Remote island communities begin to receive aid in Vanuatu

Crops have been devastated, buildings flattened, and hundreds of communities are still waiting for aid agencies to arrive.

Across Vanuatu there's a desperate need for food water and shelter after the pacific nation was devastated by Cyclone Pam at the weekend..

Helicopters and aeroplanes have started flying out to some of the remote outer islands in Vanuatu, to try to deal with the devastation caused by Friday's cyclone but flooding has stopped them landing in some areas.

Susanna Streeter spoke to the former President of Ireland, Mary Robinson, who is now the UN's special envoy for climate change. Susannah put it to her that cyclones had hit Vanuatu before and asked how we could be sure climate change was behind this severe weather pattern.