various different parts of community represented there. it went pretty smoothly. i did speak to one set of parents afterwards and they were involved in a bit of a scuffle. it seems there was a block on the floor and one little girl was playing it and prince george wanted it. he grabbed it, she screamed and everyone apologized to the duchess. >> photo opportunities abound, mack. just extraordinary. so what lies ahead now for the bonnie prince george and his parents? >> well, we're not going to see much more of him. that's the shame. people wanted to see as much of him as possible. because he behaves so well today, he may be brought out in a couple more engagements here in new zealand, but we're not expecting to see him again until he gets on the plane. and then his next big day will be at toranga zoo in sidney where he's going to meet some marsupials and billabies. we'll have some fun there.

prince george is the star of the show. lots of people making a lot of the fact that william is never carrying george. but i'm assured that he does behind closed doors. >> just gorgeous. we can't get enough of those pictures of the wonderful prince george and max foster, of course, joining us. they're traveling with the royal family. many thanks to you. >> coming up, a return to our top story. significant new developments in the search for flight 37 0. >> we will show you how they're raising hopes and sharp rning the focus in the indian ocean.

>> you are watching cnn news room. we welcome our viewers in the u.s. and around the world. >> search officials very optimistic that malaysia airlines flight 370 may soon be located. >> yeah, that's after underwater signals heard saturday were reacquired on tuesday. now, today's zernl involves 15 planes, 15 ships, all of them

covering some 75,000 square kilometers. we're going to bring in erin ne mclaughlin in perth. break down the newest information as it was presented today. >> well, they're very encouraged by this new information. they are confident now that they are looking in the right place. angus houston, the man responsible for spearheading this international search effort say they have been able to reacquire those signals. first detected on saturday, that brought new hope to this search effort. they detected those signal, not once, but twice. the first time yesterday afternoon for some five minutes, 32 seconds. the second yesterday evening for a total of seven minutes. now, houston did note that these two signals were noticeably weaker than the signals that they detected on saturday. he said that that was most likely because the battery life

on the black box pinger has expired. it was set to expire at 30-day mark. and it is now 32 day since this plane went missing. but at the moment, the ocean shield, the australian vessel is currently still out there combing the waters, equipped with the american-operated toad pinger locator, trying to reacquire this signal. they need more information, rather, they want more information to be able to narrow down this potential search feel. they're going to exhaust that effort until they're absolutely certain until the black box pinger has died. only then will they deploy this underwater autonomous vehicle. the blue fin 21 provided by the yao its to go down and search the ocean floor for any sort of wreckage. they're still saying they need to see wreckage to make sure this is actually from the missing plane. >> angus houston saying he will not get any other close, and reporters did try to push him. he won't get anywhere close to

seeing he's confident this is mh-370 because they need that confirmation first. he also mentioned although the batteries are designed to run out in 30 days or so, it's possible there may be more juice in there and that's why nay' been able to detkt these pings. so as you mentioned, they will wait now, won't they, to deploy the submersible vehicle. they've narrowed it down to 100 co kilometers or so, they still want to narrow it further. >> absolutely. and narrowing the search field is a priority at the moment. the blue fin 21 that i mentioned is very slow moving. it only covers about 11 square miles in a day, and add on top of that the conditions on the sea floor. houston in the press conference saying they can expect a lot of ocean silt top so deploying that vehicle is going to be a very

slow, pain staking process. so therefore they want more information. they want, in houston's words, to make hay while the sunshines. while they still believe this black box is emitting signals to narrow down that potential search field. and as i said, at the moment, that is the priority of this operation. >> all right, erin live for us in perth, australia. thank you. >> all right, let's go to sing moore now for more analysis on the search for flight 370. greg waldro in is the asia managing editor of aviation news website fly global and he joins us now live. thanks so much forç

not only are they keeping the ship in the area, but they're also dropping sonar buoys. they're capable of listening in very quiet ocean for more signals. so they're obviously placing a lot of cards on this recent opportunity. >> presumably, going by the language we heard from angus houston, of course, he is a military man, he's very cautious, he went very close to saying that this is the aircraft, without saying it, of course. and he's mindful of the families back in beijing and in australia and across other nations who are, of course, very sensitive to the language being used here. so just give us an idea how much more information you think they

have, if they're going to go this far. pretty much to say in days they feel they're going to find this aircraft. >> well, look, again, what's interesting to me is that they're going to be deploying so many sonabuoys in this area. they're devices designed to basically search for submarines. and once you use them, they're gone. so they only have a finite stock of this equipment. so the fact that they are willing to double down and place that bet on this search area is actually very significant. so that indicates, even though he was very, very cautious and very guarded in his statement, i think he's fairly confident this is where we're going to find the aircraft. or the wreckage of the aircraft. >> and of course, the big fear here now is that we heard from angus houston that the signal is starting to weaken opinion it's starting to fade. it's beyond the 30 days of the battery's life.

