Dateline Pacific for Monday 9 December 2019

A leading oceans researcher says the effects of climate change in the Pacific have happened a lot sooner, and are a lot worse, than had been predicted; senior UNICEF officials say the measles outbreaks in Samoa and Fiji should be not be happening; coral restoration efforts orain the Pacific have received a funding boost with $US1.4 million raised for a project at the University of Guam; individual rights and the rule of law breached in the trial of the group of protestors known as the Nauru 19; a new report from global civil society alliance Civicus says some Pacific governments are trying to restrict the media and silence opposition voices.