:00:11. > :00:14.Hello, this is BBC World News. The top story: millions of Kenyans are
:00:14. > :00:18.casting their vote in the first elections since the country
:00:18. > :00:25.exploded in violence five years ago. Hailed as a breakthrough, doctors
:00:25. > :00:28.think they have cured a baby girl born with HIV.
:00:28. > :00:33.The search for the next Pope, cardinals are in Rome to find a
:00:33. > :00:38.successor to Benedict. And Queen Elizabeth Spencer second
:00:38. > :00:48.day in hospital. It is her first stay for 10 years -- spends a
:00:48. > :00:57.
:00:57. > :01:06.Hello. Millions of Kenyans have been queuing since before dawn to
:01:06. > :01:08.cast their votes in the General Election. It's the first poll under
:01:08. > :01:11.a new constitution, intended to create a fairer system of
:01:11. > :01:14.government. Security is tight, and at least 12 people are reported
:01:14. > :01:19.dead in two separate attacks near the coastal city of Mombasa. Voting
:01:19. > :01:22.this morning has been peaceful. The BBC's Gabriel Gatehouse sent this
:01:22. > :01:25.report from a polling station in one of Nairobi's slums - the scene
:01:25. > :01:28.of much of the violence in the last elections five years ago.
:01:28. > :01:31.I have covered a number of elections in my time but I have
:01:31. > :01:36.never seen crowds quite like this. These people have been standing
:01:36. > :01:39.here since long before polling stations opened. It was still dark.
:01:39. > :01:42.In other places, where there are single lines, I have seen queues
:01:42. > :01:46.that stretch for a kilometre or more. And despite the nervousness
:01:46. > :01:52.in the run-up to the poll at the end of campaigning, I would say the
:01:52. > :01:57.atmosphere amongst the crowd is pretty upbeat. Oh, I came at 7am.
:01:57. > :02:01.7am? That makes it three-and-a-half hours, maybe four. About four hours.
:02:01. > :02:11.What is the mood in the queue? How are people feeling? People are
:02:11. > :02:14.motivated, we want to vote. We want to make sure that we also vote and
:02:14. > :02:24.we want to be involved in the new leadership. This is a very calm
:02:24. > :02:25.
:02:26. > :02:30.election. I think everybody is willing to support one another.
:02:30. > :02:33.are voting in peace. We are waiting up to the evening so we can see how.
:02:33. > :02:37.We have had no hope for the last five years. We hope for the best.
:02:37. > :02:40.You hope for the best? Yes. This is the first time that Kenyans are
:02:40. > :02:43.voting under their new constitution, which came in in 2010, and it has
:02:43. > :02:46.made it quite a complicated process, because these voters are being
:02:46. > :02:49.asked to cast no fewer than six different ballots. We can see the
:02:49. > :02:51.ballot boxes over there, they are voting for local representatives,
:02:51. > :02:56.women representatives, governors, MPs, as well as, of course, the
:02:57. > :03:01.President. Those votes go into this white box here. This is, of course,
:03:01. > :03:04.a crucial race. There are eight candidates standing, but really it
:03:04. > :03:09.is a two-horse race between the Prime Minister Raila Odinga and
:03:09. > :03:12.Uhuru Kenyatta. Mr Kenyatta is the son of Kenya's founding father,
:03:12. > :03:15.John Kenyatta, and he has been indicted by the International
:03:15. > :03:20.Criminal Court in the Hague over his alleged role in the violence
:03:20. > :03:24.last time around. He denies the charges and says he will co-operate
:03:24. > :03:28.with the court, but the real key for this vote will come after the
:03:28. > :03:32.ballots have been cast and when the results are announced. The real
:03:32. > :03:42.test will be whether all sides respect the outcome or at least to
:03:42. > :03:43.
:03:43. > :03:49.take their grievances to the court, rather than to the streets.
