welcome to our viewers on public television in america and also around the globe. after 12 years of brutal war in afghanistan there were two important positive to ailments today. america announced it will hold direct talks with the taliban and the meetings could begin as early as this week in doha. that announcement came hours after nato handed over control of combat operations to afghan security forces. from kabul, we start our coverage. of the past 12 years the afghan war has cost those nations fighting it around 20 billion pounds. than their is the cost in lives lost, tens of thousands of afghans and 3000 dead foreign troops. the uneasy truth is far from being defeated the taliban are still fighting. now claiming political legitimacy by opening an office in the gulf and still calling themselves by then name they were in afghanistan. with all countries in the world including the neighboring companies countries. they marked the formal handover of afghan security from n