US soldiers of the 82nd Airborne division walk in the street from the Presidential Palace to the hospital
Haitian orphans, whose orphanage was destroyed by last week's earthquake, arrive at Pittsburgh Airport
Members of the Spanish rescue forces head for a possible rescue of a person believed to be alive under the debris in Port-au-Prince
Haitians queue to receive portions from U.S. forces at a food distribution zone in Port-au-Prince
A U.S. soldier holds up a girl at a food distribution zone in Port-au-Prince
Haitians line the banks of the main wharf hoping to get a ride in any one of many small boats for hire. With the city left in ruins after last week's deadly earthquake, many of the displaced people are leaving town
A Haitian policeman aims into a crowd during looting in Port-au-Prince
A policeman gestures during looting in Port-au-Prince. The U.N. Security Council has approved extra troops and police officers to beef up security in Haiti
Haitians carry a coffin by the heavily damaged presidential palace
A Haitian sits on the rubble, as rescue teams work amid the ruins of a building
US heliborn paratroopers download supplies from a Navy helicopter after securing the heavily damaged presidential palace
A US Navy helicopter lands in front of the heavily damaged presidential palace in Port-au-Prince
People take cover as as U.S. soldiers from the 82nd Airborne land in the garden of the palace
U.S. military helicopters swooped down on Haiti's wrecked presidential palace to deploy troops and supplies on Tuesday as a huge international relief operation to earthquake survivors gained momentum.
Troops in combat gear then moved to secure the Haitian capital's main hospital, where staff have been overwhelmed by huge numbers of seriously injured patients.
Their dramatic arrival brought crowds of quake survivors camped out in the park opposite the palace rushing to its iron railings hoping for handouts of food.
We do not know exactly what they have come to do but I think they are here to help us, so we tell them welcome,' said one observer, 40-year-old Alex Michel.
In a bid to accelerate the arrival of humanitarian aid and stem looting and violence, the U.N. Security Council unanimously agreed to temporarily add 2,000 U.N. troops and 1,500 police to the 9,000-member peacekeeping mission in Haiti.
But international doctors said disease would be the next big challenge for the tens of thousands of Haitians left injured and homeless when the massive quake struck a week ago.
As the United States and United Nations deploy more troops to secure the relief operation, hundreds of looters have been swarming over damaged shops in Port-au-Prince, seizing goods and fighting among themselves.
United Nations relief agency officials said the security situation was under control and had not hampered distribution of food rations to 270,000 Haitians so far.
The situation is tense but calm. Of course there are lootings because the population is on edge,' Elisabeth Byrs, spokeswoman of the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), said in Geneva.
Haitian officials say the death toll from the magnitude 7 earthquake that destroyed much of the capital on January 12 was likely to be between 100,000 and 200,000.
Some 52 rescue teams from around the world continued the race against time to find people still alive under the rubble of collapsed buildings. They have saved around 90 people, including two on Monday.
'There is hope, because of the conditions, a mild climate and air pockets in the debris due to the way houses are constructed,' Byrs said.
More than 11,000 U.S. military personnel are on the ground, on ships offshore or en route, including some 2,200 Marines with earth-moving equipment, medical aid and helicopters.
Haitian President Rene Preval said U.S. troops will help U.N. peacekeepers keep order on Haiti's increasingly lawless streets, where overstretched U.N. and Haitian forces have been unable to provide full security. Gunfire could be heard in the wrecked capital city through Monday night.
U.S. Defence Secretary Robert Gates said U.S. forces would not play a police role but would defend themselves and 'have the right to defend innocent Haitians and members of the international community if they see something happen.'
Medical teams pouring into Port-au-Prince to set up mobile hospitals said they were overwhelmed by the casualties and warned of the immediate threats of tetanus and gangrene as well as the spread of measles, meningitis and other infections.
The World Health Organization, or WHO, said on Tuesday at least 13 hospitals were working in or around Port-au-Prince.
The U.N. agency was bringing in emergency medical supplies on Tuesday to treat 120,000 people over the next month, WHO spokesman Paul Garwood told reporters in Geneva.
We are not past the emergency phase yet, but we are starting to look at the long term,' said Margaret Aguirre of the International Medical Corps, whose staff had helped with 150 amputations so far.
'There is a risk of cholera and tetanus, and a huge need for mobile medical units,' she told Reuters in Port-au-Prince.
AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria are rampant in Haiti, many children are malnourished and hygiene was a challenge even before the quake.
Under the protection of U.S. troops, food and water and other emergency supplies have begun arriving more regularly at the congested U.S.-run airfield in Port-au-Prince.
U.S. military officers hope to reopen Port-au-Prince's shattered seaport in two or three days, but are relying for now on airdrops of food and water to those waiting in makeshift refugee camps.
The World Food Program (WFP) said 270,000 people had received emergency food assistance by Monday night.
We are looking at having 10 million ready-to-eat rations going out in the course of the coming week,' WFP spokeswoman Emilia Casella said in Geneva. That would feed half a million people three times a day for a week.
Fuel prices have doubled, and there were long queues outside gas stations, where cars, motorbikes and people with jerrycans have lined up. Haitian police stood guard at some.
One sign of the return to normality was the emergence of street vendors offering fruit and vegetables for sale.
Although a few street markets began selling vegetables, charcoal, chicken and pork, tens of thousands of survivors across the city were still clamoring for help.
Gordon Brown today said the coming days would present a "test" of whether the official organisations of the international community could live up to the compassion shown to Haiti by ordinary people around the world.
Speaking at a press conference at 10 Downing Street following talks with European Council President Herman van Rompuy, Mr Brown said: 'People across Britain and Europe have shown enormous generosity. Now, in the coming hours and days, we must continue to improve our effort at rescuing the people of Haiti and begin the reconstruction of this troubled and fated country.
No-one can fail to be moved by the scenes we are seeing from Haiti. No-one can fail to be moved to action.
'This is now a test of the international community. It is a test of our compassion. It is a test of our resolve. And it is also a test of our ability to co-ordinate our actions together.
'It must not be beyond our ability, working together, to make sure we can rescue as many people as possible, bring services back to the people of Haiti and begin the reconstruction of a country that for too long has been immersed in poverty and now in tragedy.
'We will do everything we can to ensure that the compassion that has been shown by British people and people all over the world is matched by a co-ordinated international effort to help the people of Haiti.'
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton, the U.N. Special Envoy to Haiti, did his bit for the aid effort on Monday by unloading bottles of water from a plane after landing in Port-au-Prince.
'It's astonishing what the Haitians have been able to accomplish, performing surgeries at night ... with no anesthesia, using vodka to sterilize equipment,' he said after touring a hospital where supplies were very tight.
World leaders have promised massive amounts of assistance to rebuild Haiti and Preval appealed to donors to focus not just on immediate aid for Haitians but also on long-term development of the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere.
Dominican President Leonel Fernandez proposed the creation of a $2 billion-a-year fund to finance Haiti's recovery over five years.
European Union institutions and member states have offered more than 400 million euros ($575.6 million) in emergency and long-term assistance.
U.S. President Barack Obama spoke with Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula de Silva on the need for the two governments and Canada to take the lead in organizing donor conferences, a Brazilian official said.
The United States agreed to take in Haitian orphans who are being adopted by U.S. citizens and are legally confirmed as eligible for adoption abroad by Haiti.
Obama's handling of the Haitian crisis won the approval of 80 per cent of Americans polled by CBS News and may have helped a rise in his overall job approval rating to 50 per cent from an all-time low of 46 percent last week, CBS said.
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