Haiti short of food after riots over food shortages

SHOTLIST 1. Wide of UN soldier securing area where food is stored 2. Various of Haitians moving World Food Programme boxes and bags of rice, loading sacks into trucks 3. Close up of bags printed with label reading (in English): "Gift of Spain, World Food Programme" 4. Wide of rice bags stacked high on pallets 5. Zoom in to Haiti street scene 6. Various of children, some partially-clothed or naked 7. Child walking naked towards a rusty shack 8. Wide of Haitians trying to buy vegetables from the truck 9. Close-up of women transporting vegetables in baskets on their heads 10. UN soldiers (Brazilian contingent) entering the neighbourhood of the Cite Soleil looking for organised gangs 11. Pan of soldiers checking suspects 12. Wide of soldiers checking suspects 13. Soldiers running down the alleyways of Cite Soleil, chasing a suspect 14. Pan of soldiers in Cite Soleil 15. Wide of a hospital sign of Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) 16. Various of wounded lying in the hospital beds 17. Wide of David Saint Felix, wounded with gun bullet in the leg 18. SOUNDBITE (Creole) David Saint Felix, wounded in the leg during protests: "I was passing through the Haitian marine base looking for my brother who was in the protests when I was hit with a bullet in my leg." 19. Wide of more wounded 20. SOUNDBITE: (French) Wagner Pierre, Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders): "In the last 4 days we have received 160 wounded, 40 of which were from gun bullet wounds." 21. Wide of Haitians fighting to buy petrol, in the few gas stations that have opened to the public 22. Wide of vehicles waiting for petrol 23. Wide of Haitians making a queue to buy diesel for cooking 24. Zoom in of filling up the canisters with diesel for cooking 25. Medium of people forming a queue 26. Wide of Haitians waiting to get water from broken pipes 27. Medium of canisters waiting to be filled with water 28. Pan of a canister being filled with water 29. Wide of people looking for water 30. Various of Haitian women carrying canisters with water on their heads STORYLINE: A third day of riots in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, had by Friday paralysed the city with looting and violence. The demonstrations began earlier in the week, in protest against rising food prices, and turned into riots. The looting has made access to food even more difficult, doing little to ease widespread hunger among Haitians. Port-au-Prince hospitals were filled with people injured in the riots, being treated by volunteers from the organisation Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders). Wagner Pierre, who works for Medecins Sans Frontieres, said many of the wounds they were seeing were a result of bullets. "In the last 4 days we have received 160 wounded, 40 of which were from gun bullet wounds," said Wagner. Many of the injured were bystanders caught in the crossfire, like David Saint Felix who was wounded in the leg during the protests. "I was passing through the Haitian marine base looking for my brother who was in the protests, when I was hit with a bullet in my leg," said Saint Felix. The fighting across the capital was punctuated with calls for the Haitian president's resignation. The US-backed president, Rene Preval, has pledged to build up Haitian agriculture and make the country more self-sufficient. But food prices have risen 40 percent globally since mid-2007. Haiti, the poorest country in the northern hemisphere, has been hit especially hard because it imports nearly all of its food, and most people live on less than two US dollars a day. Haiti's food problems will be discussed next week in Brasilia at a regional meeting of the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/1f6934c74c46781e8150e49717d3ea11 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork