well for more on all this let's bring in journalist ali latif he who joins us from kabul hello to you ali so the talks have opened today with a ceremony and a number of speeches but what what was the main message at the start of these historic negotiations. so everyone has their own message dr up the law who is heading the peace portfolio for the afghan government made it very clear that they want to ceasefire an all around cease fire on humanitarian grounds and this was something very important this is something that they're trying to stress from the very beginning of these talks where is the total audience that you know that they want to create an islamic system that brings all of the of on people together and that serves them all and that are right some of the wrongs of the past of course of us have on constitution since the founding has always been based on islamic law so you know what that means people still don't know and might pompei o the u.s. secretary of state who people see as sort of the in force or there really is whole point in being there is to force these sides to actu

and journalist ali latif he is standing by for us in kabul hello to you ali so talks have finally started but the afghan government and the taliban have very different visions for the future of the country is there any room for compromise. this is what. everyone is going to wonder is that and i think this is why mike from a.o.l. was sent there the u.s. secretary of state to make sure that they come to some sort of an agreement because if you were following this process all of the preconditions to start these talks included the release of tall upon prisoners in the taliban releasing government prisoners and they all stalled they found different ways to stall the process along the way and it was only a couple weeks ago that the national security adviser of the united states called that afghan president and basically said you need to be sincere about this you need to move on this is taking too long and so pump alles position there is most likely to do that to ensure that these groups actually sit down and come up with some compromise as much as he said the political system the future is up t