UN chief warns that the Middle East risks sliding back into a wider conflict [SOUND]

# United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, has warned about the consequences of escalating violence in the Middle East, and has urged full support for a two-State solution. Peace negotiations between the US and Iran currently remain deadlocked, while a recent exchange of strikes threatens to derail progress already made. Addressing the Security Council yesterday, Guterres warned that the ceasefire between the US and Iran remains precarious, describing it as “more like a lesser fire”: