host: william davison, your thoughts, is there enough trust between the 2 parties that could lead toess on substantive issues? >> perhaps what we are looking for realistically from these talks is cessation of hostility, renewing the agreement in place from the federal and tigray governments. what we should recognize is these are important negotiations, because they represent the beginning of a formal african union internationally supported process, and therefore they probably in the long run will be the way that this conflict is resolved and the way it should be resolved, but i think we have a rather long way to go. as your other guests have made clear, if the issue is under what terms could we have a cessation of hostilities? currently we have active military confrontations in tigray with one army attempting to establish control over all federal festivities. while the tigray delegation says they want the cessation of hostilities, they say they went eritrea's military to withdraw and it is not clear that the government will agree to cessation of hostilities if the federal army keeps

earlier, i spoke to william davison, the senior ethiopia analyst at the think tank international crisis group. he told us why the different parties at loggerheads rigidly started after a political dispute between the 2 great leaders and the federal government turned into a constitutional dispute in 2020 that led to the outbreak of, of civil war. ready in november, hence the war began, we've seen atrocities. we've seen, the federal government allies essentially besieged to graze region. we've also seen our region take a portion of the greys territory. so the reasons for the war have evolved since it becomes now good, cherish recently spoke of an alarming situation. integrate? is it international pressure that has actually prompted these peaceful am? yes, i just understand that that correct, that may be the african union and its partners that particularly the us have been active in trying to get us to conduct. 1 negotiation we're yet to see of course, whether these tools actually have heard that it's gonna be very difficult to make progress in any tool that that can be, which is set to be