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and hello. you're watching cnn newsroom. >> we would like to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. >> our top story, we begin with strong words with the president of south korea. >> he's condemning the behavior of the captain and some of the crew of that ferry that sank off the country's coast last week. >> translator: first and foremost, the actions of the captain and some of the crew are absolutely unacceptable, unforgivable actions akin to murder. >> searchers have recovered 64 bodies from the disaster. the last five were discovered inside the sunken ferry. rescuers say 238 people are still unaccounted for. >> searchers have released transcripts of the chaos at sea last wednesday. they show the captain was not on

the bridge at the time of the disaster, but it is not clear whether maritime traffic controllers understood that. the following exchange deals with the safety of passengers. [ indiscernible ] >> there's anger over the slow rescue operation. relatives of the missing ferry passengers have vented their frustrations at a south korean government official. they shouted at the minister in charge of ocean policies. they even pulled his hair at one point. >> joining us now with the

latest is cnn's will ripley. he's on a fishing boat there at the scene of the recovery off the coast of south korea. and will, despite difficult conditions, divers have been making it inside that sunken ferry. what is the latest on the recovery efforts? >> reporter: natalie -- [ audio difficulties ] we started out as a sunny, calm day. now, there is a bit of a haze over here. the wind has picked up and there's some chop out on the water, as well. that could be problematic -- [ audio difficulties ] literally a few centimeters in front of their faces they can see their palms and that's about it. [ audio difficulties ] this is where we believe the

majority of the -- >> all right. we tried to hang in there with our signal, but as you can hear, it's sketchy. we'll try to get more on the search efforts in just a little bit. >> now to ukraine where violence over the weekend is threatening to derail a proposed peace deal. >> gunfire erupted at a makeshift checkpoint in eastern ukraine sunday. pro-russian militants blame a ukrainian nationalist group who deny involvement. the ukrainian government says they are investigating the shootout. the violence came just one day before u.s. vice president joe biden's scheduled visit to kiev. >> accounts of sunday's attack are vastly different. pro-russian militants say six people were killed, while ukraine's interior ministry

reports three people died. it's not just the death poll, though, that's in dispute. >> reporter: a nationalist attack, or an elaborate propaganda stunt? how and why these cars were torched are now key questions impacting ukraine's future. uri is one of the many pro-russian militants who now control the town. he shows me where he says he helped fight off an attack on this checkpoint. he says these were among the four cars which approached before people got out and started shooting. this man says he was at the barricade when it came under fire. he says he saw his friend die before reinforcements arrived to help them. the new pro-russian administration says six people were killed in the shootout. three from each side. and the surviving attackers fled in their remaining two cars. everyone here says they know who to blame. right sector, that's who

attacked us, he says. it's a ukrainian nationalist group. pro-russians say they recovered all of this from the attackers, including what they say is a right sector membership tag. moscow accused the government in kiev of failing to reign in extremists. but right sector says that's not what their tags look like and they deny being involved. and kraukraine's security servi aren't buying the pro-russian story either. they believe pro-russians staged the attack. whatever happened here, it's already having a wider impact. the locals we've spoken to tell us because of this, they will not be persuaded to give up their weapons. this is the beginning of civil war. they wanted it, with this, they've got it, he says. but the pro-russians don't want to fight a war alone. the self-declared mayor has

asked russian president vladamir putin to send peace keepers to protect the town. and if not soldiers, he says please send weapons and humanitarian aid. phil black, cnn, eastern ukraine. more than six weeks now into the hunt for malaysian airlines flight 370, its disappearance seems as confounding as ever. the up manned mini submarine searching for the plane with sonar has covered 2/3 of a search zone at the bottom of the indian ocean and is yet to find any trace of the plane. above the waves, up to ten aircraft and 11 ships still scanning more than 49,000 square

kilometers. they too have found nothing. and bad weather is expected to make their jobs even harder. a tropical cyclone is centered northwest of the search area and honing in. despite the discouraging results so far, officials have insisted the search will continue. cnn's michael holmes has more now from perth. >> reporter: the eighth mission of the bluefin 21 submersible ended this morning. sadly, the data showed the same result as the previous seven trips, no sign of missing flight 370. a night scan will start in the next few hours. the focus, very much around where the second acoustic sound that searchers hoped was from a black box was picked up on april 8. the missions have covered about 2/3 of that area. this is an important week. the acting malaysian transport

