The first relief shipments arrived in Myanmar Thursday after resistance from the country’s reclusive military government to foreign aid.

“Not only does the United States want to reach out, but the entire international community wants to help, wants to get assistance to the millions of people affected by this terrible storm. And we’re getting the stiff-arm. They will take the goods, but they don’t want the experts to make sure that the victims actually get this, this desperately needed assistance,”

said Shari Villarosa, the top U.S. diplomat in Rangoon, in a NewsHour interview.

Villarosa and UNICEF’s Richard Bridle discuss the aid response for the tens of thousands left homeless by the cyclone on NewsHour.