RNZ: Sunday Morning

Rugby World Cup coverage goes online; the man bankrolling the big journalism awards, Hamilton is the country's press club hub.

Wendy Miles grew up in Piako and is now a prominent arbitrator and London-based QC, sought after as a leading expert on resolving international climate-change disputes. The Canterbury University graduate is back in New Zealand to speak at the Arbitrators and Mediators Institute of New Zealand conference in Queenstown. She talks about the challenges that come with climate change policies and how she works through international disagreements.

A whole generation of children is missing out on sport in Christchurch with continual delays to replace QEII park. A review is due at the end of the month into the fate of the Metro Sport Facility planned for a site near Hagley Park and whether all or part of it should be combined with the multi-event arena also planned for central Christchurch. But it won't be finished until at least 2021 and it's already two years late. Andrew Leslie, the chief executive of the NZ Recreation Association and Bill Grogan, the regional sports director for secondary schools in Canterbury, discuss the issue.

The Minister for Justice has asked the Law Commission for advice on changing abortion law but what do the Commissioners have to do?

The North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has stunned the world, announcing he is to halt all nuclear weapons testing. Joe Cirincione, president of US arms control advocacy group, the Ploughshares Fund gives his take on what this all means.

Cape Town, South Africa's second largest city of 4 million people is struggling with lack of water. Day Zero was to be the day the water was turned off if people couldn't stick to a daily limit of 50 litres. That day has arrived and the taps are still flowing. The city's leader say water-saving efforts mean Day Zero is now pushed back to 27 August. South African environmental advisor Dr Anthony Turton explains.

RNZ's chair has declined to give a voicemail to a Select Committee. The House looks at Parliament's ability to demand such things and punish those who refuse.

Sometimes Oral Questions in Parliament are a incisive scalpel, cutting to the truth with surgical precision. Sometimes they're a blunderbuss, firing wildly in the hope of finding a chink in the armour.

Each sitting day in the House MPs work their way through business which is set out on the order paper. Here's what they plan to get through this week.

The latest from the House

Wallace Chapman reads listeners' feedback from this morning's show.

Australian comedian Carl Barron's dry, working-man, deadpan style of humour makes him one of the most popular comedians in Australia - and he's the highest selling stand-up comedian on DVD in Australian retail history. He's in NZ this month for his "Drinking with a Fork" tour.

Australia's shadow assistant treasurer Dr Andrew Leigh is a proponent of evidence-based policy through the use of random trials. He's written a book, Randomistas, on why random testing can provide data for policies that work. He's in New Zealand for a lecture on how random trials can help reduce crime and inequality.

Jason Von Meding has researched the long-lasting health, ecological and economic impacts of Agent Orange to the Vietnamese and others involved in the Vietnam War.

"Miami became a popular diving spot where people could swim among sharks and barnacled SUVs and explore the wreckage of the great American city". A new book looks at coastal cities in a world of rising seas.