this over more i'm joined now by michael semple he's a senior fellow at the cia are our center for human rights policy at harvard kennedy school thank you so much for joining me now it seems like planning and taking responsibility for these tax right outside of the afghanistan presidential palace right before the peace talks that means that you're not interested in peace talks is that how we should interpret the taliban's actions. i don't think that anybody should expect the taliban to play soft their spokesman made quite clear that they are not on ceasefire yet and this is what you call a fight and talk strategy they are saying that they're ready to go into talks but they're saying that we're not going to stop fighting until there's some kind of a cease fire but at the same time with this fight and talks strategy are you really brokering a peace deal when you're outwardly attacking the people that you're trying to talk with it i would certainly i would say that you cannot expect to go very far in peace talks on this issue prepared to go on to a cease fire you cannot be in a room talking with people i

this was trying to earlier by michael semple who's a senior fellow at the cia our our center for human rights policy at the harvard kennedy school he filled us in on the latest with the taliban peace talks. i don't think that anybody should expect the taliban to play soft their spokesman made quite clear that they are not on ceasefire yet and this is what you call a fight and talk strategy they are saying that they're ready to go into talks but they're saying that we're not going to stop fighting until there's some kind of a cease fire but at the same time with this fight and talks tragically are you really brokering a peace deal when you're outwardly attacking the people that you're trying to talk with it i would certainly i would say that you cannot expect to go very far in peace talks unless you are prepared to go on to a cease fire you cannot be in a room talking with people if outside your your comrades are trying to kill them so i think very very soon in this process we will get to see whether the taliban are serious or not so are you saying that the moves that they made today are evidence tha