Pro-government and anti-government militias squared off in gun battles around Lebanon's capital Beirut today. The violence occurred after the country's largest union called for a demonstration today over a wage hike they contend wasn't high enough for the country's poor. Lebanon is experiencing its worst internal crisis since the end of the 1975-1990 civil war, and as FSRN's Jackson Allers reports from Beirut, the situation is predicted to worsen between the pro-government and anti-government camps as the two sides vie for power in a country that has been without a president half a year.

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