the possibility is there that there won't be another signal, that they'll have to work with these four detections. how much longer will that mean this process will take? >> it's impossible to say how long the process will take if the battery does indeed die. pu in a sense, the fact that the signal is getting slightly weaker, it does indicate that it was -- this would be about the time that the battery would be weakening on the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder. so in a sense, even though that's not a good thing, it is also a positive sign that this could, indeed, be mh-370. >> all right. talking there with greg woldron. many thanks for joining us and bringing us your perspective. appreciate it. oscar pistorius is set to resume his testimony today in a south afric african courtroom. he should be arriving there in the next few minutes. >> up next, we will find out if tuesday's emotional breakdown on the witness stand helped his

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>> welcome back. oscar pistorius is expected to arrive at the courthouse in pretoria, south africa anytime now for more testimony in his murder trial. you're actually looking at a live picture there as we await his arrival. the olympic runner broke down on the witness stand tuesday. as he talked about the night he shot and killed his girlfriend, reeva steenkamp. her parents there in the courtroom. today will be the third day of testimony for pri store yus. we'll bring you live coverage of the court proceedings, which will get under way in a little less than an hour from now. pistorius broke down in tears on the witness stand tuesday, he was so overcome with emotion, the judge had to stop the

proceedings for the day because of that. and new patricia wu asks paul call fn he thought tuesday's testimony helped pistorius or hurt him? >> i would say both. they're going to help him, i think, get acquitted on the intentional murder count. the premeditated murder count, but i think it's going to lead to his conviction on the next count down, which is culpable homicide. and that's a form of a reckless killing of a human being. a negligent killing of a human being. i think the fact that he cannot control his emotions as he's on the witness stands is a solid indicator that he acted quite recklessly on the night of the homicide, firing those shots through a door, not knowing who was on the other side of the door. he just seems like somebody who would be reckless in their use of a weapon. so i think it will hurt him ultimately and result in a conviction on the lesser charge. >> what else from his testimony surprise youd? eef.

>> well, for the first time, he got into detail about the fact that he actually spoke to reeva before he fired the shots. what he said basically was it was a hot night, his air conditioning system wasn't working and he was going to move a fan, and he spoke to reeva and told her that he had gotten up to do this. this is, of course, right before he hears the noises, and then goes into the bathroom when he hears a noise. so he's doing that, of course, to establish that he assumed she was in the bed and not in the toy let area. so that's really the first time we heard that kind of detail. but the thing that remains the most shocking to me is just his totally out of control behavior, and it seems to fit right into that text message that she sent saying, you scare me sometimes, you frighten me. he also said that he was, i think, the word he used, he was

bes besotted with his love for her. it's a classic case of someone being so passionate and reacting violently when the relationship is not working out. we see it all over the world, women being killed and beaten by men who, you know, feel that their passion is not being responded to. so it's really not an aun usual case in that respect. >> take your gun, your knives and throw them into the sea. the late nelson mandela said those words back in 1990, knowing full well the widespread gun ownership would be a threat to south africa's delicate social fabric. oscar pistorius found out the hard way the dangers of relying on firearms for personal protection when he shot and killed his girlfriend reeva steenkamp last year. whether tfgs cold blooded murder or a tragic accident, the courts will decide. but when we evaluate the gun culture, the first comparison that comes to mind is the united states. deep history of citizens taking

up arms to protect themselves. so take a look at this. more recently, in terms of

aparthe apartheid, it isn't just the use of force by police, but it was the structural violence and structural nature of the lie vens in south africa during apartheid which continues in many ways today. i think global data shows that countries with high levels of inequality are countries which experience higher levels of criminal violence and also particularly higher levels of gun violence. now, under the apartheid's arms and ammunition legislation, black people were prohibited from owning a licensed weapons. but that started relaxing during the late '80s, mainly to facilitate gun ownership for black police officers. one of the interesting thing that has happened in south africa is that the owning of a firearm, a legal firearm has been seen as one way in which

black south africans exercise their citizenship rights. and it's -- because it was denied in the past. but the numbers still seem to indicate that the majority of licensed gun holders are men and usual usually white men. and gun where is used for sports and leisure activity and fighting. so definitely they are, you know, it's highly racialized, gun ownership, the use of guns. but also, who the victims are. it's usually young men between the age of 18 and 29 who are the primary victims of gun violence. and i guess that's where if we look at the pistorius case that they are some dhash case fits the profile in the sense that pistorius is a young man, he's a gun owner. he used his gun to murder someone, which he has admitted himself irrespective of the

reason. but one of the patents of gun violence, not just in south africa, is that although women are generally not victims of gun violence, they are particularly vulnerable in their home to be shot and killed by a man intimate and known to them. usually with a lethal gun. >> we are minutes away from the arrival at court in south africa. you're seeing live pictures from outside the courtroom. cnn will have live coverage inside the courtroom as soon as the trial resumes. for those of you in the united states, early start a blue day will bring you that special coverage throughout the morning. i don't want to think about the alternative. i don't even know how to answer that. i mean, no one knows how long their money is going to last. i try not to worry, but you worry. what happens when your paychecks stop?