:03:49. > :03:54.Sophie Ikenye is in Nairobi. We got a sense there are people's patients,
:03:54. > :03:58.ready to wait. I saw one tweet from a voter that said they had waited
:03:58. > :04:05.for three hours, verification was three minutes and voting was one
:04:05. > :04:11.minute. If it carries on like that, most people will be pretty happy.
:04:11. > :04:18.Most people will be pretty happy, David, but we have been speaking to
:04:18. > :04:20.some of the people who are queuing and they say they have been there
:04:20. > :04:26.for over five hours and are still waiting to cast their ballot. You
:04:26. > :04:31.must understand, this process is going to take a little bit of time,
:04:32. > :04:37.because Kenyans are voting in six officials to government offices,
:04:37. > :04:40.including the President, a new president. And that is what
:04:40. > :04:44.electoral commission has been intimating, that the voting process
:04:44. > :04:50.might go on until midnight before we start seeing at least the first
:04:50. > :04:54.signs of a result coming in. A huge number of police officers out and
:04:54. > :04:58.about in the country, trying to keep order. A lot of international
:04:58. > :05:08.observers, as well as election monitors on the ground. I guess
:05:08. > :05:15.that will have an impact? That will definitely have an impact, because
:05:15. > :05:19.we have never seen such a number of observers. We are talking about
:05:19. > :05:23.22,600 of them in the country, come in all the way from the African
:05:23. > :05:27.Union, the Commonwealth, the European Union, so a lot of
:05:28. > :05:33.observers. Security has been put into place. 99,000 security
:05:33. > :05:39.officers across the country. Hot spots, as the police commissioner
:05:39. > :05:44.said earlier, have been taken care of. Security has been put in place.
:05:44. > :05:49.So Kenyans also hoping we will not see a repeat of what we saw after
:05:49. > :05:53.the last elections, when it was disputed. I must add that the
:05:53. > :05:56.independent electoral boundaries Commission has been a very strict,
:05:56. > :06:00.that they are going to follow the rules and they are asking Kenyans
:06:00. > :06:04.to follow the rules that they published and once you have voted,
:06:04. > :06:08.get out of the polling station, go home and wait for the results. The
:06:08. > :06:12.police have also said that if they see any kind of trouble, they will
:06:12. > :06:18.be dealing with it as best as they can. So some pretty clear messages.
:06:18. > :06:28.Sophie, thank you very much. Scientists in the US believe they
:06:28. > :06:28.
:06:28. > :06:31.may have cured a baby girl who was born with HIV.
:06:31. > :06:36.The to roll from Mississippi received a cocktail of drugs when
:06:36. > :06:41.she was born and has been off medication for around a year -- the
:06:41. > :06:43.two-year-old. Researchers say it's a potentially ground-breaking case
:06:43. > :06:49.which could pave the way for eradicating HIV in its youngest
:06:49. > :06:54.victims. More than three million children are living with HIV. Every
:06:54. > :06:57.day, more than 900 children become newly infected with the virus. So
:06:57. > :07:01.far, of those who've gone on to develop AIDS around, 25 million
:07:01. > :07:04.people, have died. I spoke to Jane Anderson earlier. It is very
:07:05. > :07:08.exciting for this family and for this child, but I want to be clear
:07:08. > :07:12.and manage expectations, this is not the end of Aids, this is not
:07:12. > :07:18.the end of HIV. This is the beginning of a very interesting
:07:18. > :07:22.scientific dialogue. It seems almost an oddity, as well. One out
:07:22. > :07:25.of the blue, one individual case that we are hearing about. We are
:07:25. > :07:30.hearing about it because there is a large conference in Atlanta at the
:07:30. > :07:33.moment and the main data about this will be presented later today, so
:07:33. > :07:37.we will know more, but it appears that this particular child was
:07:37. > :07:41.found to have HIV at birth and was treated intensively and, for
:07:41. > :07:46.various reasons, they stopped treatment and they found that the
:07:46. > :07:51.HIV, although still present in the body, appears not to be active. And
:07:51. > :07:54.that is a very exciting moment, but the HIV has not gone away. Is the
:07:54. > :07:59.key to this case the method of treatment or the fact that they
:07:59. > :08:02.have got it right at virtually the point of birth, effectively?
