Dateline Pacific morning edition for 17 November 2017
One of the Pacific leaders at the COP23 climate change conference in Bonn in Germany says the meeting is struggling to make progress on key issues; the new Solomon Islands prime minister Rick Hou says he is committed to passing the anti-corruption bill recently tabled in parliament; the polls have closed in Tonga in an election dubbed one of the most significant in the country's history; Vanuatu's Special Envoy on Climate Change has resigned in protest at what he says is the government politicising his island's volcano disaster since eruptions escalated in late September; two sports from Tahiti are expected to compete at the Pacific Mini Games depsite a government boycott.