It is the day of truth in kenya. Millions of people are going to the polls for the First Time Since postelection violence nearly ripped the country apart five years ago. A new constitution and new voting rules preventing the violence from happening again. But it is also causing frustration. The election is complicated. People are voting for a new president , senate, at national assembly. Voting is very slow. I minister rail Prime Minister raila odinga is running for president. I will accept the results. This is going to be there will be no runoff. Meanwhile, deputy Prime MinisterUhuru Kenyatta has cast his vote. He and his running mate have been the will to keep the lyrical piece in kenya is being tested on sunday night at least 17 people were killed in attacks along the coast. In the coastal city of mombasa, gangs wielding machetes were said to have ambushed officers before polling stations opened. The second incident happened in. Ellykalifi it is reported at least four officers were killed. The local police chief in mother bassa in mombasa has tightened security there. Yard long queues in mombasa, in camp in kenya, but little has been done to keep people from coming out in large numbers. Security has been beefed up by sending 400 more policemen to secure the region as people vote for their respective candidates. What we also know is that attacks are only here in mombasa. Here in the neighboring country jkalifi. Ea we are seeing some sophistication of the mrc. While the polls have been open for eight hours in kenya, long lines everywhere. In the top thirdlargest city, we will speak with our correspondent to see how the voting is going there. Plenty more on our website and behindthescenes photos and tweets from our correspondence. Visit our kenya election live link. In other news, the pakistani city of karachi has virtually shut down after a car bomb killed at least 45 people and injured one hundred others. It exploded outside of a shia mosque on sunday. Traders and workers have called for a oneday strike to honor the victims. It is an escalating series of attacks mainly against shia muslims. More now live from karachi. Part of karachi, pakistans largest city and commercial capital, and virtually ground to a halt after a strike has been called. A transport and traders strike in protest of sunday nights deadly bombing. The shia council, the religious body that governs the Shia Community, they are now calling on the government to launch a targeted campaign against those groups responsible for carrying out the attacks against people in their community. This demand, of course, follows a targeted campaign being carried out right now by the government in a neighboring province after the Shia Community in this city faced a series of attacks just this year, in which close to 200 people lost their lives. After days of protests, the government conceded to carrying out this targeted operation in that province. Now here in pakistans largest city, the Shia Community is demanding the same thing. Many questions are being asked about how capable or able the government is to protect these minority groups. Lets return to our main story, and the kenyan elections. We have correspondents across the country on the story. Peter gress tte, the voting stations have been open for eight hours. How has voting gone there, and what has turnout been like . Not white sure about turnout, we need to check with an officer. But it has been very high indeed. Almost approaching the polling station now, been here since 5 00 a. M. , nine hours, and it is incredibly hot out here. There is very little shake him almost no water for the people here. It shows the incredible patience people have shown during these very long queues and it looks as though we might actually see voting finish on time. Earlier in the day when we arrived, i would not have believed that it would have ended on time. So things keep to be things seem to be going well. One of the main issues for some people that you are seeing standing in line . There are several issues that keep coming up. One of them is integrity. One of the candidates, kenyatta and his running mate, have been talking about the integrity of the candidate. Also odingas he is being questioned. People want a leader who has integrity. Ethnic divisions have seen damage involving previous elections, of course. The other thing here that is a big concern is the economy. It is one of the areas, one of the highest areas of unemployment in the country. An area that a lot of people want to see this election work. This area suffered enormously because the collapse in Economic Growth that the country went through, immediately after the postelection violence in 2007 2008. They are recognizing the value of not just the election but strong leadership in the next coming few years to try to revive the economy. The president ial race is extremely tight between ken yatta and odinga. Each claim that they will win of the first round, but that looks highly unlikely, doesnt it . I think that is a very ambitious claim. There are eight candidates in all. The race is so tight that the last polls i think had a couple of decimal points of one percent. If those opinion polls are accurate, it is difficult to see how either can push their poll can push their vote over the 50 mark. This election is very difficult to call. All the political analysts recognize that it is such a complicated election. There are so many variables involved. It is very difficult to pick who is likely to win this. But i really do think it will go to a second round. Heater, thank you very much, a very important election for kenyans. Scientists in the United States say they have taken a step toward a cure for hiv. Experts say they are encouraged by what is being described as the first functional cure of hiv in an infant. There is no certainty that a child born to an hivpositive mother will have the condition, but they are given low level antivirals anyway, as a precaution. Those drugs suppress hiv, in many cases to an undetectable level, that they do not cure the illness because the body has viral reservoirs, cells where the hiv can stay dormant, and as soon as the