Dateline Pacific evening edition for 3 September 2018

There are opportunities and challenges for Pacific island countries signing up to China's Belt and Road Initiative. Fiji has already joined up to the Pacific prong of the strategy - the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road; new powers will allow Palau's government to revoke tourism operators licenses for breaching a set of laws being introduced to improve environmental protections in the country; the Fred Hollows Foundation New Zealand's Vanuatu eye clinic provides vital eye care for people in the country; as Facebook moves to reassure the world it is improving online protections against abuse and false information, questions are being raised over whether this strategy extends to the Pacific; the American based Samoan actor, Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, has announced he's been cast to play Hawaii's King Kamehameha in an upcoming Hollywood film.