Tagata o te Moana. 2014-03-08. 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. Chief justices from around the Pacific have strongly condemned the actions of the Nauru Government in deporting the resident magistrate Peter Law and revoking the visa of the island's chief justice, Geoffrey Eames.

2. Fiji's new military commander Brigadier General Mosese Tikoitoga says the country's military will stay out of politics.

3. Nearly 2 months after Cyclone Ian hit Tonga, three hundred families are still living in tents, and the Red Cross says there's no plan yet on how and when their houses will be rebuilt.

4. Teachers in American Samoa have been told they need to pass a test in order to keep their jobs.

5. The Secretariat of the Pacific Community, or SPC, says the number of dengue fever outbreaks in the region over the past year is unprecedented, and the reason for the increase in cases unknown.

6. The dispute between Tonga and New Zealand over a controversial plane is set to be solved by a new deal between the countries, but a travel advisory is to remain in place.

7. An American film-maker is hoping his documentary will lay bare the extent of United States nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands.