The main suspect in last year's deadly Paris terror attacks had apparently planned to launch a suicide bombing, but changed his mind.

Salah Abdeslam's told Belgian authorities he abandoned his suicide vest last November before the shootings and bombings started.

He was arrested in Brussels yesterday.

The Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel has said that while he has no problem with the extradition, proper procedure will have to be followed and this could take some time.

Sarah Collins, a freelance journalist in Brussels, says both the French and Belgian leaders are putting up a united front;