A Bahrain Coffee Shop and Protester Meeting House

Anchor Marco Werman talks to journalist Reem Khalifa in Manama, Bahrain, about a coffee shop that serves as a meeting house for demonstrators, and has been engulfed by tear gas from nearby protests many times.

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