well joining me now is annie le t. fi who's a journalist in kabul he's been following the story for us ali off to years of fighting against each other suddenly we're seeing afghan soldiers and taliban fighters hugging it's very rare to see what's behind the ceasefire. well you are right it is a rare scene something unprecedented something we haven't seen in our history pretty much an ever. what's behind the ceasefire that is a multiple number of factors one thing is that the one thing that everyone keeps stressing is that there's no longer a military solution to this war and i think the truth is now that the government the u.s. and the taliban are all coming to this realization we've seen the taliban try and the lawyers for privileged capitals recently for instance in the western province of assad but that you know obviously did not work out and the truth is even if they were able to take provincial capital again as they did in two thousand and fifteen and two thousand and sixteen their ability to hold onto it and to keep