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Bahrain. she spoke with our foreign correspondent affairs joe dougherty, outside of the white house. >> reporter: we are here with a human rights activists, 23 years old, lives in bahrain but you're here for about a month and a half, right? >> thas right. >> now, the group is marching this way. actually, from the saudi embassy. and now to the white house, what is the message to the president? >> the protesters in bahrain believe that the u.s. is directly composite in the violations taking place in the country. >> composite in what way? >> everyone knows that the gcc countries and bahrain, in p...

>> reporter: even ambulance drivers say that they are becoming target. he was beat up and broke his leg. bahrain's government gave us a packet of documents telling its side of the story, blaming iran for instigating demonstrations and arrest. in one paragraph they accuse activists of doctoring photos, fabricating injuries, and bahrain's foreign minister says security forces are not firing on unarmed civilians. >> the police would not walk into a neighborhood and start shooting people. >> reporter: so they are not shooting into neighborhoods right now? >> no. no. >> reporter: the overall situat...

We see you, it sounded like gunshots, and you were tear gassed and then moments later your crew was detained. what happened? >> we were in a village following boys that were protesting. i don't even know if you would call them protesters. they were standing in the street and yelling "god is great." the security forces fired tear gas. it's a continual problem that is going on in the villages because when people walk out of their homes, they are breathing in tear gas and it's bad for their health. >> what did it smell like and feel like? >> it felt like lemon was shot into my eye and burnt my lu...

With tear gas and bird shot. >> you got into these villages to tell the story in bahrain. it has to be a challenge for journalists, not just cnn and anywhere around the world. to tell the story accurately. >> and journalists are having a very difficult time doing that. we're one of the few crews in the world that is able to get into these villages because the government is assigning government minders to essentially baby sit journalists and only show them the view of bahrain that the government wants the world to be shown. once we have our minders, we were given minders, they would bring us to...

Shown bahrain. >> controlling the message. >> yes. >> amber lyon, thank you. >> thank you. developing right now, an american detained in north korea. who this might be and what happened. we'll get a live report from the state department. that is ahead. also, gloria borger is standing by with news ahead on the 2012 republican race and donald trump is very much alive. back in 70 seconds.