 1:33.0 | Morgan Ortegous, President Trump's special envoy to the Middle East, said the resolution |
| 1:37.8 | failed to recognize Israel's right to defend itself as well as condemn Hamas. |
| 1:43.4 | It wrongly legitimizes the false narratives |
| 1:46.6 | benefiting Hamas, which have sadly found currency in this council. Council members ignored when |
| 1:53.4 | the United States made clear that this resolution was unacceptable. The council instead adopted |
| 1:58.7 | for a performative action designed to draw a veto that extends Hamas |
| 2:03.3 | terrorists and those who fund them and support them and gives them a lifeline. |
| 2:08.1 | The U.S. veto comes as the Israeli army continues its ground offensive into Gaza City in the north |
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