:08:02. > :08:06.think the fact that it is so early is important but I think the main
:08:06. > :08:11.issue is that this is showing us a proof of principle, a proof of
:08:11. > :08:14.concept. At the moment, HIV is still rife throughout the world and
:08:14. > :08:18.I think the most important message that we really have to get across
:08:18. > :08:24.is that mother to child transmission of HIV is entirely
:08:24. > :08:29.preventable, and so we should not have babies being born with HIV and
:08:29. > :08:31.the -- need these interventions. If women living with HIV across the
:08:31. > :08:35.world, particularly in Porritt settings, have proper care and
:08:35. > :08:39.management, then babies born with HIV will be a thing of the past.
:08:39. > :08:43.Nonetheless, in terms of this treatment, I suppose the other
:08:43. > :08:49.messages for all of those people who have HIV and are not newborn
:08:49. > :08:53.and Friends, this is not an answer -- newborn infants? Again, all of
:08:53. > :08:56.these steps take us down a scientific path and science is
:08:56. > :09:00.quite a slow-moving creature and we need to move in incremental steps,
:09:00. > :09:04.so we have the Berlin patient, the man who had a bone marrow
:09:04. > :09:09.transplant and after that, we found his HIV was also quiet. So there
:09:09. > :09:13.have been two proofs of concept which are extremely exciting, but
:09:13. > :09:16.it is a very long journey to take proof of concept through to
:09:16. > :09:20.something that is going to be universally applicable. Professor
:09:20. > :09:26.Jane Anderson, talking to me and are.
:09:26. > :09:31.If British troops murder up to 20 Iraqis captured in the war in 2004?
:09:31. > :09:35.A public inquiry is opening today into one of them are serious
:09:35. > :09:38.allegations of the war a decade ago. It is claimed the men may not have
:09:38. > :09:43.been killed in battle but after they were captured in southern Iraq.
:09:43. > :09:47.The Ministry of Defence insists the claims are unproven but has
:09:47. > :09:50.promised full co-operation. Almost 10 years since British
:09:50. > :09:55.troops invaded southern Iraq, there have been mounting allegations of
:09:55. > :09:59.abuse. This is the second inquiry to take place into claims made by
:09:59. > :10:03.Iraqis of unlawful behaviour. It has been set up to uncover exactly
:10:03. > :10:07.what happened after a fierce firefight, which took place here,
:10:07. > :10:11.after Iraqi militiamen ambushed a British patrol. What is not in
:10:11. > :10:15.dispute is that the bodies of 20 Iraqis were handed over by British
:10:15. > :10:19.soldiers. The army says all of them died on the battlefield, but the
:10:19. > :10:24.Iraqis believe that some were killed after capture, including
:10:24. > :10:27.Hamdi Al-Sweady, who have the inquiry is named after. They are
:10:27. > :10:32.the most serious allegations against the British Army for a long
:10:32. > :10:37.time, and certainly, the clients in Iraq are desperate to find out what
:10:37. > :10:42.happened to their family members on that day. Detainee is captured at
:10:42. > :10:46.the time went on to say they would be struck -- mistreated in custody.
:10:46. > :10:49.Complaints were made to the Red Cross. The MoD's failure to
:10:49. > :10:53.disclose this to the courts for stick to concede to this costly and
:10:53. > :10:58.complex inquiry. It has been described as unprecedented, because
:10:58. > :11:02.the events in question are still so hotly-contested. The challenge for
:11:02. > :11:05.this inquiry, and it is quite an unusual challenge for a public
:11:05. > :11:13.inquiry and a difficult one, is for the chairman to decide what did
:11:13. > :11:15.happen. The inquiry is expected to last for around a year.
