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Sport, politics and racism

Reality Check: Bahrain protests, social media may break French election embargo, Audimax protests, passanger data agreement, sport and racism.

Pro-democracy protests are intensifying in Bahrain ahead of the planned Formula 1 race there on Sunday.

Some people say the race should be cancelled, others that sport and politics should not be mixed.

John Cummins asked politics and sport expert Jonathan Grix from the University of Birmingham, whether, amid the violence and controversy, the race should be going ahead at all.

French elections and the social networks

There are concerns in France that Twitter, Facebook and other social networks might break the embargo on the announcement of the results of Sunday's presidential election, with the possibility that results may be known before some polls have closed.

Hugh Schofield reports from Paris on how the authorities are threatening to crack down on embargo breakers with legal action and heavy fines.

Audimax protests

Irmi Wutscher reports on the protests at Vienna's Audimax lecture theatre.

Students occupied the university building for several hours protesting against fees and planned changes in development studies.

Passanger data debate

The new passanger data agreement between Europe and the USA is coming under heavy criticism from within the European Parliament.

Dutch Liberal-Democrat MEP, Sophie in 't Veld, told Chris Cummins why she is opposed to the deal.

Racism in sport

Anti racisim activist, Joya Jefferson Nuri, explains why she thinks sport is key to combatting racism, but why sport has its own racism issues to conquer along the way.

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