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I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

The Nobel Committee praised this year's Peace Prize winners for their courageous fight for freedom of expression in the Philippines and Russia.

We speak to Dmitri Muratov, one of the winners, about what the award means to him.

And to the growing list of foreign owners of English football teams, add Saudi Arabia.

Its sovereign wealth fund was involved in acquiring Newcastle United.

We ask why autocrats take such an interest in England's beautiful game.

First up, though.

Today in Lebanon, Prime Minister Najib Mikhati announced a national day of mourning.

In Beirut yesterday, gunmen killed at least six people in Lebanon's worst sectarian violence in years.

The shooting came during a protest organized by the Shia Muslim groups, Hezbollah and Amal.

They had gathered to object to the judge who's investigating last year's port explosion,

which killed more than 200 people and shattered much of Beirut's center.

Eyewitnesses said that snipers from nearby buildings had fired into the crowd.

Then there were clashes in the area which straddles a Shia neighborhood and a Christian one. A reminder of the sectarian violence that fueled the country's 15-year civil war.

In response to the shooting, Michel Aoun's president urged calm.

I've made it to the port explosion exposed Lebanon's political rot to a people already struggling through a crippling economic crisis.

Lebanon's currency continues to tank, and energy woes keep its people in the

dark for much of the time. The effort to shed some light on the explosion is only bringing more instability.

As is so often the case in Lebanon, we know the middle of the story, but we don't know the beginning.

Greg Carlstrom is our Middle East correspondent. There are videos that seem to show snipers firing into this crowd of protesters quite

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