minister has reached in his words a critical juncture and he and the australian prime minister say the current search area will have been gone over in the next few days. but they still feel that area is their best shot at finding the aircraft. the planes and ships are still searching for surface debris, but with nothing found after 44 days, hopes surely fading for anything on that aspect of the search. complicating operations is cyclone jack, a powerful system northwest of the search area. not likely to make a direct hit, but weather and sea conditions are expected to be impacted. the malaysian acting transport minister says even if the current search areas turns up nothing, the search, in his words, would never end. he asked for prayers this week. they might needed. michael holmes, cnn, perth, australia. >> and michael mentioned

tropical cyclone jack heading into the region. how soon before the storm gets here? >> the storm is about 600 miles away and we're seeing some thunderstorms beginning to develop ahead of the cyclone itself. we also know wave heights, according to the joint typhoon warping center, wave heights as high as four meters. once the storm gets here inside the next two days, wave height also be 7 to 10 feet on the water. so any visual search will be impacted. plenty of rainfall over this region as the storm system nears the zone. winds about 60 miles per hour once the storm gets here. but the strongest winds at this point look to stay just outside of the search zone with cyclone jack. the season as the waters cool

off is beginning to come to an end. i want to talk about what's happening in the eastern united states. we've had one fatality associated with rip currents on the coast of florida sunday afternoon. something to note, today being the 21st of april, if no one passes away from tornadoes, this will tie a record for the latest without a tornado death. this again does not happen very often in a country where we have over 1,000 tornadoes a year, 100 fatalities. again, at this point, still sitting at zero deaths through the 20th of april. it's worth noting with all the cold weather across the eastern u.s., the southern u.s., that's really inhibited storms to form. >> we've still had snow in much

of the country. >> plenty of snow and ice. thanks. still to come here, yemen says it's taking on militants linked to al qaeda. >> but are civilians getting in harm's way? we'll talk with a former cia operative about this situation. plus, boston is getting ready to hold its annual marathon after last year's attack. how one victim is ready to run again. your education is built to help move your career forward. here's how: we work with leading employers to learn what you need to learn so classes impact your career. while helping ensure credits you've already earned pay off. and we have career planning tools to keep you on track every step of the way. plus the freshman fifteen, isn't really a thing here. and graduation, it's just the beginning. because we build education around where you want to go. so, you know, you can get the job you want. ready, let's get to work.

we return now to our top story, the ferry disaster in south korea. we have just learned that four more crew members of the sunken ferry have been arrested as suspects for their role in the deadly disaster. the chief prosecutor says two first helmsman, one second helmsman and the chief engineer are now under arrest. the four could face indictment

on several charges. and this comes as a diving operation to the wreck continues off the country's southern tip. we get more now from cnn's will ripley. he's there. >> reporter: right now in the search zone, a frantic effort to search the sunken ferry for any possible survivors, even as the odds of finding anyone alive diminish greatly. the divers are surrounded by a number of ships, filled with people who are here to help. but the real work needs to happen under the water where divers are fighting very tough conditions, low visibility, shifting currents and the grueling emotional duty of having to bring bodies back to shore. listen to what the diver who is head of the volunteers, listen to what he has to say and you can hear how this is taking an emotional toll. >> translator: finding survivors is the strong desire of the

whole of the nation. we're all volunteers. we cry every day and search for the missing people. i cry whenever i think about it. all the families of the missing people and hundreds of volunteer divers are focused on searching for survivors. we're willing to risk our lives for this. >> reporter: dozens of aircraft are out here joining the ships and all of those divers are facing tough conditions under water where they can barely see, and they have to use guidelines to navigate through the dark corners of the ship. but their work continues as they hold out hope of perhaps finding someone under the water here. will ripley, cnn, south korea. >> an official with yemen's government has sold cnn a massive and unprecedented operation killed at least 30

members of al qaeda. according to this official, the strikes were carried out in the same region where al qaeda leaders and followers held a mass gathering in the open last week. we're told the raid was a joint u.s.-yemen operation. the second attack in two days. no confirmation if u.s. drones were used in the strike, but the united states is the only country known to carry out drone strikes in yemen. >> it's clear that the yemeni government is responding to the videotape released last week. that tape was an embarrassment to the u.s. and the yemeni government. they spent so much time, so many resources trying to vanquish them in yemen, which is such a threat, not just to the middle east but to the u.s., as well. and the yemeni government is saying that they're going to go after these targets in a way that they haven't in the past. this is very rugged, dangerous terrain, so it is surprising that commanders are there.

