UN troops hurt in Haiti violence

By Stephen Gibbs
BBC correspondent in Havana

The violence is hard to control in Port-au-Prince

An Argentine soldier in Haiti has been injured in the northern city of Gonaives - the second UN peacekeeper to be shot in Haiti over the weekend.

On Saturday a Brazilian was hurt in the capital, Port-au-Prince, during a battle with supporters of the exiled President, Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

Three weeks after Tropical Storm Jeanne devastated parts of the island, 200,000 people remain homeless.

The US has warned Americans not to travel to Haiti except in an emergency.

Aid workers attacked

The Argentine soldier was shot in the arm as he was clearing a road block set up by protestors in Gonaives.

The situation in the city is highly precarious.

There is a desperate need for food aid in Gonaives

Many are still living on rooftops, having lost everything.

Aid workers report increasing violence and say they are becoming victims of attacks.

The French agency Doctors of the World is pulling out of the city until security improves.

Iraq tactics

The violence is also threatening to get out of control in Port-au-Prince.

On Saturday there was a gun battle in the slum area of Bel Air as Brazilian troops and Haitian police conducted an operation against armed gangs.

Sixty people were arrested.

Haiti's government says supporters of Mr Aristide are behind the violence.

There is some evidence that tactics by insurgents in Iraq are being mimicked.

In the last week five beheaded bodies have been discovered in the streets of the capital.