
Fault Lines - Haiti - Six months on
Six months after the earthquake that killed as many as 300,000 people, the dust over Port-au-Prince has started to settle, and the damage underneath is only getting clearer. Al Jazeera's Sebastian Walker reports from the capital, where 1.5 million people are still displaced, many sleeping under tents and tarps with rubble removal barely underway and rebuilding not yet started. He walks through camps and cleared lots with residents describing months of waiting, and puts the scale of the UN and NGO presence against the gap that still separates foreign aid workers from the Haitian poor they came to help. The film also tracks a political argument running alongside the humanitarian one: the quake forced international donors to accept that Haiti needs a functioning state, but Haitians themselves are divided over who should lead the rebuilding and who has failed them so far. It is a report on stalled recovery rather than resolution, with the wreckage still standing as its own evidence.