Dateline Pacific morning edition for 26 October 2018

New Zealand's government has defended giving Papua New Guinea 15 million dollars to help it host the APEC leaders summit; as New Zealand hails its ratification of the PACER Plus trade agreement, there are claims that Pacific countries are set to lose out; at least two people taken to hospital after Super Typhoon Yutu ravages the Northern Marianas; disaster authorities in CNMI are clearing roads to access communities devastated by Super Typhoon Yutu; Government, community and business leaders from the Pacific are meeting in Wellington next week to try to 'reset' the relatonship between New Zealand and the Pacific; a giant conch shell has been revealed as the design for the Pacific Islands memorial at New Zealand's National War Memorial.