joining us is kent page, senior communications officer for unicef.heir website, by the way, is unicef.org. christiane amanpour interviewed the prime minister of haiti earlier this week, asked him about the exploitation of the earthquake's youngest victims. watch. >> do you know for sure that children are being trafficked now? >> there are children being trafficked. and also guns. >> no, but live children. are they being trafficked now? >> in a report i received, yes. >> so how are you going to -- who's helping you to stop this, to deal with this? >> mainly, i'm trying to work with the ambassadors. any child that is leaving the country has to be validated by the embassy. and the first thing, they have to confirm to me that they were already confirmed -- >> adoption papers were legal and in -- >> even if all the process was not completed, but there should be on the processes and normally they should have been in an orphanage and we know them and we know that they have no parents right now. >> larry: you were saying, telling me, diana, how important the

that other people made up the index with 40 different components of child well-being go into the unicef index whether they can talk to their parents, books at home, bullying at school, immunization rates, everything goes into it. if you look at it in relation to inequality, you find the clear relationships again. a very strong tendency, you do exactly what we would withdraw level of any quality. once more, that same index with her person the child well-being their, absolutely no relationship. all that data shows it says no longer the whole society is getting richer. what matters is how far behind us children are or the poor are but the gaps between us and the distance up and down the social hierarchy that matters. now i will handed over to kate that will talk about the individual relationships but i go come back later. >> good evening. it is special to be here on this particular day and always nice to come back to the states provide live tears 16 years provide found a great wealth i a will have a slide after slide after slide even though the united states is doing badly i'll take you to

children around the world, we are joined by patrick mccormick of the united nations children's agency, unicef. thank you very much for joining us. >> pleasure. >> talk a little bit about what's being done to protect vulnerable children in haiti from the type of activity that we have been hearing about this week in the news. >> well, we are creating what we call safe spaces, which are spaces for these unaccompanied children that have become lost or separated from their families. we need to find them, give them food. we need to take care of them. and that allows us also to protect them against anybody who has got the wrong idea about what you can do with a child in this sort of situation. >> how would you enforce that? there are undoubtedly unscrupulous people thought that take advantage of vulnerable children and more so during times of natural disasters. how do you keep children safe in these kind of circumstances, poor children? >> well, you -- your vigilant. you watch over them. you have the police on your side. you have got -- we have multiple partners, including the authorities, in this c

it is unclear how many children were orphaned, but unicef says that even before the earthquake, 380,000 haitian children were either orphans or had been abandoned. new clashes this week between israeli soldiers and palestinians after israel added religious sites in the west bank to its list of national heritage sites. the most controversial addition is known to jews and christians as the cave of the patriarchs-- the traditional burial site of abraham, isaac, and jacob in hebron. but the site is also revered by muslims who call it the al- ibrahimi mosque. israel's action sparked several days of riots and protests. u.s. officials called the israeli move "provocative and unhelpful" to the peace process. in washington, as legislators met with president obama to debate health care reform, an interfaith coalition was among the many religious groups urging congress to extend coverage to the most vulnerable. leaders of more than a hundred national and local faith groups signed a letter cautioning that quote "turning back now could mean justice delayed for another generation." there were several

unicef started a huge vaccination program to try to reach the half of haitian children who are inadequately vaccinated. one clinic divided its camp of 7,000 into 35 sectors. dr. paul legere has a team that visits every sector every day. they interview people abt their heal. if anyone complains of illness they get a ticket to see a doctor on the edge of camp. the goal is to identify any clusters of infection and stop the spread. the one piece of good luck is that it hasn't rained since the earthquake. everyone fears what will happen to this horrible environment as soon as it gets wet. the forecast says it could rain tomorrow. robert bazell, nbc news, port-au-prince. >>> more to tell you about as our broadcast continues along the way here on a wednesday night, including the countdown to the olympic games and the olympian task of keeping the events safe. >> and later, what it takes to make a city prettier. ity prettier. asthma forever. i never knew why my asthma symptoms kept coming back... ...kept coming back... ...or that i could help prevent them in the first place. the problem was that my

they were second until the most recent unicef report that just came out a few weeks ago.we were just able to change the statistics in our book to reflect it. that according to unicef, afghanistan is the worth country in the world for a child to be born. and it beat out sierra leone for that honor. --. the average life expectancy for women is 44. women are old at 30 in afghanistan. and women die in childbirth in afghanistan more than they die in childbirth anywhere else in the world.⌜ and eight years of occupation by the u.s. military has not changed that statistic. that to me the most crucial piece of evidence of the failure of our occupation and our war. if we claim that this war is to help the people of afghanistan, how in the world can we begin to justify it when afghanistan has just won the7÷k award of being worst place in the world for a child to be born. >> i want to switch a little bit and then we're going to open it up for a conversation with you all here.ws]r hjá3vvsÑ to switch a little bit and talk about the drones. i know that's been a big issue when obama ca

