Tagata o te Moana. 2009-11-07

Tagata o te moana is a weekly half-hour round-up of news about the Pacific from Radio New Zealand International, broadcast on Radio New Zealand National on Saturdays at 5.30pm. This week's edition is presented by Don Wiseman, and the items are:

Fiji's military regime expels Australia and New Zealand's top diplomats with tit-for-tat expulsions by Wellington and Canberra;
Fiji's army commander is sent to Iraq for a break;
Six Chinese ethnic Uighurs who were released from the United States military prison at Guantanamo Bay have arrived in Palau;
French Polynesian veteran politician, Gaston Flosse, has lost his parliamentary immunity as a member of the French Senate;
The distribution of aid to tsunami-affected Samoans is criticised;
Bikini Atoll islanders are not giving up their quest for compensation for the US nuclear tests 60 years ago;
Former All Black, Va'aiga Tuigamala, says his heart is set on helping Pacific youth become leaders in their own right.
Source: Radio New Zealand iNEWS.