stories from across the uk, head to the bbc news website. you are watching bbc news. the united states says it would support the deployment of a multinational police force to haiti. the caribbean country is in the grips of a criminal gangs crisis. the state department says it could take the form of spearheading a push for the un security council to authorise the mission. kenya has offered to lead the mission and send 1,000 police officers to haiti to help combat an epidemic of lawlessness and kidnappings. the state department also says its aware of the kidnapping of a us nurse and her child in the country. for more, i spoke with former us ambassador to haiti, pamela white. ambassador, great to have you on bbc news. i want to start with the american nurse and her child who have been kidnapped in haiti. we know that gangs are carrying out kidnappings there with increasing frequency. what can the state department do in this specific case to try to secure their release? yes. well, first of
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pamela white, says sending international support could be difficult, but necessary. my friends in haiti are so desperate that they are like, let s try it, let s try it, we wanted canada, we wanted the us, we wanted a coalition, maybe the un troops, but nothing is happening so maybe some of the really well trained, best trained kenyan police force, maybe they can come over and really get in with the haitian national police who at one time functioned very well. the problem is also with the national police is that their numbers are going down, not up, so anyone that can escape to the united states under the biden immigrant visa sponsorship programme is going to get out of there. i mean, it is so dangerous. no one is free and no one can say, oh, i am not going to get kidnapped because i am xyz, no,
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