Good morning, welcome to Al Jazeera America, im morgan radford. Relief efforts are picking up nine days after typhoon haiyan struck the philippines. More than 3,600 died. Those who survived are finally getting the help that they need. Food, water and medical supplies have started getting to areas that were completely cut off by the storm. The u. S. Military is now dropping food and water to survivors in the area. But more than 1,000 people are still missing. Some 4 Million People are homeless. For the latest we are going to talk about talk to craig leeson, who is standing by in the philippines. First lets tell you about an attack in afghanistan where more than 2,000 afghan elders will meet in kabul. Theyll vote on the future of u. S. Troops in afghanistan. The u. S. Is trying to hammer out an agreement to keep forces on the ground beyond 2014. That effort was dealt a blow on saturday after suicide bomb attack killed six people. Jane ferguson reports from kabul. It was an attack on the
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African republic conflict. Is this how to stop illegal elephant poaching u. S. Wildlife officials crush 6 tonnes of confiscated ivory. Thousands of people in the philippines are still waiting for aid a week after the islands were struck by typhoon haiyan. President Benigno Aquino has visited volunteers parking relief supplies. They are based in manila. Trucks have been gridlocked. The interior minister said the problem of supplying aid is on the same scale as a wartime invasion. In a situation like this nothing is fast enough. The need is massive. Its immediate. You cannot shove anybody aside, because everybody all at the same time is hungry, have no water, no communication, no power. The challenge here is almost li like. The relief effort is hampered by rumours of misinformation. It was thought one island everyone was killed. We went and discovered they were full of survivors, wondering why help had not arrived. They are the forgotten victims of typhoon haiyan, people in the islands n
Policy. But can parents afford to have more than one baby . The u. N. Says the aid effort is turning a corner in the philippines. Aid groups are warning of major challenges in reaching Remote Island communities. The United Nations distributed food to more than 170,000 people in tacloban. Many bodies and dead animals are polluting water supply, creating perfect conditions for diseases such as tif i had and collera. Craig leeson travels to an island off the northern tip of cebu. Early Morning Light filters on to the deck of the mg gemini 6, it fails to wake the crew. Theyve been up most of the might loading to bring aid to an island off the northern tip of cebu. It was one of a dozen to be desmated by typhoon haiyan. I can only imagine who people have been going through hunger, devastation, fear in their eyes. The cebu based Rapid Response team, a group helping with disaster relief, says 95 was wiped out in the storm all but forgotten until now. Many here have been without food, clean wa
Golden heights and crops depending on aid and farmers in guatemala are ready to leave their livelihoods for good. Translator thinking of migrating for the United States in january and i cannot do nothing and i have to do what is best for my children and grandchildren. A u. S. Drone strike in somalia has targeted elsha bob and its not clear if they survived the attack and there is no known photograph of him in existence and he is 37 years old and was born in somalia. He received a University Education in pakistan and went to afghanistan and believed to train with the taliban and went to the region of somali land hand and has a wife and children and he and three others formed what we now know as elshabob and the u. S. Strike comes as the African Union launched new offense in Southern Somalia and we have an exclusive report from the front line. Reporter on the march against elshabob fighters they are washed with troops as African Unions as troopers and so this is not like a fight ever bef