as far as how much the u.s. is involved, we've been told the cia has helped plan the operations but there are no u.s. personnel on the ground there at this hour. >> for more on the strike and the credibility of this report coming from yemen, a short time ago i spoke with cnn national security analyst bob beir. this information about a massive strike is coming from a source within the yemeni government. so your opinion on this, how credible is this information? >> well, i don't take it seriously. i would like to see some other collateral information to support this. but it's clear the yemeni government is embarrassed by this al qaeda meeting last week. they had to do something, especially with the aid conference coming up. i think they're at least going through the motions. but the number killed, let's wait and see. >> so the aid conference, that's the friends of yemen group meeting next week. there's billions in financial

aid here, so in some ways the yemen government has to show they're doing something against al qaeda. >> john, absolutely. they still haven't taken control of these areas where al qaeda has its bases. they want to show that there's some sort of offensive going on and they're in control. i think this conference was a huge embarrassment to them, and luke i said, they had to do something. >> let's assume this is accurate and there was another strike over the weekend. but as you say, this latest strike took place where there was a gathering of dozens of members of al qaeda. is it possible that yemen's military and presumably the u.s., they get a do-over in all of this? >> no. i've worked with the yemeni military in the past. these tribal areas, they really can't get into them. their intelligence is bad, al qaeda is alive with these

hostile tribes. there's only so much they can do. they've had years to do something about al qaeda and they haven't. >> they've had this weekend of strikes being carried out against training camps and what they say are senior al qaeda members. if we look at the death toll here, it could be anyone. it could be senior al qaeda members but it could be women and children. >> what's happened, al qaeda has gone off cell telephones, which means that most of these strikes are so-called signature strikes. a drone will see somebody with a couple guys with weapons. they'll assume they're al qaeda and hit. but more off than not, these are simply tribal groups that are armed and they kill more civilians than they do al qaeda members. >> okay. bob baer, we appreciate that. good to seek with you. >> thanks. after last year's tragic

bombings, boston is ready to run the marathon again. >> coming up after the break, how the u.s. city is putting a little muscle into that motto, boston strong.

it is that time of year again for boston, and boston is apparently ready to live up to its motto of "boston strong" as it prepares to host its annual marathon today. >> more runners and more security. a little more than a year ago two bombs exploded at the finish line, killing three people and wounded more than 260. >> so this year as you can imagine, security beefed up with double the number of police officers to be scattered through the crowd. more than 100 additional security cameras also in place, and bomb sniffing dogs will also be all around the race route. many survivors of last year's

attacks are participating in today's race. cnn's poppy harlow talks with one woman looking to cross the finish line this year. >> reporter: this is boston strong, and i spent some of this afternoon with a woman who really embodies that phrase, boston strong. her name is heather abbott. she lost part of her left leg last year during the marathon bombing. the last year that she's been recovering, it's been astounding to watch her progress. he is not only walking again but running again. she's going to run the last half mile of the marathon, alongside a woman named erin who found her after the bombs sploided and helped save her. she's going to cross the finish line along with her. and then to heather, it was very important to feel as much like her old self as she could. part of that was wearing pretty high heels. so she's walking on her

prosthetic leg in four inch high heels. she told me she accepted early on what happened to her and realized how hard she was going to have to work to recover and get back to the place she wanted to be. she has certainly put in that hard work. i want to listen to what she told me when i asked what marathon monday is going to mean for her. >> this year for , it's like a new starting point. it's a day where i'm going to do the things i was supposed to do last year and didn't get to. it's sort of a celebration i think for me of all that i've been able to accomplish this year and a time to start new memories. >> reporter: one of the things that heather has done this year is she's been helping other amput amputees. she's certified as a peer counselor and she's helped other amput amputees.

she said that's actually helped her as well in her own recovery. in terms of what we're going to see, we're going to see heather and 36,000 other runners cross the finish line here in boston. more than a million spectators are expected. police will be on high alert, security very, very tight here. we are told there are going to be some 3500 police officers. both plain clothes and uniform police officers. dozens of security checkpoints, 100 cameras lining the routes. people are being asked not to bring bags at all with them. very tight security here in boston as they try to make sure that everything is secure but celebrate what a big, important day, hopefully a day of healing this is for the people of boston as we think about all the survivors and the victims of the horrific attack last year, the day here in boston will be a beautiful one. mid 60s, sunny, and a race that

will again hopefully help this city heal from all they have gone through. >> poppy harlow there with that report. of course, the security, some people believe will make boston one of the safest places to be, not just in the united states but anywhere around the world. one of the big concerns is there could be a copy cat of what happened last year. >> hope not. it will be an emotional run for so many people. maybe they'll have more adrenaline and do it faster. >> 5,000 people didn't get to finish last year because of the bomb attacks. >> it will be hopefully a wonderful thing to watch. coming up, the nightmare continues to unfold in south korea's ferry disaster. >> every time a body is brought to shore, loved ones are called in to make a positive i.d. coming up, we'll have the very latest.