:11:15. > :11:20.Roman Catholic cardinals have begun meeting in Rome ahead of the
:11:20. > :11:22.conclave which will elect a new Pope.
:11:22. > :11:25.But as the church's most senior figures arrived, attention was also
:11:25. > :11:32.on the news that Cardinal Keith O'Brien is expected to face a
:11:32. > :11:38.Vatican inquiry. He has stepped down and admitted on Sunday that
:11:38. > :11:44.his sexual conduct had fallen below the standards expected of a priest.
:11:44. > :11:49.Alan Johnston is watching it all in Rome. Given the latest date went
:11:49. > :11:53.there from Keith O'Brien -- statements, there is so much more
:11:53. > :12:01.to consider in this conclave, in this free conclave discussion than
:12:01. > :12:05.the name coming out of a hat. -- pre-conclave. That is right, after
:12:05. > :12:09.they drama of the exit of Pope Benedict, we get the second act. As
:12:09. > :12:13.I speak, the cardinals are in what will be closed-door preliminary
:12:13. > :12:18.meetings at which they discuss all of the problems that the Catholic
:12:18. > :12:24.Church faces. And the starkest reminder of one of the most serious
:12:24. > :12:28.problems before the Church coming overnight, in this admission from
:12:28. > :12:33.Cardinal Keith O'Brien of Scotland that the allegations against him
:12:33. > :12:37.were, it seems, true, and he had, in his words, for the short and his
:12:37. > :12:42.sexual behaviour had not been what was required of a man of his status
:12:42. > :12:47.-- fallen short. Of course, that will be playing very heavily in the
:12:47. > :12:52.minds of the Cardinals. One of the Italian papers, capturing a bit of
:12:52. > :12:56.the mood, saying that the Keith O'Brien affair held up a mirror to
:12:56. > :13:00.the cardinals and that the cardinals and the church had a
:13:00. > :13:05.choice, it could either clean up the affairs surrounding the sexual
:13:05. > :13:09.scandals or it could continue trying to cover them up. They have
:13:10. > :13:15.got a big decision to take, obviously, over the next few weeks.
:13:15. > :13:20.Does the now retired Pope Benedict had any influence? Well, of course,
:13:20. > :13:25.he has had huge influence already. The majority of the cardinals in
:13:25. > :13:30.the college were actually chosen by him. You can have no doubt that
:13:30. > :13:35.they were men of a similar Conservative, for the most part,
:13:35. > :13:38.cast of mind, and they are the figures who will gather, we expect,
:13:38. > :13:43.next week some time in the Sistine Chapel and cast their ballots for
:13:43. > :13:50.the new man. We expect them to see more in the way of continuity than
:13:50. > :13:58.change. As one of seven here has put it, the singer may change, but
:13:58. > :14:04.the source -- the song is likely to remain the same. Do you read
:14:04. > :14:07.anything into that as to how long the process might last? At this
:14:07. > :14:11.point, we cannot even tell you when the conclave that is gathering will
:14:11. > :14:15.begin. We are hoping we will hear in the next few days a date, it may
:14:15. > :14:19.be a week today but it is speculation. The last hope was
:14:19. > :14:23.elected within 24 hours, but there are cardinals that are saying it
:14:23. > :14:29.may take longer. There are just no clear front-runners and it may take
:14:29. > :14:39.a little longer this time to arrive at a figure who they believe is the
:14:39. > :14:44.
:14:44. > :14:54.best person to lead the Church into Coming up, conservationists calling
:14:54. > :14:55.
:14:55. > :14:59.for more action amid signs that Troops and tanks have been sent
:14:59. > :15:04.into a slum in the Brazilian capital, Rio, part of a clean-up
:15:04. > :15:09.operation ahead of the FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Olympics. 17 tanks,
:15:09. > :15:15.more than 1000 police, deployed to a shanty town notorious for drug
:15:15. > :15:19.violence. It looks like they are heading to a
:15:19. > :15:25.war-zone. But, in fact, these tanks are rolling into a neighbourhood
:15:25. > :15:30.near Rio's airport, trying to wrest it from the control of drug gangs.
