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captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions lehrer: good evening, i m jim lehrer. president obama accepted the nobel peace prize today. brown: and i m jeffrey brown. on the newshour tonight, a report on the ceremony and speech where the president said, wars are sometimes necessary and justified. clear eyed, we can understand that there will be war and still strive for peace . we can do that, for that is the story of human progress. lehrer: we ll get reaction and perspective from presidential historian michael beschloss, the reverend james forbes and editor joseph bottum. brown: then, the arrests of five american muslims in pakistan: we look at who they are and how they were captured. lehrer: the top u.s. military commander in afghanistan talked about security and fighting corruption, we have excerpts from his conversation with our pbs colleague, charlie rose. brown: new claims for unemployment benefits rose faster than expected after thanksgiving. t ....