craig leaseon reporting live. thank you for your time. >> already controversy around this year's u.s. climates talks. the meetings begin to try to solve global warming. it's being held in poland where cold is king. >> that's irritating environmentally analysts. >> the 10th can largest consumer of coal and relies on it for all of its electricity and playing host to the u.n. climate change talks. activists say it's no surprise then which companies the organizers have chosen to sponsor the event. >> they include aslar mital, the world's largest steel and mining company. it's activities produced over 190 million tons of carbon dioxide each year. >> that's more than the entire c 02 output for oil producing venzuela. >> also a partner, poland's largest electric company. it rungs this power station, one of the largest fossil power fuel plans in the world? >> it's dangerous and we have to insure this conference is for the interests of people in the planet. and these companies add their bottom line is to ensure they contin

craig leaseon joins us from sabu with the latest. craig? >> reporter: >> at a time cards have begun to turn in sabu in the central philippines. the australians were the first to arrive yesterday on two large transporters. they brought in medical aid doctors and nurses from aus aid provided by the australian government. they headed in to set up field hospitals in laite island, the hardest hit. the problem they've got there is that they have a makeshift hospital that has been set up by doctors who live in the area. tacloban, the capitol, where most of the destruction occurred but they don't have the basic necessities to treat people, and they are getting hundreds queueing up at this hospital with everything as simple as lacerations through broken legs. they have had to give birth there. they don't have pain killers. they are doing sutures and stitching people up without any anesthetic whatsoever. they are hoping this australian relief will ease that to some degree and help enormously with the medicines they are bringing in. also, we saw plane

more now from al jazeera's craig leaseon in man ill a. >> this is the moment when the storm hit taclaban, a city of more than 200,000 people. monster winds whipped in with gusts from around 300 kill meters an hour. with it came floodwater. people used mattresses to stay above the rising waters. i can feel the electricity in the water, guys. my legs are tingling. >> this is what rescuers are seeing. >> a tornado just passed us the tornado lasted for four hours. it was just crumbling, you know, at first, it, it was the ceiling that went off then the roofs just started to fly away in all directions, and then the water just started coming. >> the survivors are desperate. >> looting at a drugstore by the looks of it. >> we are opening as many stores as we can so that the people can have access to food. there is some looting going on. we deployed an army and b and b as much as we can: and trying to secure. power and water, which are the banks. >> with communications down and roads out, emergency organizations are struggling to organize relief. the philippines military has three hercules aircra