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

I'm Valerie Sanderson, and in the early hours of Sunday the 1st of June, these are our main

stories. The US special envoy, Steve Whitkoff, has called the response of Hamas to the

American's Gaza ceasefire plan totally unacceptable. The militant group has neither fully rejected nor totally accepted the plan.

Tehran has hit out at a new UN report that raises fresh concerns about its nuclear program,

describing the findings as baseless accusations. In football, Paris Saint-Germain has made history

by winning the European Champions League

for the first time, thrashing into Milan 5-0.

Also in this podcast?

Yes, indeed.

We are just doing more exercises, but still, the Chinese leader, are still talking about

a peaceful reunification.

Beijing pushes back against the US Defence Secretary's assertion

that China could invade Taiwan soon.

There's little sign that attempts by the United States

to broker a ceasefire in Gaza are heading towards a deal between Israel

and Hamas. Earlier Hamas said that it agreed to releasing 10 Israeli hostages who are still alive

and the bodies of 18 in exchange for the freeing of Palestinian prisoners. But it also expressed

strong reservations about the deal because it didn't include guarantees on aid and ending the war.

Soon after, President Trump's peace negotiator Steve Whitkoff rejected Hamas' position.

A Jerusalem correspondent Barbara Plet Usher has more.

It was Steve Whitkoff who formulated this proposal, this outline, this framework for a ceasefire, and he has

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