We begin in Haiti a 72-hour state of emergency has been declared in Porter Prince and surrounds after armed gangs carried out two serious jailbreaks the BBC has been told the vast majority of inmates held the capital's main prison have escaped some 4,000 men gangs who now control much of Porter Prince broke Into the jail in the early hours of Sunday at least 12 people have been killed in the unrest this latest up surge in violence began on Thursday when the country's primee Minister Ariel Henry traveled to Nairobi to discuss sending a Kenyan Le multinational security Force to Haiti for more I spoke To Harold Isaac who's a freelance journalist who's in Porter Prince now we are we have entered a state of emergency along with a curfew and this is the answer of the government to the latest developments in the last few hours uh where the security situation has seriously degraded here in the capital Port of Prince just describe what it's like well um for the most part everybody here are expecting to have a disrupted week as uh over 4,000 inmates have uh uh fled the the two um detention centers here in Port of Prince and uh creating a real security crisis aggravating what Was already a challenging uh uh time to be uh in the city uh so it's really a lot of questions without with very little answers at this point some inmates we heard chose not to leave the prisons they actually felt safer to stay well safer and also legal consideration and also protecting the Their lives um um because uh many of the high profiles uh especially the Colombians or uh uh people that were involved in the assassination of the president some of them decided to stay uh in order not to get killed in crossfires between the police and gangs or to have their sentence aggravated as A result of fleeing the the the present so there are many implications for those who have actually fled now the prime minister is in nairoby his absence is partly what you know where they those S an opportunity to seize control what's likely to happen next and how soon will This multinational security Aid come in this is unclear at this point nobody has the details at least publicly as to when uh to expect the troops the Prime Minister himself should be on his way back as we speak uh but nobody knows for sure where he is at this moment uh and As such is the uh at inim at inim Prime Minister uh Mr B who has taken uh and signed a decision to have the state of emergency along with the curfew tonight