r u. k, the taliban is moderate in the u. s. hopes to work with the taliban. at least until the u. s. can extricate itself from this war torn countries. max abraham's associate professor of political science at northeastern university in boston. we appreciate your time. thanks for joining us here on our end to national anytime i will take the story even father. we continue on breaking news coverage here on the asi, international live now to cobble to ortiz morales guest vf, who has been joining us now throughout the evening, hours here on the international with breaking news mode. we've just watched the pentagon press, the not much frankly was said about these attacks at the board to confirm the tax with the cobble app or do you have any updates for us now from the afghan capital it will things the things are very tense here in the last 20 minutes we've heard 2 more explosions. one of them powerful is being corroborated by local press, no, no indication as to the source. well, what is happening, though, there is some talk of as strikes. we have cartoon no way of confirming that but there