:15:30. > :15:37.Some 20,000 people live here. But this slum has long been a no-go
:15:37. > :15:41.area for the security forces and outsiders. Police will die, this
:15:41. > :15:48.graffiti says. But the soldiers do not encounter any resistance and
:15:48. > :15:51.start seizing drugs and weapons. The TRANSLATION: The importance of
:15:51. > :15:55.this action today is to boost the confidence of the population, which
:15:55. > :16:00.has been lost over the years because of crime, the presence of
:16:00. > :16:06.drugs and arms in this area. Today, we are doing more than pacifying a
:16:06. > :16:09.neighbourhood. We are rescuing the people. Those that live here look
:16:09. > :16:12.on. After years of living under the reign of drug gangs, they are too
:16:12. > :16:19.intimidated to say whether they think things will change for the
:16:19. > :16:26.better. TRANSLATION: I believe they will. But it is very difficult to
:16:26. > :16:30.speak. People that live in the slums cannot say anything.
:16:30. > :16:34.flags of Brazil and Rio are raised to show that this favela is now
:16:34. > :16:37.back under the control of the state. A community police unit will stay
:16:37. > :16:43.here to protect the people and ensure that there are basic
:16:43. > :16:47.services like health centres and a formal electricity supply. So far,
:16:47. > :16:52.30 other favelas have been pacified under the Government programme. But
:16:52. > :16:55.critics say that while this might make parts of the City say fair, it
:16:55. > :17:05.is not tackling the underlying problems and that the criminals and
:17:05. > :17:08.the violence will just surfaced in Hundreds of Venezuelan students and
:17:08. > :17:12.opposition members have taken to the streets of Caracas in a protest
:17:12. > :17:16.demanding full details about President Hugo Chavez's health. He
:17:16. > :17:20.returned to Venezuela last month after being treated for cancer in
:17:20. > :17:30.Cuba. He has not appeared since and officials say he has been governing
:17:30. > :17:34.
:17:34. > :17:38.from his hospital bed, despite This is BBC World News. Voting in
:17:38. > :17:43.Kenya is largely passing off peacefully. There have been reports
:17:43. > :17:46.of sporadic violence. Roman Catholic Cardinal from around the
:17:46. > :17:51.world have started a week of closed-door meetings in Rome before
:17:51. > :17:55.choosing a successor to Pope Benedict.
:17:55. > :17:58.Schools and businesses have closed and the Pakistani city of Karachi
:17:58. > :18:03.following the deaths of at least 45 people in a powerful bomb blast in
:18:03. > :18:06.a mainly Shia Muslim area. Dozens of others were wounded in the
:18:06. > :18:10.explosion on Sunday night. No group has yet admitted carrying out the
:18:10. > :18:15.attack. The strike has been called across Sindh province in mourning
:18:15. > :18:17.for those that died. 94 people have gone on mass trial
:18:17. > :18:22.in the United Arab Emirates, accused of plotting to overthrow
:18:22. > :18:26.the Government. The suspects, including 12 women, are said to be
:18:26. > :18:30.members of an Islamist organisation. Many of them are doctors, lawyers
:18:30. > :18:35.and academics. If convicted, they will face up to 15 years in jail
:18:35. > :18:41.with no right of appeal. With me is the BBC's security correspondent
:18:41. > :18:44.Frank Gardner. Tell us a bit more about this trial. Sure, these 94
:18:45. > :18:48.are all citizens of the United Arab Emirates. They were rounded up last
:18:48. > :18:55.year and they include doctors, lawyers, judges, human rights
:18:55. > :19:00.activists. Also, their relatives in some cases. Their defence lawyers
:19:00. > :19:03.were only given the documents in the last few days, which didn't
:19:03. > :19:07.rights groups say is simply not giving them enough time to prepare
:19:07. > :19:12.for this very crucial mass trial. 94 people went on trial today.
