For 48 frantic hours his parents had searched for their two-year-old son

For 48 frantic hours his parents had searched for their two-year-old son, digging with their bare hands among the twisted rubble of their collapsed home.

They could hear his increasingly weak cries but simply could not shift the mangled concrete and metal that had trapped him somewhere below.

Yesterday, however, came the joyous moment they had feared they would never see after the massive earthquake that struck Haiti on Tuesday, killing up to 50,000.

Rescue workers, burrowing deep into the rubble, head torches picking out their route, edged their way successfully towards little Redjeson Claude.

He was then passed along a human chain, his head scarred by dried blood and his face covered in minor wounds.

He looked bewildered - until the moment he saw his mother Daphnee. Then, his eyes lit up and his face creased into a smile as she reached forward to cuddle him.

For the international rescue teams operating in the heart of the broken Haiti capital Port-au-Prince, it was a moment of relief and achievement as they worked, often in wreckage containing bodies, in a race against time to find those still alive.

The morale of the British rescue team was also raised when they dug out a two-year-old girl from a collapsed building.

She had been trapped for three days and was pulled free by firefighters from Greater Manchester who named her Mia.

'Following a lengthy and difficult operation in high temperatures, one of the teams managed to reach Mia who was trapped under piles of rubble under a kindergarten school that had totally collapsed,' said a spokesman. It was the first full day of deployment for the British team.

The United Nations has launched a £346million appeal to provide help for 3million people there over the next six months.

UN humanitarian chief John Holmes said the emergency request to provide food, water and shelter.

Meanwhile, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will fly to the country today to get a firsthand look at the relief effort as well as to help evacuate some Americans caught up in the disaster.

At least 55 people had been rescued alive in the city by last night but aid agencies said that voices, including those of children, could still be heard calling from the debris.

In one school, rescuers found two girls and a boy alive, while in a crumpled tower block they discovered a 60-year-old man, who had been in his fifth floor apartment when the earthquake, measuring seven on the Richter scale, hit

At the city's Hotel Montana, Spanish rescue teams pulled 65-year-old Sarlah Chand, a doctor, alive from the debris where she had been buried for more than 50 hours, fearing she would die where she lay. Remarkably, she had no broken bones.

The hotel had 'folded' in seconds and she had plunged several feet before coming to rest in an area where plenty of air was able to flow through.

Sitting up eating a biscuit while medics checked her, she said she had been trapped with five others and had been talking with them up until moment of rescue. All five were subsequently pulled clear, including an American.

Rezene Tesfamariam, Haiti director of charity Plan International, said people were using their bare hands or basic tools such as shovels or pick-axes to try to reach loved ones.

He said: 'There are people still alive underneath the rubble, you can hear them crying for help, but time is running out.

'It is beyond the means of individuals to reach them. They are trying to move concrete with their hands. What is desperately needed is proper machinery and equipment to lift the rubble.'

Mr Tesfamariam, who lost his own home in the quake, added: 'I have seen refugees fleeing war and cyclones hitting villages, but in those cases at least you have time to run away. In just a few seconds so many lives were wiped out. Port-au-Prince looks like it has been bombed.

'I went back to my house and a neighbour called my name. She said there were children under the rubble. I shouted to them and they called back.

As bodies block the streets, the survivors beg: Get aid to us now

Desperate Haitians pleaded with international authorities yesterday to do more to get emergency aid to those who need it.

Governments across the world are pouring relief supplies and medical teams into the Caribbean state - already the poorest in the Western Hemisphere.

But the sheer scale of the destruction and logistical problems in distributing supplies has meant hundreds of thousands in the capital Port-au-Prince are without food, water or shelter.

The earthquake badly damaged the city's seaport, allowing only limited use, while its airport has been forced to turn away aid planes because of a lack of space and fuel.

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