(ROUGH CUT ONLY - NO REPORTER NARRATION)<br/> <br />Opposition youths skirmished with police after 10,000 Bahrainis rallied peacefully for democracy on Friday (April 19), two days before a Formula One car race that puts the Gulf Arab kingdom in the global spotlight.<br/> <br />An authorised rally attended by men, women and children west of the capital Manama was orderly but as it broke up, just a few hundred yards (metres) away, dozens of young men skirmished with security forces firing tear gas.<br/> <br />The youths, many wearing black and white masks, burned boxes, a rubbish bin and tyres in the road. The tear gas sent the young men scattering.<br/> <br />Many in the Shi'ite Muslim-majority state accuse the Sunni-led government of trying to use Sunday's race to paper over human rights abuses and disguise political problems they say still plague the country, a close U.S. ally.<br/> <br />The opposition hopes the spotlight on the kingdom's biggest sporting event will help their struggle gain wider attention.
