shops, medicine shops, there was more traffic than the previous few days and people are getting used to the new reality. the prominent news channel assumed april cursed with a female anchor and she interviewed a taliban representative, which was history in the making, they would not have allowed this 20 years ago, so the situation is improving inside kabul with more taliban militants having checkpoints and patrolling the streets, and evacuations have resumed at the airport. with regards to what the taliban hope to do in the coming hours is to assert their authority within kabul and the country. for example i spoke to a member of the taliban yesterday at one of the things he spoke about was the formation of a government, he said they wanted an inclusive