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Pakistan and Afghanistan agree to a 48-hour ceasefire after days of clashes · INSIGHT TODAY

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  Speaker 1: We start the day's other headlines with a temporary truce
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  Speaker 1: between Pakistan and Afghanistan. The neighboring nations have agreed to
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  Speaker 1: a forty eight hour ceasefire following days of deadly clashes.
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  Speaker 1: Tensions flared last week after an air strike in Kabble,
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  Speaker 1: which the Thaliban blamed on Pakistan. Ground fighting has since
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  Speaker 1: been reported at several military posts along both sides of
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  Speaker 1: the long contested border. Pakistan has accused if Hanisthan of
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  Speaker 1: harboring armed groups in the region, which the Thaliban led
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  Speaker 1: government denies. Dozens have been killed. Key border crossings remain closed,
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  Speaker 1: and civilians say the violence is taking its toll.
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  Speaker 2: Firing started from both sides. In our village, shells and
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  Speaker 2: bullets started hitting people's houses. Our request is for both
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  Speaker 2: our government of Pakistan and the Taliban fighters to immediately
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  Speaker 2: stop this war.
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  Speaker 1: Pakistani officials said today that if Khanistan had requested the
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  Speaker 1: temporary truce. Thaliban officials said the opposite, that the ceasefire
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  Speaker 1: at the quote insistence of the Pakistani side. Kenya has
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  Speaker 1: declared a week of national mourning to mark the passing
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  Speaker 1: of former Prime Minister Rila Odinga.
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  Speaker 3: In his passing we have lost a patiot of one
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  Speaker 3: common carriage, Aupan Africanist, a unifier who sought peace and
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  Speaker 3: unity above power and self gain.
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  Speaker 1: President William Ruto says flags will fly at half masted
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  Speaker 1: and Odinga will receive a state funeral. Today, Kenyon's publicly
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  Speaker 1: mourned the man they called Baba or father. Odinga started
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  Speaker 1: as an activist in the nineteen eighties and was frequently
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  Speaker 1: detained by the authorities. He later ran for president five times,
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  Speaker 1: and even though he never won, his populist campaigns and
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  Speaker 1: pro democracy efforts gave him an outsized influence within Kenya
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  Speaker 1: and beyond Riyla. Odinga was eighty years old. Back here
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  Speaker 1: in the US, the city of Los Angeles is under
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  Speaker 1: a state of emergency tonight in response to President Trump's
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  Speaker 1: immigration crackdown. The measure passed last night, and it gives
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  Speaker 1: the LA County Board of Supervisors more power to assist
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  Speaker 1: residents impacted by ice raids in recent months. That includes
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  Speaker 1: providing rent relief to tenants and funneling state money for
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  Speaker 1: legal aid. Separately, in Chicago, an order from a county
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  Speaker 1: judge took effect today barring ICE from arresting people at
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  Speaker 1: court it's become a common tactic for federal agents who've
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  Speaker 1: been stationed outside courthouses for weeks. A federal judge in
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  Speaker 1: Montana dismissed a lawsuit today brought by young climate activists
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  Speaker 1: who tried to stop President Trump's executive orders on fossil fuels.
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  Speaker 1: Their lawsuit argued that actions to boost drilling and mining
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  Speaker 1: and discourage renewable energy will endanger the planet for future
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  Speaker 1: generations and violate their constitutional rights. The judge today agreed
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  Speaker 1: that the plaintiffs have shown quote overwhelming evidence that climate
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  Speaker 1: change will get worse under Trump's orders, but he said
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  Speaker 1: blocking them was a quote unworkable repos quest that was
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  Speaker 1: not for the courts to decide. Boston Mayor Michelle Wu
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  Speaker 1: is pushing back on President Trump's threat to move World
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  Speaker 1: Cup matches out of the city next year. Trump made
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  Speaker 1: the claim while meeting with Argentina's president yesterday, saying the
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  Speaker 1: city had been quote taken over, though he offered no
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  Speaker 1: evidence of that. World Cup sites are worked out with FIFA,
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  Speaker 1: the World soccer governing body, and not under the president's control.
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  Speaker 1: It's a point that Mayor Wu made to a radio
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  Speaker 1: program this morning.
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  Speaker 4: All of that is in conversation and many, many, many
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  Speaker 4: months of planning. Now much of it is locked down
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  Speaker 4: by contract so that no single person, even if they
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  Speaker 4: live in the White House currently can undo it. In
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  Speaker 4: this case, it's a little bit of a you know,
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  Speaker 4: there's no ability to take away the World Cup Games.
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  Speaker 4: There's no real threat when it comes to saying cities
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  Speaker 4: are so unsafe that they can't host the games.
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  Speaker 1: Boston is one of eleven US cities set to host
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  Speaker 1: World Cup matches next year. In Oklahoma, the state's new
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  Speaker 1: public school superintendent says he's rescinding an order from his
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  Speaker 1: predecessor that required Bibles and Bible instruction in classrooms. The
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  Speaker 1: director from former superintendent Ryan Walters had drawn criticism from
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  Speaker 1: civil rights groups and prompted a lawsuit. He resigned from
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  Speaker 1: his post last month. Today, attorneys for the plaintiffs in
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  Speaker 1: the case applauded the decision, writing that the attempts to
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  Speaker 1: promote religion in the classroom and the abuses of power
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  Speaker 1: should never happen in Oklahoma or anywhere in the United States.
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  Speaker 4: Again.
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  Speaker 1: Stocks ended mixed on Wall Street today after a choppy
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  Speaker 1: session of trading. The Dow Jones industrial average slipped just
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  Speaker 1: seventeen points, so almost flat. The Nasdaq rose nearly one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and fifty points. The S and P five hundred
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  Speaker 1: also ended in positive territory. Still to come, on the
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  Speaker 1: News Hour, we hear from federal workers furloughed during the
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  Speaker 1: government shutdown, and an Australian mining executive becomes an advocate
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  Speaker 1: for reducing industry's carbon footprint.
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  Speaker 4: This is the PBS News Hour from the David M.
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  Speaker 1: Rubinstein Studio at WETA in Washington, and in the West,
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  Speaker 1: from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University.