BBC News with Jonathan Weekley.
The government of Haiti says more than 150,000 bodies have been recovered in the capital Port-au-Prince alone since the earthquake that struck 12 days ago. Many of them have been buried in mass graves. Greg Morsbach reports.
Haiti's Communications Minister said the figure was based on the amount of bodies collected by the authorities from the capital city and its outskirts and then buried in mass graves. She said nobody knew precisely how many more were still under the rubble of collapsed buildings across the country. With many of the dead buried quickly in mass graves, there haven't been proper funeral ceremonies for them. As for any possible survivors trapped under the remains of houses, there is still a small but fading glimmer of hope that a miracle rescue could happen again.
The United States government says it cannot yet confirm the authenticity of an audio message purporting to be by Osama Bin Laden. In the tape, the speaker praises the attempted bombing of a US airliner over Detroit last month and warns of further al-Qaeda attacks. Mr. Barrett is the coordinator of the United Nations' al-Qaeda Taliban Monitoring Team. He thought the tape was genuine.
"It's rare that other people claimed to be speaking as Osama Bin Laden when they are not, but also of courses there is other previous tapes that it can be compared with. And I think it's quite straightforward on sort of basic voice analysis to decide whether indeed it is Osama Bin Laden. And I would imagine in this case that it will be."