Tagata o te Moana. 2013-11-30. 17:30-18:00.

A weekly wrap-up of news, issues and current affairs from the Pacific. The programme is broadcast nationwide every Saturday evening on Radio New Zealand National and is produced by the newsroom of Radio New Zealand International. The following rundown is supplied from the broadcaster’s news system:

1. Health authorities in French Polynesnia say up to 30,000 people, or about ten per cent of the population, may have been infected by the zika virus over the past six weeks.

2. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees says Australian-run asylum seeker camps on Nauru and Manus Island are holding people in arbitrary detention and do not meet international standards of treatment.

3. A former top ranking military official in Fiji Pita Driti has been found guilty of inciting mutiny.

4. A regional meeting on Pacific fisheries starting on Monday will debate restrictions on tuna catches.

5. The head of New Caledonia's Rheebu Nuu environmental group, Raphael Mapou, says it will only condone to restart of the Vale nickel plant if it can guarantee its safety.

6. It's hoped that a 'one-stop-shop' crisis service for domestic abuse sufferers in Tonga will prevent re-victimisation and encourage more victims to come forward.

7. Plans to arm American Samoa police officers have moved a step closer, with the first shipment of handguns arriving.