therapy stops, they spring back to life and cause infection to show up again. What doctors did in the u. S. Was give antivirals to a baby who had passed on hiv, and they gave those drugs within 30 hours of the child being warned. They say that actually stop to the reservoirs from forming. Within 29 days of birth, the hiv level in the childs luckless undetectable. There are be at 18 months, and when the next test was done, hiv could not be found. This is being described as a functional cure because it means standard tests are not find hiv, but ultrasensitive methods may still do so. It is not a sterilizing cure, it means the virus has gone completely, but nevertheless it had is it has excited scientists because he could change the way infants are treated. They stressed in the meantime this is one case, and preventing the transfer from mother to child remains the primary objective. Nine people have died in a freak blizzard in northern japan. Among the dead, a mother and her three children after their car hit a snow bank and they were trapped. The ending of the derailed train the engine of the derailed train could barely be seen. The driver was moving along tracks covered in deep snow. There was a strange noise, and the first of the trains of six carriages jumped the tracks. Rescue workers spent several hours trying to free the passengers and crew. I thought for a second there was a possibility of me spending the night in the train. We were in their own while and quite tired. This was one of the consequences of the severe snowstorms hitting the region. A blizzard killed several people. A family of four died of Carbon Monoxide poisoning after their stranded vehicles exhaustbecame clogged with snow. And a 22yearold woman froze to death in her car after it stalled. The japan Authorities Say dude they do not know whether the snow caused the accident. It is a possibility. However, you have not checked reports from the train system or examined equipment in detail. Or for, we are unable to say for sure what caused the train to derail. It is extremely rare for a train to derail in japan. They have an excellent Safety Record despite their speed, and frequently weather, and natural disasters. This latest blizzard had a wind of over 100 kilometers an hour, and temperatures as low as minus six degrees celsius. This is the worst snow people can remember in years. Still to come, unrest across egypt. The desperate lives of people in egypts smaller towns as protests spread outside major cities. In desperate times, a look at the fight to survive in syria. Hello again. We have been hearing about the Severe Weather that we have been seeing over parts of japan, but if we look at the satellite picture, we can see there is not it has not been actually do bad it has not actually been too bad in the last 12 hours. This area of cloud will give us some snow, more than mostly over the northern parts of punchy there it should stay more or less dried to the south. For the west, different here. Look at beijing. Up at a rather balmy 14 degrees. It should be fine and settled in shanghai and hong kong as well. Temperatures in hong kong not anything to write home about, only 22 degrees, which is 72 in fahrenheit. Mostly in the far south, in sri lanka, it has been very wet recently, but some places reporting over 16 millimeters of rain or a more wet weather still to come as we head through tuesday. In fact, on tuesday, it looks like that wet weather will be spreading north. Some ofhing link tv. Will come back. Kenyans are voting in the first general election since 2007 when widespread violence broke out and made accusations of vote rigging. Scientists in the u. S. Say they have taken a step towards a cure for hiv, achieving the first functional cure of hiv in an infant. But they are warning that so far it is based on one case. At least 45 people have died in a car bombing in southern pakistan. More than 140 others were injured. A bomb exploded outside a shia mosque in karachi on sunday. Pakistan says provincial assemblies will dissolve. Speaking to al jazeera, the foreign minister said a caretaker government will be announced in the coming days. Any democratic dispensation in pakistan is not working, and that is a facet of life that we have to learn to live with. The transition period, into a fully functional democracy. Many institutions in pakistan are in some sort of adjustment, which is natural. In pakistan you had decades of dictatorial regimes followed by democratic order, so to speak. Sometimes it lasted for a year, sometimes a year and a half, sometimes two years. The first time in 66 years, a truly democratic government will be completing its term. The situation in bangladesh remains tense on the second day of a nationwide strike. Three people have been killed in the violence. Schools and businesses across the capital are mostly shut. Police are out in full force. The rise began after an Opposition Leader was sentenced to hang for war crimes. An opposition soldier has been killed in fighting in mali. There have been fatalities since the deployment began in january. The latest killing was on the border with algeria. The greatest losses are being suffered by the chadian army, which is fighting alongside france. Meanwhile, reports on how people there feel about the conflict in mali. The nation that claims it carried out the tasks is in morning. Is in mourning. 