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Battered Philippines receives aid from world

Weakened Haiyan makes landfall in Vietnam

AFP, Manila
The United States, Australia and the United Nations mobilised emergency aid to the Philippines as the scale of the devastation unleashed by Super Typhoon Haiyan emerged yesterday.
The Pentagon sent Marines and equipment to assist with the relief effort following the typhoon, which may have killed more than 10,000 people in what is feared to be the country's worst natural disaster.
Even Vietnam, despite coping itself with a mass evacuation programme as a weakened Haiyan swung onto its territory, provided emergency aid worth $100,000 and said it "stands by the Philippine people in this difficult situation".
On the ground, the relief operation was centred on the city of Tacloban on Leyte island, three days after one of the biggest storms in recorded history demolished entire communities across the central Philippines and left countless bodies as well as gnawing desperation in its wake.
Delivering on a promise of quick help from President Barack Obama, about 90 US Marines and sailors based in Japan flew into Tacloban aboard two C-130 Hercules transport aircraft, after receiving a bird's eye view of the immense scale of destruction across Leyte.
They brought communication and logistical equipment to support the Philippine armed forces in their relief operation.
"We are gonna move stuff as they direct, as the Philippine government and the armed forces (ask)," Brigadier General Paul Kennedy, the head of the Okinawa-based 3rd Marine Expedition Brigade, said inTacloban.
Kennedy's men were the advance guard of a Marine operation that in total will encompass up to nine C-130s plus four MV-22 Ospreys - tilt-rotor planes that can operate without runways - and two P3 Orion aircraft for search and
rescue.
"That is what I do, I provide capabilities that are not resident here," Kennedy told reporters.
The Australian government pledged Aus$10 million dollars (US$9.38 million), with Foreign Minister Julie Bishop describing the unfolding tragedy as "absolutely devastating" and on a "massive scale".
The sum includes Aus$4 million towards a UN global appeal and Aus$3 million for Australian non-government organisations. The aid will include tarpau-
lins, sleeping mats, mosquito nets, water containers and health and hygiene kits.
A team of Australian medics will leave on Wednesday via a Cl7 military transport plane from Darwin to join disaster experts already on the ground, the government said.
Philippine rescue teams were said to be overwhelmed in their efforts to help those whose homes and livelihoods were destroyed after Haiyan ravaged large swathes of the archipelago Friday.
Officials were struggling to cope with the scale of death and destruction, with
reports of violent looters and scarcity of food, drinking water and shelter.
United Nations leader Ban Ki-moon promised UN humanitarian agencies would "respond rapidly to help people in need".
The UN children's fund UNICEF said a cargo plane carrying 60 tonnes of aid including shelters and medicine would arrive in the Philippines Tuesday, to be followed by deliveries of water purification and sanitation equipment.
Pope Francis led 60,000 people in Sunday prayers for the Philippines, urging
the faithful to provide "concrete help" to the largely Roman Catholic country.
Typhoon Haiyan made landfall in Vietnam early yesterday, uprooting trees and tearing roofs off hundreds of homes, but sparing the country the widespread devastation wrought on the Philippines.
The storm weakened significantly since scything through the Philippines over the weekend.
But it still packed heavy rains and winds of 120 kilometres per hour as it hit northern Vietnam and more than 800,000 people were evacuated nationwide over the weekend as the weather system bore down on Vietnam.
In the northern port city of Hai Phong, residents said even a weakened Haiyan had felt like a major storm when it hit.
"The storm was really big. I cannot think of any other bigger storm than this over the past several years. I felt my house shaking last night," resident Nguyen Hung Nam, 70, told AFP.
"We were quite well prepared so I don't think there is that much damage."
The capital Hanoi saw downpours and houses in some northern provinces were damaged by high winds.
"Several hundred houses had their roofs ripped off. Thousands of trees in the province were uprooted," said Nguyen Cong Thuan, a disaster official in QuangNinh province.
"Three people were reported missing."
The government said no deaths had been reported so far, although five people died during preparations for the typhoon.
"Up to now, we have been successful in minimising human and material losses," Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai said, according to a statement.
In Quang Ninh - the most-affected province which borders China, where at least six people have been killed by Haiyan - images on state media showed high winds and heavy rain lashing towns.