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courthouse in pretoria, south africa, expected any minute now. he will take the stand once again in hi own defense. >> and we're looking at that live picture, awaiting pistorius's arrival. kelly phelps has been following the trial since day one. a look at what to expect today. and of course, those first two days of testimony coming from oscar pistorius, emotionally charged. as a matter of fact, precedings had to be halted because of that. so what can we expect from this third day of testimony? >> well, today they have to get through crucial testimony. he stopped yesterday, obviously at this very emotionally charged point where she was lying bleeding in his arms. and he needs to continue today and speak about when he walked her down the stair, when she died, and the very important evidence to counterthe state's case about who he phoned when

and what was said during those calls. we also saw him yesterday for a very brief period in court take his prost thetic legs off. we can perhaps expect to see that again today. there's still some evidence that needs to be coveraged about his height with regard to the door and his ability to balance. so he will need to have composed hymn overnight to still go through those immediate minutes after the killings occurred, which i expect will still be very difficult for him. just explain to us if he clarified this point. did he explain why, if he thought there was an intruder in h iz home, and he was so afraid he got a gun that he wouldn't just grab reeva and run down stairs and get out rather than enter a room where he thinks there's an intruder and shoot into a door. has he addressed that key question yet?

>> i think his testimony addressed that question. there's key questions we can news to explain those issues. for example, we heard that he had spoken to her moments before he got out of the bed to get the fans from outside. essentially what that's implying is well, i just spoke to her moments before, she had been in the bed, why would i thought she wasn't still in the bed. he also said things like he whispered as he was exiting the room after getting the gun to tell her to be careful, that there was an intruder, to call the police. and essentially what that's suggesting is that she would have been so scared because she believed that the home had been invaded and they were both in immediate danger that she would have been absolutely quiet to avoid drawing attention to herself. although he hasn't given that explanation, the testimony he put on the record certainly

provides that explanation by implication. >> and kelly, once oscars bier pistorius gets through his third day of testimony, and his version of events of what took place exactly, the big thing, the cross-examination, and jerry nell will be doing that very tough cross examiner, what would you expect to occur in that instance with him very much under pressure, oscar pistorius? >> absolutely. it's going to be a very gruelling experience considering his fragile emotional state. but having said that, having seen the extent to which he's so fragile emotionally at the moment, it may be difficult for harry nell as well. he he's known for his aggressive style of cross-examination. but there is a fine line between aggressive and vehement cross-examination and when are a judge will feel you're badgering a witness.

i think he will have to walk that line very carefully now in cross-examination. but that will really be the crucial part of his appearance on the stand, of pistorius' appearance on the stand. because we can evaluate how he's done in his testimony in chief in terms of putting his version in a clear and coherent way on the record. but until he has faired through cross-examination, we can't really determine yet just how he's done. >> oscar pistorius expected to arrive in moments for the third day of his testimony. walking through his version of the events the night he shot his girlfriend reeva steenkamp. we will hear him provide that testimony and we'll bring it to you live. >> what we saw from his testimony on day one was his apology to a very stony faced parents of reeva steenkamp. then the second day, his account of what exactly happened. and how he responded when he

first killed reeva steenkamp. yesterday, proceedings had to be halted, but this is going to be very interesting to see what happens on day three as he tries to get through his version of the events. and you're watching cnn news room. ben! ♪ [ train whistle blows ] oh, that was close. you ain't lying. [ ql guy ] let quicken loans help you save your money.

based on "ocean shield's" detections, we're searching a much more concentrated area. >> the haystack gets smaller. new signals help team looking for flight 370 to narrow the search area. we'll take you live to perth, australia. after an emotional breakdown on the stand, oscar pistorius prepares to resume his testimony. we're live with that. also, ukraine on the brink once again with pro russian groups causing unrest in a number of eastern cities. and the debate on how to deal with the crashes is causing friction in washington. >> on the issue of ukraine, my hero, teddy roosevelt, used to say "talk softly, but carry a big stick." what you're doing is talking strongly and carry a very small stick -- in fact, a