...new pledges of aid totalling more than $300 million to deal with the disastrous floods that have swamped large parts of the country. But the UN said millions of flood victims hadn't yet received any aid whatsoever. The new pledges came after the UN's emergency relief operation said on Monday that it had still only received about 1/3 of the money it needed. Mike Wooldridge reports from Islamabad.

Aid officials here talk of some progress on the ground over this past week. They say access to flood victims has increased, as has their own capacity to respond. But the problem is that they are constantly trying to catch up with the disaster that's grown with every new area flooded and, they say, without the funds to enable them to get closer to bridging the gap. Pakistan's UN envoy in Geneva said he believed the international community still needed to understand how serious the situation is.