:19:12. > :19:17.Their relatives were bussed in, but the international observers, of
:19:17. > :19:21.which Tehran about 200, were banned from attending. -- of which there
:19:21. > :19:25.are about 200. Many people would say there is no chance of a fair
:19:25. > :19:29.trial, why are they going ahead with it at all? This is something
:19:29. > :19:35.of a litmus test for a country that is trying to be very much a 21st
:19:35. > :19:38.century nation. You have been to Dubai and you have seen what a
:19:38. > :19:42.progressively modern place it is on the surface. It is about saying if
:19:42. > :19:46.they can really balance that with human rights and democracy. Critics
:19:46. > :19:49.say it is a backwards step, they have over-reacted. The supporters
:19:49. > :19:53.of the Government say that these people are totally unrepresentative
:19:53. > :19:57.of the population, that they were trying to forge links with the
:19:57. > :20:01.Muslim Brotherhood and set up a secret cell, that they were looking
:20:01. > :20:05.to seize power. Human rights groups, including human Rights Watch, say
:20:05. > :20:09.there is no evidence of that. Others have said to me that,
:20:09. > :20:14.actually, the trial is very much based on false confessions,
:20:14. > :20:20.confessions extracted under duress. It is awkward, in a way, for John
:20:20. > :20:25.Kerry? New US Secretary of State, going into the UAV next week?
:20:25. > :20:30.think he will be wishing he had chosen a less controversial time to
:20:30. > :20:35.be there. It's one of his first trips as the Secretary of State and
:20:35. > :20:40.people like human Rights Watch are urging him to raise this issue with
:20:40. > :20:45.their rulers. We had a similar situation in November, when I was
:20:45. > :20:49.covering David Cameron's trip to the Emirates. At the time, there
:20:49. > :20:55.was this issue bubbling to the surface. How do Western governments
:20:55. > :20:58.balance their desire to be very close to these countries, forging
:20:58. > :21:02.major defence partnerships, not just about holding arms but
:21:02. > :21:07.operating, holding back Iran, while at the same time promoting
:21:07. > :21:14.democracy? In terms of public perception, I think the authorities
:21:14. > :21:17.have scored an own goal by barring international observers like
:21:17. > :21:25.Amnesty International. It gives the impression they have something to
:21:25. > :21:29.hide. We are very picture-light on the story, as we say in television
:21:29. > :21:33.terms. But we will make sure we have a good look at it.
:21:33. > :21:37.Nine people have died in blizzards on a northern Japanese island. A
:21:37. > :21:41.family of four died in their car, completely engulfed in snow. People
:21:41. > :21:47.say the blizzard is the worst they can remember. Zero visibility in
:21:47. > :21:50.places, winds of more than 130 kilometres per hour.
:21:50. > :21:54.The trial of eight South African policemen accused of murdering a
:21:54. > :21:57.taxi driver has been postponed until Friday. The officers were
:21:57. > :22:00.filmed handcuffing a suspect to the back of a police vehicle and
:22:00. > :22:05.dragging him along the street. It is an incident that has been
:22:05. > :22:09.condemned by South Africa's President, Jacob Zuma, and the
:22:09. > :22:12.Democratic Alliance has called for a judicial inquiry into police
:22:12. > :22:16.brutality. Despite decades of campaigning by
:22:16. > :22:20.conservation groups, the rate of slaughter of endangered animals is
:22:20. > :22:25.actually accelerating. Elephants and rhinos are romanced those most
:22:25. > :22:31.frequently killed. Their tusks and horns can be sold on. Tackling the
:22:31. > :22:35.illegal trade has been the focus of talks among 200 countries are
:22:35. > :22:44.meeting in Thailand. I should tell you that some scenes in this report
:22:44. > :22:49.may be upsetting. Behind the scenes that Bangkok
:22:49. > :22:53.airport, the terminal is a hive of activity. For many years, this vast
:22:53. > :22:56.hall was notorious as an easy what for smuggling. For drugs and
:22:56. > :23:03.something that has become almost as valuable, the body parts of
:23:03. > :23:11.endangered animals. Customs officers show off one of the most
:23:11. > :23:14.recent calls. This ivory from Kenya was intercepted on its way to China.
