The Lebanese government is close to approving an American plan to disarm the U.S.

designated terrorist group Hezbollah.

The decision marks an historic first to dismantle the Iran-backed group.

The agreement proposes an aggressive timeline to complete Hezbollah's disarmament by the end of the year

in return for Israel's withdrawal from Lebanon south, plus an end to hostilities.

Special correspondent, Simone Fultin, has more from Beirut.

A new order is taking shape in the ruins of Lebanon's latest war.

Last year, Israel killed almost the entire leadership of Hezbollah and thousands of its fighters.

Now there is a plan to take what remains of its weapons. Not far from where Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah for 30 years,

was killed with U.S.-made bunker-busting bombs last fall. I sat down with one of the group's parliament members.

This was an American paper that was discussed within the Lebanese government.

The paper is a complete submission from the Lebanese to the American government.

The so-called American paper was presented by President Trump's special envoy, Tom Barrack.

The backlash was further fueled last week when he called the Lebanese press corps

animalistic during a chaotic news conference.

And I want to tell you something.

The moment that this starts becoming chaotic, like animalistic, we're gone.

So you want to know what's happening, act civilized, act kind, act tolerant, because this is

the problem with what's happening in the region.

Barrack later apologized for those comments.

The plan he is pushing once the Lebanese government to first disarm Hezbollah, and only then would Israel consider withdrawing from the areas it still occupies in Lebanon south.

They will meet tick for tat, in exact cadence, what we will do in an effort to make sure that Hezbollah is not armed as an adversary against

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