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and welcome back to cnn newsroom. >> it's 3:30 on a monday morning here on the east coast and the headlines this hour. four more crew members of the sunken south korean ferry have

been arrested. they are the first to helmsman, one second he wilmsman and the chief engineer. the captain and some others are already under arrest. pro-russian militants say ukrainian nationalists are responsible for an attack at a makeshift checkpoint in eastern ukraine. several people were killed after gunmen opened fire at a road block sunday. the nationalist group being blamed says it had nothing to do with it. an operation targeting al qaeda in the arabian peninsula is under way in yemen. that's according to a high level yemeni official. he says it's massive and unprecedented and at least 30 militants have been killed so far. it comes just days after a video surfaced showing a large gathering of militants. searchers have recovered at least 64 bodies from the south korean ferry. 238 people are still unaccounted

for. kentucky's kyung lah reports it is a painful environment for everyone as you can imagine, as bodies are brought ashore. >> reporter: the first police boat returns from the search site. parents waiting, bracing. they return one by one in identical plain white bags. behind the screen, initial inspection. a blanket to cover. and a short march back to land. parents rush to the white tents to identify their children. he must have said, daddy, save me, weeps this father.

no one is immune to the sound of losing a child. as the families leave the tents, so too do the stretchers emptied, returning to the gurneys that await the next boat. another group of someone's children. another march back to the tents. 13 return in this group, but more than 200 are still missing. gurneys on the left side of the dock, divers board ships to the right to continue the search. to bring the rest home. kyung lah, cnn, south korea. >> wow. there's some strong currents and winds out there complicating the efforts to get those bodies back. let's take a look at the forecast.

that was hard to watch, and we know the divers are facing tough conditions. >> the divers go down into the water, the currents are so strong, they're not able to hold their positioning inside the vessel. this region of the world, really the yellow sea and the east china sea, some of the most complex currents in the world when it comes to oceanic currents. we hav very active region as far as water conditions are concerned. we do have a storm system beginning to move in towards this region. over the past several hours, this storm comes in with strong winds. we know very strong thunderstorms possible. at this point, the model works the storm just south of the search area, but cloud cover expected here later on tonight and tuesday morning.

but finally some better news for the searchers out there as the weather pattern begins to become more tranquil. any time you're doing search and rescue work over the open water, you're going to be right there in the fueling source of storm systems. very little in the way of friction to slow storms down. so high pressure as early as tuesday afternoon, so generally clear skies and calm winds shape up. this is what we call the isobars. cloud cover is going to be almost nonexistent tuesday afternoon and the winds are going to be almost nonexistent, as well. so much better news in the forecast over this region. but so many people, 500 folks out here involved going underneath the water and many vessels atop the surface, so the need for calm waters and clear skies definitely there. it looks like that is going to

be provided in the next couple of days. >> thanks, p.j. we've been telling you about the uncertainty and the tensions for the people of ukraine. despite an attack we've been telling you in eastern ukraine sunday, easter sunday services were still held strong in kiev. cnn's frederick plighten shows us the joy of a family final he reunited. >> reporter: a light and a prayer in a country on the edge. there's a feeling of anxiety at the traditional easter basket blessing, and a worried look on victoria's face. her husband, andre, is stuck in crimea. only she and her son made it to kiev. >> translator: it's awful. we lived in crimea for years, and now the russians just pushed us out. i'm very concerned about my

husband and whether he'll be able to come here. >> reporter: victoria is a sergeant in ukraine's air force, based in crimea until russian forces moved in and forcing ukraine troops to leave. >> translator: it's really hard to celebrate easter this year. not just for me, but for everyone, because we just don't feel safe. >> reporter: that feeling is ever present. praying for peace as the family gathers for the feast at victoria's mother's home. and in churches across ukraine during the easter holidays, a time of reflection, forgiving and reconciliation many hope might calm fiery tempers, both in ukraine and internationally and allow cooler heads to prevail. easter is our most holiday this

