Covering in europe. Reeling from a painful political split, berlusconi reaches out to friends. And San Francisco goes gotham for a good cause. First to the philippines where the aid situation appears to be improving. The United Nations says the effort is being scaled up, but its getting to remote areas that is still a big challenge. The Philippines Air force began air dropping some food packs to those remote areas. People had been swarming the helicopters, and pilots began to land on outskirts of villages before taking off again. And now tacloban one of the worsthit areas. Some still trying to leave, some cueing for days for a flight out. Others say theyre not able to get help, and others say they dont feel safe in the city. Aid is being organized in tacloban, but its not getting to everyone. Some people say theyre missing out, not because aid cant reach them but because local officials are playing favorites. Reporter work has been nonstop for days at this National Government warehouse
Nine days after typhoon haiyan left parts of the country in ruins. Tens of thousands of victims are starting to get medical care as food and water is being dropped to isolated areas. Lets bring in craig leeson who is in tacloban. Is International Aid finally getting to the hard to reach places. It is starting to trickle through. We are seeing a lot of aid come in here at the air force base in cebu. Its piling in and being distributed to areas in need particularly tacloban in leyte, the epicentre of this disaster. But the challenge has been getting it from tacloban out into the the regions from there that are hard to reach. Many of them are still cut off. There is only power to four of the 30 provinces hit by the typhoon. There are difficulties that aid workers are still seeing that were there from day one. We travelled up to bantayan yesterday with a cargo shift, one of the first aid relief and witnessed the hunger of people as they crowded around the trucks of rice, trying to get food
Haiyan ravaged that country. Food and medicine has finally arrived in the most devastated communities. Humanitarian groups face huge challenges getting people to remote areas. The u. S. Military arrested 3,000 people. Its delivered 118 tons of food, water, and other supplies to hardest hit and most isolated towns. International humanitarian groups on the ground are giving medical help to survivors, and for more on this we turn to al jazeera. Reporter Early Morning light filters on the deck o and failso wake the sleeping crew. Theyve been up most of the night bringing relief aid off the north tip of cebu. The sleepy fishing and farming island was one of a dozen in this area to be devastated by typhoon haiyan. I can only imagine what team have been experiencing over the past few days and all the suffering, hunger, you haddestyouutmostdevastation and. Reporter the Civil Volunteer group that works with the local governments say that 95 of the area was wiped out in the storm all forgotten u
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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