withdrawal is needed to pave the way for negotiations to end the 4 year war on diplomatic editor james baines has more from the united nations they've seemed to reached an understanding but it's too early to say whether this is actually a breakthrough the stockholm deal in december that's almost 6 months ago said the who things should do this and 6 months ome they haven't done it yet they now say they're going to do it in the coming hours from the 11th just a few hours from now to start redeploying going on until the 14th it's no coincidence that the next meeting of the u.n. security council is jew on the 15th the security council putting a great deal of pressure on the who thies i think losing some patience with the who theses donald trump has planned to add tariffs to all the chinese products which already facing import taxes the escalation in the trade war follows the failure to reach an agreement in the latest round of talks. the u.s. has assigned a warship already in the middle east to counter what it calls the iranian threat also in jordan has more from washington. it's being assigned b

after wednesday's attack in the share that killed $28.00 soldiers well our diplomats had said james baines joins us now live from the united nations headquarters and james have been hearing from briefing on the saddle region what's the assessment so far well i think ambassadors will be quite shocked by what they're hearing because often they talk about one country now we're talking about instability and violence spreading across an entire region there are countries in this region that used to be pretty peaceful just a few years ago and they're seeing a great deal of violence between of us so is one of those countries where they've been attacks recently on churches and christians and attacks in recent years that have been getting worse and worse in a country that same 3 years ago was seen as a peaceful place just last week we had a french special op forces operation to free 4 hostages far so for foreign hostages that were being held there 2 of them 2 french citizens were actually kidnapped in a place that's not even in the so hail across the border in but mean it shows i think how difficult