26 soldiers were repeated treated to coffins in the country. The troops are the main Ground Troops on the mali wars frontline. Chad is bearing the main brunt of the fighting. In this exclusive al jazeera soldiersdhchadian patrol on a mission to flush out Al Qaeda Linked fighters. The Defense Ministry says these men killed former al qaeda and the former commanders. And totally destroy their main base. Chad has one of the true desert armies. Chad is also one of the poorest countries on earth treated over one third of all children are stunted from malnutrition, and the average citizen does not live past 50. Most chadians do not believe the mali war serves their priority and dice their priorities or interests. The majority of the people do not agree with it. They are very sad. This is mollys business, not chads fight. All we know is that we went to bed when night and woke up the next day to do them telling us that they were sending 2000 to 3000 troops to mollali. Until more funds become available, chad will continue to find itself virtually alone on the front lines. At a ceremony for the martyrs, a visibly saddened president reassure the families. He has been in power for over 20 years, propped up by friends by france, who has three military bases in its former colony. Aching good on those relations may require of chad more sacrifice. May welch, al jazeera, chad. The head of the uns Atomic Agency is calling for iran to requested tehran to allow investigators into a site, and said it would be a sign of goodwill, and irans willingness to engage with the iaea. U. S. Secretary of state has warned there is only a limited amount of time to Reach Agreement over Irans Nuclear program. John kerry was speaking out about his saudi counterpart in 3iron in riyadh. Israeli defense minister l barack says iran is the biggest threat to the middle east. He has been speaking to the aipac conference, run by the largest jewish lobby in the United States. Aipac has been called one of the most powerful lobbying organizations in washington, its prime purpose to back whatever policy israels government may pursue. In last years conference, as president Barack Obama Campaign for reelection, delegates reviewed his republican opponent, mitt romney. But this years gathering comes as obama it is winning plaudits from netanyahu for reinforcing u. S. Security cooperation with israel. It is exemplified by the u. S. Financed iron dome missile defense, which intercepted hamas rockets aimed at israeli cities in the fighting along the gaza strip last november. This year aipacs priority issue is assuring the average 3 billion a year u. S. Military aid package to israel will not be jeopardized as congress carries out acrosstheboard spending cuts. Another top aipac item, legislation that officially recognizes israel as a major strategic ally. That is a designation no one else rate contains maintains with the u. S. , and aipac is pushing a bill that effectively endorses is really military action it deems to be in self defense. That may not be authorization for the u. S. To join in an Israeli Attack on iran, but it would be welcomed by israel as a green light to proceed. Outgoing defense minister ehud barack told the conference all options were on the table, the same phrase obama has used to prevent iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. Without a mentioning mono without mentioning barack my name, he warned we expect all those who say it to mean it. Ladies and gentlemen, we mean it. One issue missing from aipac s action checklist, palestinian israeli peace prospects proved that, too, is in sync with the netanyahu governments current sense of priorities. You only have to look at the israeli election itself that was just conducted where, for all intents and purposes, from my point of view, unfortunately, the Israeli Palestinian conflict was not front and center. Aipac meets three weeks before obamas scheduled trip to israel and the occupied west bank. The palestinians are still bitterly divided in israel is still bent on expanding jewish settlements in the occupied west bank, aipac may see little point in paying attention to the heart of the israeliarab dispute. Tom ackerman, al jazeera, washington. After two years of conflict, the price of cooking oil to petrol is several times what it was before the war. Casey kauffman reports from aleppo, where people have found ingenious ways to survive. Minor conditions before this rebel fighter has been in. It looks like fun, but these children are not here to play. As is a Government Military warehouse, regionally taken over by opposition forces. And what the children want our the use military boots . What the children want our they used military boots left behind. I come every morning with our with my brothers. The situation is difficult. They are one of aleppos worst families. They can make use of just about anything, even if it is old and or now. The government started to attack as soon as it was taken over by the rebels. Just last week, a fighter jet bombed the area, killing all men living in the neighborhood. That is the same neighborhood he walks through to reach his home about two kilometers away. But it is a high prices of goods in the conflict that is troubling his family. Cooking gas now costs 10 times what it did before the war, and even wood is too expensive. So his mother uses old boots instead. We have not had any electricity for three months, no cooking gas for one year. We cant afford it. It now costs 3000 syrian lira. We wanted but we cannot have it. His mother lost her i after a shell exploded nearby. But she is upset because she feels her family has really hit rock bottom. My heart cries when i see my son in this situation. My heart is bleeding. I would rather die so i do not have to see our situation. Thanking the odor here is strong, but it is her best option for feeding her children. People everywhere tend to get by despite the odds, but as long as the war drags on, cooking gas will mean will remain a luxury this family cannot afford. Five people have been killed and nearly 600 injured in fighting the twin police and protesters in the egyptian city of port said. Among the victims were two policeman who died from gunshot wounds. The testers were rallying in support of prisoners who took part in a wry it. In a wry at dosha in a riot. Those sort of street protests have almost good, gay daily occurrence in the past two years, but anger is now spilling from the big urban centers to smaller towns and villages. Religions are accused of neglecting the party. My mode has been knocking on the door for a job since he graduated with a business diploma 14 years ago. He tried to set himself on fire in front of the local government building two months ago. Staff turned him away suggesting he shined shoes or work at a charity. When you stay for three days without food, why would you want to live anymore . Even stray dogs find food on the streets while ive start. I do