20 Apr 2018

Dateline Pacific evening edition for 20 April 2018

From , 3:04 pm on 20 April 2018

New developments announced at this week's Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in London have underlined a move by the British government to re-engage with the Pacific; analysis of UK's move to re-engage with Pacific Islands announced at CHOGM with new diplomatic posts planned for Samoa, Tonga and Vanuatu; the evacuation of residents on the ash-covered Vanuatu island of Ambae is finally getting underway, as food supplies dwindle and disease starts to spread; Pacific reactions to Israel Folau's social media comments on gay people going to hell; rescue and evacuation underway in flood-hit Hawaii.