:23:14. > :23:21.The authorities say seizures like this prove how they are now
:23:21. > :23:26.clamping down on this gruesome and illegal trade. This is just part of
:23:26. > :23:30.one load. But it involved the slaughterer of 79 elephants. Demand
:23:30. > :23:36.for ivory is really from China, where it is seen as bringing good
:23:36. > :23:43.fortune. Prices just keep going up. This one piece weighs just over
:23:43. > :23:49.three kilograms and can be sold here for about �4,000, about $6,000.
:23:49. > :23:53.It can be sold for double or treble that in China. Prices are now so
:23:53. > :23:57.high that the poachers are not just cutting the tusks of, they are
:23:57. > :24:01.gouging them out to get the root of the task as well. Ivory has just
:24:01. > :24:05.become so valuable. The trade begins with a long, dark trail of
:24:05. > :24:10.blood in the African bush. The scale of the slaughter is now
:24:10. > :24:14.alarming. 25,000 elephants killed in 2011, almost certainly more last
:24:14. > :24:21.year. Because organised crime is involved, it will take a
:24:21. > :24:25.sophisticated effort to beat it. That is why this new specialist
:24:25. > :24:30.laboratory has opened in Bangkok. It is dedicated to wildlife
:24:30. > :24:33.forensics. It is one of I handful of laboratories around the world
:24:33. > :24:38.hunting for clues about crimes involving endangered species.
:24:38. > :24:47.Samples are brought in and DNA is extracted. But it is a struggle
:24:47. > :24:52.because the gangs have friends in high places. TRANSLATION: We know
:24:52. > :24:58.that the people behind the trade are mostly influential and powerful,
:24:58. > :25:02.including politicians. We do what we can. While we were filming, a
:25:02. > :25:06.load of ivory was intercepted in southern Thailand. The man caught
:25:06. > :25:12.driving it was a police officer. Campaigners say the trade will
:25:12. > :25:16.never be stopped unless the kingpins running at ad court.
:25:16. > :25:22.poachers get arrested and convicted. You might get the odd middle man
:25:22. > :25:25.arrested and convicted. But the guys that Mastermind the efforts,
:25:25. > :25:31.the guys that invest in the operations to acquire large amounts
:25:31. > :25:36.of ivory, they have never been intercepted. Rhino horn, hidden
:25:36. > :25:42.inside a toy hippo, caught at Bangkok airport. 40 years ago,
:25:42. > :25:46.governments agreed to fight this trade with a convention. The latest
:25:46. > :25:50.talks are under way in Thailand now. As more cargo arrives, cases are
:25:50. > :25:54.run through an X-ray machine. The technology helps. There are some
:25:54. > :26:04.successes. But there will have to be far more political will to stop
:26:04. > :26:05.
:26:05. > :26:07.Time to remind you of our main news. Kenyans are voting in an election
:26:07. > :26:11.which observers described as the most important in the country's
:26:11. > :26:14.history. It is the first General Election and the Kenya's new
:26:14. > :26:19.constitution, designed to prevent a repeat of tribal violence nearly
:26:19. > :26:22.five years ago in which more than 1000 people died. 12 people have
:26:22. > :26:24.died in separate incidents around the coastal city of Mombasa. But
:26:24. > :26:30.there have been no reports of violence at polling stations
:26:30. > :26:33.themselves. The current prime minister and one of the key
:26:33. > :26:37.presidential candidates has cast his vote. He said after that, I
:26:37. > :26:42.will accept the results and congratulate the winner. He also
:26:42. > :26:48.added, this will be a first round. There will be no extra time or run-
:26:48. > :26:52.off, contrary to what other people have been predicting. We will keep