rory challands reports from baku. >> reporter: a flurry of diplomacy.following a meeting foreign ministers discussed the violence. azerbaijan sees a start to a comprehensive settlement process. >> everyone recognises the status quo is unsustainable, unacceptable. the schooner there are ideas, then it will be more outrageous of the clashes and so on. >> what cesar azpilicueta wants is for pressure to be put on armenia. the best position to apply the pressure is moscow. they lobbied hard and they have strong relations. we are more idea. more than any other partners. those that suffer are displaced people. people that live in the region, and the region itself. it's a region under mined. russia's prime minister is in the van on thursday, to meet the ar thennian counter -- armenian counterpart. they warn of a hot face. russia has been unable or unwilling to push as hard as they want. armenia shows little signs of protecting them in the regions. the guns are mostly silent now. renewed violence could pull russia and azerbaijan into the fighting with more destr

a political analyst is joining us now from baku. this line of contact, obviously, remains tense. so when is a ceasefire not a ceasefire. one side were saying we are going to stop pulling the triggers and the other side was saying that's nothing more than an information trap. so what is it request in your mind? >> i think currently the ceasefire, it is an ongoing tensions between the two sides, but small fighting, but i think it will be resolved in a few days more, in the next few days >>> resolved in what way and will that resolution last because multiple attempts at peace over the past two decades have failed. >> yes. it's true. there's a lack of trust between the parties and most things is that there is lack of proactive talk to mediators. they want to stop the escalation not to lead into the war between the parties. right now the question is not who fired the first shot. the question is that why the international media is lack of proactivity >>> just to interrupt you. mediators surely need a momentum behind them. if part of that momentum is to come from russia or vladimir puti

sergey lavrov held talks with him in baku. russia has helped to hold a truce in the territory. >>> sod sides in january agreed to a transitional government in sudan, reappointing the former vice president. >>> hundreds of bangladesh students protested against the killing of a liberal blogger. a law student who had expressed secular views on line was hacked with machetes and sheen shot. demonstrators blocked roads around the university demanding those responsible be arrested. we know how many assailants there were. are the authorities talking about an official motive here? >> no, their usual answer is they're looking into it, there will be investigation into it. of course most of the people are arrested on suspicions and they're usually from a brand of local militants organization, although we can't independently confirm those things. bangladesh has experienced last three years, six of these blogger killings, along with writers and even in some cases journalists. there were a couple of journalists, both were killed inside their

i believe baku has been trying to attract more of the international community's attention into the conflict resolution efforts where, at the same time, this escalation coincides with over the period of time when armenia decided to enter the russian eurasian union citing security reasons. i would say statement given that russia remains a peace broker but at the same time, an important arms dealer. >> exactly because both are buying weapons from russia. >> indeed. i would say when there is more, when there are more weapons, westminster, there will be more escalation. >> or the threat of escalation always hage over the situation. >> yes. >> so we have these two countries, armenia and azerbajain after the break-up of the soviet union. they reach a truce in 1994. fundamentally, the conflict has not been resolved. it's essentially in stalemate, frozen with the occasional flare-up of violence. where do we go from here? does this situation just go on? >> indeed, the situation will go on unless the sides do find the courage to set up -- to step up and to go for concessions, so to say. given that the

hadid's work includes the glittering opera house in guangzhou, china, the curved heydar aliyev center in baku, azerbaijan, and the london aquatics center used for the 2012 olympics. zaha hadid was 65 years old. still to come on the newshour: donald trump's foreign policy advisor on the g.o.p. frontrunner's world view. why several presidential hopefuls are having trouble winning over women voters. china's president in washington amid unsual public criticism, and much more. >> woodruff: we return now to politics, and a look at where the candidates stand on foreign policy. tonight, we focus on republican frontrunner donald trump. he met with his foreign policy team earlier today. and we are joined now by one of the advisors in that meeting, walid phares. he was an advisor to mitt romney in the 2012 campaign. welcome to the program. >> thank you very much. >> woodruff: you just told me the meeting went on two hours. there's been a lot of criticism mr. trump is not well informed whin it comes to international affairs. how well informed is he? >> in this meeting we felt he was informed about many a