Video reports from Haiti

As international organisations rush to contain a developing humanitarian crisis, Al Jazeera has teams in and around  Port-au-Prince, the Haitian capital, covering the story as it unfolds. The following are some of the video reports they've filed.

Jan 17 | Disputes emerge over Haiti aid control

It is five days since a devastating earthquake struck Haiti, spreading fear and misery across an already fragile nation.

After a relatively slow start, US forces appear to be taking the lead in organising international aid efforts on the ground. But there is a long way to go.

Residents outside the capital complain they have been forgotten. In rural towns and villages survivors have largely been left to fend for themselves. 

Jan 17 | Former US presidents lead Haiti aid appeal

Barack Obama, the US president, has recruited two of his predecessors to lead a major fund-raising drive for victims of the Haiti earthquake.

In a bid to appeal to all Americans, Obama asked former presidents Bill Clinton and George W Bush to front the campaign.

Jan 16 | South Haitians protest lack of aid

Much of the reporting after the earthquake in Haiti has been from the capital, Port-au-Prince. But the devastation and the need for help is just as severe in the south of the country.

In the city of Carrefour, near the epicentre of the quake, no rescue teams are on site and angry residents have blocked the roads to protest against the absence of aid.

Jan 16 | UN confronts 'worst ever disaster'

The United Nations says Haiti's earthquake is the worst disaster it has ever had to deal with. Aid is now pouring in, with a steady flow of relief getting through the nation's only airport.

The World Food Programme says it expects to feed a million people. But survivors say help is not happening fast enough as dead bodies lie scattered on the capital's streets.

Jan 16 | Boy found alive under Haiti ruin

Three days after the earthquake hit Haiti, residents in a Port-au-Prince neighbourhood heard the sound of a child crying from beneath the rubble. They managed to dig the boy, called Nixon, out of the ruins.

For Haitians still searching for their loved ones, the story of Nixon offers a glimpse of hope and some call it a "miracle".

Jan 15 | Problems hold up Haiti aid

Governments and international organisations are trying to mobilise efforts to help the survivors of Haiti's devastating 7.0-magnitude earthquake. But medical assistance and other kinds of aid have yet to reach many of those who escaped the ruins of Tuesday's catastrophe.

The setbacks have made survivors increasingly desperate and angry as bottlenecks and infrastructure damage delay relief efforts.

Jan 15 | Haiti quake UN's most fatal incident

Thirty-six UN workers have been confirmed dead in Haiti's devastating earthquake, making it the deadliest single incident in the world body's history.

There are fears the toll will rise with at least 188 staff still missing.

Jan 15 | Despair in Haiti quake aftermath

In the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti, life has become a struggle for those who survived the disaster. Bodies still remain unburied by the side of the road, and supplies of food and water are scarce.

Aid has slowly started to arrive but tired of waiting for relief, many residents are trying to leave the capital, Port-au-Prince.

Jan 15 | Injured Haitians fill Dominican hospital wards

With medical care in short supply in quake-struck Haiti, many injured have been transported across the border to the Dominican Republic.

Ambulances and private cars full of victims have been shuttling back and forth from the Haitian capital since the quake hit. The hospital in the border town of Jimani is now packed with badly injured Haitians and the scene is chaotic.

Jan 15 | Haiti quake survivors left homeless

Al Jazeera's Mike Kirsch, reporting from devastated Haitian capital Port-au-Prince, meets a family that has lost everything in the earthquake and hears from others who sing their thanks to God for giving them another day.

Jan 14 | Haitians struggle to cope amid aftermath of earthquake

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Barack Obama, the US president, gave a televised speech in response to Haiti's catastrophic earthquake as victims spent their second day struggling with the destruction it left behind. Thousands of Haitians are now left to survive without water, sanitation or electricity.

The Red Cross in Haiti fears up to 50,000 people were killed in Tuesday's earthquake, but Haitian officials say it could be twice that.

Jan 14 | World responds to Haiti's earthquake

The sheer scale of the destruction in Haiti is only now emerging and will be a major challenge for aid groups.

An Air China flight landed in the capital Port-au-Prince, ferrying a Chinese search-and-rescue team, medical personnel and tons of food and medicine.

Three French planes also brought in supplies and a mobile hospital, Brazilian relief workers offerred 15 tonnes of food and the United States is pledging $1m for aid relief in the wake of Tuesday's magnitude 7.0 earthquake.

Jan 14 | Haiti's history of hardship

Haiti's fate as one of the poorest countries in the hemisphere has not been inevitable. It's history has been marked not only by natural disasters, but by political and economic conflict. It is a story of international intervention that has left the country particularly vulnerable.

Jan 13 | The science behind Haiti's earthquake

Al Jazeera's meteorologist, Steff Gaulter, explains what made the Caribbean nation of Haiti so susceptible to such a devastating earthquake.

She says the problems are all due to where the Caribbean plate is situated.

Jan 13 | Haiti beset by series of natural disasters

The Caribbean island nation of Haiti has been beset by a series of natural disasters in recent years, experiencing four devastating tropical storms in 2008.

Tuesday's 7.0-magnitude earthquake will only further complicate living conditions for residents of the poverty-stricken country where 80 per cent of Haiti's nearly nine million people live below the poverty line.