A resolution is reached in Samoa after a week of political drama that saw opposition MPs banned from parliament; Australia's new security pact with the US and the UK has touched a nerve at the heart of Pacific regionalism. Also Fiji's remote outer islands are on high alert as the Covid-19 outbreak reaches their shores; We hear about global support for a moratorium on seabed mining...and later on in the program; More than 360 Cook Islanders stranded in New Zealand will not be able to fly home until Auckland drops to alert level two.

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