priest says, and in this time we think about the situation and each other and it should bring all of us together. and sometimes prayers are answered. the next day, victoria received word her husband made it out and will arrive on this train from crimea. home. that's the first thing andre says as he steps off the train and embraces his wife and son. >> translator: i can't express how happy i am to be with my family after such a long time. >> reporter: in these times, even the little things can bring great joy, as people in this divided nation pray that world leaders will heed the easter spirit and not allow the delicate flame of peace to expire. >> i want to go back to that

story at the checkpoint in the eastern part of ukraine. where does that now leave the geneva peace deal agreed to just last week? >> reporter: well, at best i would say that peace deal is at this point in peril. you have several things that are a problem with that peace deal. on the one hand, pro-russian protesters have said they don't think that peace deal is binding. and now the protesters are saying they want russian forces to move in. but at the very least want russi weapons from the russians. there seemed to be very different interpretations about what the peace deal means. the u.s. and ukraine say it means the separatists need to lay down their arms. and the russians say they believe the right wing groups have to lay down their arms, as

well. the separatists say the government in kiev should step down. there's varying interpretations about what this deal means and here inside the country it seems at least the pro-russian protesters are not heeding that deal any way. so it's difficult. however, all sides are saying they don't believe it's dead yet and it is still the best chance this country has for any deescalation. >> the u.s. vice president joe biden is on his way to kiev. he'll arrive later today, meeting with ukrainian leaders on tuesday. the ukraine prime minister wants economic and military support. is he likely to get anything close to that from the u.s. vice president? >> i think the ukrainian prime minister wants as much support as he can get, but he's realistic as to what the international community can do. i spoke with him last tuesday. he said he's grateful for any support. one of the interesting things that happened late friday is

that the u.s. announced it would conduct additional military maneuvers on nato's eastern boarders. it's sending 150 troops to poland and 150 troops to estonia. that's a little token sign, that's definitely very important to the government here in kiev for the u.s. to show it's willing to put soldiers in that area. any sort of economic support is something that would be appreciated. but the government in kiev says, it feels as though the international community is doing what it can on the one hand to keep the pressure on moscow. and on the other hand, always leave the door open for any negotiated settlement. john? >> 300 american troops, 40,000 russian troops on the border, interesting equation. thank you for that, live for us there in kiev. for people with loved ones on missing flight 370, all they

can do right now is to continue to wait. they, of course, have made no secret about their ongoing frustrations with malaysian authorities. but as nick robertson shows us, families are caught in an emotional limbo. >> reporter: for six weeks, leila has been waiting. >> emotion ally is up and down. sometimes i'm okay, sometimes so-so. sometimes always very sad. >> reporter: the worst was three weeks ago, when malaysia's prime minister said flight 370 ended in the sea. >> it extremely hurts. >> reporter: her husband was one of the cabin crew. they met 19 years ago, when she too was an air stewardess at malaysian airlines.

a conversation they had a week before the fateful flight helps keep her going. >> we are going to celebrate our anniversary this year. and he was telling me, of course, it was the best for him. i was asking him, are we going to have the next ten years together? of course. >> reporter: also helping her to cope, their three children. two boys, 12 and 10, and a girl, just 8 years old. >> they don't show their emotion much, i'm trying to hide my emotions as much as i can. they try to cheer me up. >> reporter: after six weeks, her hardest moments, finding a way to tell her children they may never see their father again. >> i was telling them also to

accept if the father have gone forever, and they said they will try as much as how i can accept it. >> reporter: in your heart, what do you tell yourself? >> he's there, he'll be there, wherever i go, whatever i do, e he will always be beside me. >> reporter: nothing could prepare a family for this, waiting without knowing. a wife, a mother, coping one day at a time. >> although i smile, it's not from my heart. i smile because of, you know -- i believe everybody was feeling the same. >> reporter: nick robertson, cnn, kuala lumpur, malaysia.