so a lot of the groups, unicef, save the children, a lotlooking have orphanages in haiti that really help these kids and there's a lot of support that can be done for that. and there are very strict rules in place about what kids can be taken out. and those are rules that anybody who's operating down there, any legitimate group who works with children knows those rules. again, we're just trying to figure out what happened with this group of americans. they are in custody tonight and certainly they're not the image of traffickers that the hatian government seems to be painting, but, then again, still a lot of details to be uncovered. >>> coming up next tonight, how do you figure out who's an orphan and who isn't? i know it may sound easy, but in haiti, it is anything but easy. the future of hundreds of thousands of kids is at stake. you'll meet the people looking out for them. >>> and later, the military's top general says it's time to let openly gay americans stay in the service. you'll see the reception he got from lawmakers who will have to make the monumental change, tonight. well

child from another country and you know, and whatever circumstances, that is what the people from unicef and save the children were saying. in fact they said, the thinking is that they should be reunited with their parents. and these children who were taken by the missionaries, there is a fear that they, their parents are still alive. i mean there are some reports that that was the case. so right now the government is advising people not to just simply adopt these children out or take them out of the country. in fact any child that wants to leave the country has to have the permission of the prime minister before they can leave. you know, there's a concern that children could be trafficked. they could become sex slaves or domestic servants. and that's what they are trying to avoid. in addition to that, you know, a lot of children who are kind of seemingly lost, there are a lot of orphan kids but there are some kids that have relatives still here in haiti. and the hope is to try to reunit them with their families. so these americans will have to see what happens to them. there was a heari

a lot of the groups, unicef, save the children, a locality of groups look at way to have orphanages in haiti that really help these and there's a lot of support that can be done for that and there are very strict rules in play about what kids can be taken out. those ared rules that are a legitimate group who works with children knows those rules. gen, we're trying to figure out what happened with this group of americans. they're in custody tonight, and certainly they're not the image of trafgers that the haitian government is paints. then again, still a lot of details to be uncovered. >>> next tonight, how do you fill out who is an orphan and who isn't? it may sound easy, butd in haiti it is hundreds of kids. you will meet the people looking out. >> the top general says it's time to let openly gay members stay in the service. we'll hear from lawmakers that have to make the monumental change tonight. i knew i had to get my cholesterol under control. but exercise and eating healthy weren't enough for me. now i @%ust my heart to lipitor. (announcer) when diet and exercise are not enough,

the unicef figures on child suffering and so on were truly awful. i believed in coming back to iraq, getting the weapons inspectors back in, keeping the un together, if necessary using military action. if need be, i thought we should look at the possibility of getting into the kitchen national court as we had done with most of it. so why exclude me when i believed what they said the policy was? . i had to decide. and, indeed, that is happy to be paid. it is meant to be a cabinet system, because, of course, if you have a presidential system, you would put better checks in the legislature, so we were getting a view that he decided that he and his mates around him and those that he could trust to do what ever he decided and then the closing down of normal communications and then these things to the cabinet. that is a machinery of government question. there is also a competence of decision making question. because if you do things like that, and they are not challenged, and if they are not thought through, then i think we have seen the error is. >> they

program, through unicef. unicef, i have been watching with fascination and have written about but nothing seems to really happen these days. has been using a u.s. designated iranian bank for a ga gaza appeal. i have asked them about it. are you doing anything about it? that's the kind of swamp where you can go on forever among the small crazed group of people who really dig into this stuff we called them rabbit holes. the rabbit holes, there's a universe of rabbits out there. let me just give you a quick example of who is running what right now at the u.n. the general asem assembly is chaired by libya, the former foreign minister of libya. i'm not sure whether that's a step up or down from last year. : there is dialogue with his and country al qaeda members, that's where we go and the folks we're dealing with when we go to the u.n. agency is supposed to be dispensing aid to help fix the u.s. image and make people happy and rich and what ever. one more on the is, although there is one of my favorites of with z

children's fund, unicef, and its partners have identified and registered some 200 unaccompanied children found in orphanages. and wandering in neighborhoods in port-au-prince. based on the given information and photographs taken, workers will begin to trace the families of these children, if they exist. a similar registry was used after the 2004 tsunami in indonesia, and more recently in cyclone hit mir amar. right now the best assistance that people can do is to give a financial contribution to a humanitarian organization working in haiti. days after the earthquake, secretary of homeland security, janet napolitano, announced the designation of temporary protective status for haitian nationals who were in the united states as of january 12, 2010. this designation will allow eligible haitian nationals in the united states to continue living and working in our communities for the next 18 months. they will provide a temporary refuge for haitian nationals who are currently in the united states and whose personal safety would be endangered by returning to haiti. granted t.p.s. to haitians wou

his view was containment could go on but that wasn't my view because unicef's report on child suffering was truly awful. getting western inspectors back in and keeping the you and to get there if necessary using military action to get saddam hussein if need be, i thought we should look at the international court. why exclude me when i believe what they said the policy was? >> just pursuing the machinery of government one more step first, what we have heard from mr. blair and mr. campbell is that the iraq decisions were very much personal judgment that the prime minister of the day made but this was based on the strong convictions that he described to us in his evidence on friday. it was his responsibility as a leader as prime minister to take the tough decisions and that these were then endorsed by the cabinet. you said it wasn't substantial discussion and mr. blair said it was. the cabinet of which you were a member, than the decisions were imports by the house of commons of which you are still a member even though the cabinet ministers weren't satisfied with the information or the lev