由于各种不利条件，在废墟中搜救幸存者和向难民发放食物等工作都进展缓慢，不少难民已经连续两天没吃没喝情绪很差。海地首都太子港的治安情况正在迅速恶化，据报道街头已经发生抢劫和凶杀案件。多个国际组织警告说，若救援物资不能尽快送达灾民手中，可能导致动乱，并且引发第二波疾病和死亡，爆发更广泛的人道灾难。
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The scene an hour's drive western Port-au-Prince apocalyptic, almost every single building on the road I am driving on now is been flattened. Reinforced concrete roots have fallen to the floors below or have jumped into the ground at crazy angles. The destruction here is even more dramatic than the dreadful conditions in the capital. People are fled to the surrounding sugarcane fields or into mangrove swamps or anything to get away from the nightmare of the falling buildings. I see a long line of people queuing up at a single working water tower. Tens of thousands are living in the open in church compounds, school playgrounds and market places. The population here are in profound shock.
Reports coming out of Port-au-Prince say a coward of about a thousand people has been involved in a violent fight over goods in one of the city's centre commercial streets. A photographer for the Roger news agency says a group of men armed with knives, ice picks and hammers fought one another over clothing, toys and any other items they could find and destroyed houses and shops. The internet comes hours after a senior United Nations official Alien Edward warned of the security threat from the delayed and the distribution of aid. President Obama who's enlisted the support of his two predecessors in the White House, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, said Americans still united with the people of Haiti. He said the United States was launching one of its largest ever relief efforts. From Washington, here is Paul Adams.
Putting aside their past differences and presenting a united front, the three presidents all spoke of the immense challenge posed by the earthquake, and of their determination to work together to help Haiti, not just immediately, but over the long term. President Clinton already the UN special envoy for Haiti, called the administration's response so far, truly extraordinary. President Bush visiting the White House for the first time since leaving office, said terrible tragedies brought out the best in the American people.
The US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has already arrived in the stricken country on a US Coast Guard plane which was also carrying emergency food rations as well as other supplies.
World News from the BBC.
The former Prime Minister of Iraq Iyad Allawi is formally unveiled a new nonsectarian alliance that will contest March's parliamentary election with him as leader. From Baghdad, Jim Miur reports.
In addition to liberal secular and nationalist groups, the alliance calling itself the Iraqi Bloc, also includes a number of prominent Sunni leaders, among them, the current vice president, Tariq Hashimi. Standing in the front vote is the new bloc was announced was another well known, Sunni leader,Sanaha Muderlake. It's widely reported when not officially announced that he is among 499 would be candidates disqualified by the accountability and justice commission. It's an independent body charged with rooting out people associated with a former Barthis system.
A six Para meeting in New York to look at where new ways of halting Iran's continuing defiance of United Nations resolutions on its nuclear program has ended with no decisions being made. They are trying to convince Iran to stop its uranium enrichment program even though Iran itself says this is for purely peaceful purposes. The Americans were expected to push for tougher sanctions, but China which had said the time is not right, only sent a low level diplomat to the meeting.
Spain says a number of illegal immigrants reaching the country by sea from Africa dropped by nearly half in 2009 compared with a previously year to just over 7000. The government attributed the fall to improve cooperation with African countries and better policing of Spain's borders. Hundreds of international observers have been deployed to monitor Sunday's presidential election in Ukraine. The European security organization the OICE says it now are 600 in place. 18 candidates are standing. Recent opinion polls in Ukraine has suggested the most popular is Viktor Yanukovych, who lost President Yushchenko in 2004. Mr Yushchenko was also standing again. As the Prime Minister, Yulia Tymoshenko.
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