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

I'm Jackie Leonard and in the early hours of Thursday, the 5th of June, these are our main stories.

The United States has vetoed a UN Security Council resolution demanding an unconditional ceasefire in Gaza.

Donald Trump says President Putin told him in a phone conversation that Russia

will seek revenge after Ukraine hit Russian bombers at the weekend. And the government of the Democratic

Republic of Congo has banned the media from reporting on the former president Joseph Kabila and his

political party.

Also, in this podcast, we remember the pioneering gay author Edmund White, who's died aged 85.

I think it would have been very annoying to the reader to read page after page of all this suffering and self-hatred. I stylized that even, and even so people find it a bit much.

The stylized that even, and even so people find it a bit much. The United States has vetoed a UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate,

unconditional and permanent ceasefire in Gaza. It was the only member of the council to vote no.

The other 14 members voted in favour of the document,

which also demanded the release of all hostages

and the lifting of humanitarian aid restrictions.

The US ambassador to the United Nations, Dorothy Shea,

called for Hamas to release its remaining hostages

and laid out the US objection to the resolution.

It is unacceptable for what it does say. It is unacceptable for what it does not say.

And it is unacceptable for the manner in which it has been advanced.

The United States has been clear. We would not support any measure that fails to

condemn Hamas and does not call for Hamas to disarm and leave Gaza. After the vote, the United

Kingdoms ambassador to the UN, Barbara Woodward, condemned what she described as an expansion

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