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in nigeria, a man believed to be the leader of the militant group is claiming responsibility for last week's deadly bombing in the country's capital. but he's not saying whether the group abducted more than 100 schoolgirls as is widely suspected, because they have done it before. vladamir joins us now from the nigerian capital. vladamir, there have been statements and misstatements about the whereabouts of these girls, where they have been released, whether they have escap escaped. what do you know as far as their fate? >> reporter: what we know from the governor's office late last night, another seven girls have come home to their families. that brings the number of girls still missing to be about 77. number of girls that have come home 52.

this area where these girls were taken is about 130 kilometers from the capital. this is the strong hold. this is where they -- the biggest camps are. this is when the president last year said that parts of the state were not under government control. the military or the government had no control over a particular area of the state. this is the part of the state he was talking about. this is where they are known to be hiding. it's a very dense forest. in the past, the military has used air attacks, but right now they can't do that because there are civilians this the area. and for them to go in this forest would be very difficult indeed. they would be going into an offensive situation where they are not familiar with the

terrain and there's a high possibility of extreme casualties. for the moment, the girls that have been taken by them typically in the past, they have not harmed them in the sense of a physical sense. they have been forced into marriage, had children. but even though we know there's a search and rescue operation under way, there probably isn't an all-out assault on the camp because that would lead to high casualties on both sides. the president has directed the military to go after the group and to bring back the girls, but we know at least 77 are still held in captivity and 52 have come home. so a couple of happy parents, but for the others still a very sad moment. >> absolutely. they have been terrorizing that country for so many years and it continues. thank you.

despite the drug violence, a growing number of older americans are spending what they call their golden years south of the border in mexico. >> i did not know that. >> an option for many people. >> yes, something for all of us to think about one day perhaps. they say they have found an easy lifestyle in mexico, and they plan to stay. raphael romo checked in to why. >> here we are. >> reporter: a toast with friends sitting by the pool in the backyard and enjoying unbeatable weather. it's the life sarah dreamed of, a life she found abroad. >> there's lots of people who have done it, and everybody likes it. >> reporter: the 63-year-old and her 70-year-old husband mike are both american retires from minnesota. they have been enjoying the warm weather and beaches for more

than six years. sarah organizes activities for expats. >> we have lots of friends in our expats groups and we have happy hours, we have wine and appetizers, we have coffeys in different neighborhoods. we get together at different restaurants. >> reporter: medical care is another factor they considered when deciding to move here. >> the accessibility to the doctors is something that we just never experienced in the u.s. and from what we understand, it's getting more difficult, not less. >> reporter: many doctors and dentist officers cater to foreign clientele. medical care here and in general in mexico is much more affordable than in the united states. a doctor's visit is only about $40. >> no matter what they do, $40 per visit and you can get in to see them the same day you need them. it's very convenient in a lot of

ways. >> very high quality lifestyle. >> reporter: mike altman says affordability goes beyond just medical care. >> we have an ocean view, 3,000 square foot condominium that i can afford on my social security. how's that? >> reporter: according to officials, the community here composed mainly of americans and canadians is about 35,000 strong. that number continues to grow in spite of safety concerns. drug violence in mexico has made headlines around the world in recent years. the tourism secretary was gunned down last year. but these expats say the little corner of paradise has largely remained untouched. >> we're here for good. they'll probably take us out in a jar and ashes. >> what's not to love?

i think they're having a good time. >> i don't know. a duchess to -- >> you're not even from here. >> i am now. thank you. take a short break. you may be here when we come back. but a duchess, two future kings and a building. >> after the break, a visit to the australian zoo.

all right. we can't get enough of following them around australia. the royals plan to visit australia's northern territory. >> their visit to the outback will be only their second night away from baby prince george during their 19-day tour of australia and new zealand. little george staying back in sidney. >> i admit, i can't get enough of looking at little george.

he is a cute little thing, little ball of fat. it doesn't mean the young prince is missing out, though. >> they took him to the zoo in sidney. max foster was there. >> reporter: proud parents taking their boy on a trip to the zoo. and an encounter with a billbi. george, meet george. not a coincidence, of course. this bilby was named after this heir to the throne. george seemed thrilled to receive a keepsake, a toy bilby. but maybe not. this his second official engagement lasted half an hour, before he was whisked away to nanny. then his parents carried on. past the tree kangaroos, and

some nonindigenous species. then into an amphitheater with a view, where they were treated to an animal show. the message here was conservation. and it's one that's close to the duke's heart, and the couple seemed to love it. there you have it, the royals stroking a koala bear. a historic royal moment. and pictures that will also play into australia's visual history. one that's still linked to a monarchy based on the other side of the planet. max foster, cnn, sidney. >> love it. early start is coming up in the u.s. >> everyone else, please stay with us for "world business today."

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