Dateline Pacific morning edition for 30 October 2018

The future of New Zealand's relationship with the Pacific has been the focus of a meeting in Wellington; Tahiti's pro-independence leader Temaru decries his ban from assembly as a political move; the scale of damage from powerful Typhoon Yutu in the Northern Marianas is slowly becoming clear; the superintendent at a marine reserve near Hawaii says she was astounded when a cyclone wiped out an entire island in one night; the Fijian Drua have conquered Australian rugby by winning their first NRC title.