scene of a massacre. a first look inside the kenyan university attack by terrorists. plus, racing to escape, yemenis rush to flee their war-ravaged country. and can u.s. spies access your nude photos? the new twist on the debate about government surveillance. hello, and welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm rosemary church. >> and i'm errol barnett. our last hour of the day with you, this is "cnn newsroom." the conflict in yemen grows as fighting forces thousands to

run for their lives. [ gunfire ] >> houthi rebels and supporters of yemen's deposed president battled for control in the port city of aden after nearly two weeks of a saudi-led air strike has done little to slow the rebels' advance. and we just found out from unicef that 74 children have been killed since the fighting began. >> we want to show you a map, give you really a breakdown of what's under houthi control in the country. rebels have controlled the region you see in blue. that includes the capital city of sanaa. the red is aden where huthies are making gains. a key and strategic location in the country. all this fighting has forced yemenis and foreigners to leave the country. let's go live now to jibuti.

you saw firsthand how the country is falling apart. what did you see? >> reporter: we really did see the results of that devastation. the impact of those air strikes is decisive on sanaa airport where we were. we came in in a window that the saudi arabian air force had given to evacuate nationals. when we came in, the noise was gone which made it all the more eerie as you came in. no people on the streets. just the craters and pock-marked buildings. all the countries that can get nationals out are doing everything they can, including of course the indian government. this is what we saw. the indian government have been running air evacuation flights the last few days in and out of sanaa. in extraordinarily difficult conditions and within a tight

time frame as granted to them by the saudi arabian air force. they've been told they only half half an hour to load those waiting at the airport. you see the runway is unharmed. but all around it, you get a sense of the impact of those saudi air strikes. you see behind me the military aircraft all destroyed. all the while we've been here, the houthi military police car has been circling the plane. time is of the essence in the rescue operation. officials still nowhere to be seen. finally they come, all leaving their lives behind. this plane can't carry any cargo because it will slow it down. all these people that you're

seeing could only come on with what they can carry in their hands. they rush to take their seats, finally safe. finally able to close their eyes. >> my goodness. no gunshots being fired every minute. sometimes the sparkling lights. no some women crying, children terrified. >> reporter: as quickly as they're loading up, more and more people are coming on. this isn't even all the people that are waiting at that terminal hoping that they'll be flown out. there are still a few hundred more waiting at sanaa airport. sanaa still eerily quiet. this evacuation carried out during a window in bombardment.

but it will continue tonight. and there are still thousands trapped inside. after days of mounting criticism, the united states has confirmed that it will be evacuating its citizens through the indian flights much hike those that we were traveling on. that must be a huge relief for those still trapped inside sanaa. errol? >> definitely a huge relief. as we saw there from the indians who were able to evacuate, still frightening and a scary situation to be in. reporting from jibuti with the latest out of yemen. authorities have made a horrific discovery in iraq. this time in the city of tikrit. the images you are about to see are graphic. after 1,700 bodies were found in mass graves just days after the city was liberated from isis, it's believed the victims were soldiers massacred by the militants last june. officials say it may take weeks or even months to remove all the

bodies. kenya's fighting back against al shabaab with air strikes on the group's training camp in somalia. some comes days after the militants murdered 149 people at garissa university college near the kenya/somalia border. a military source, though, says this round of strikes was not in retaliation. >> and the source says it was part of kenya's ongoing operation against al shabaab. meanwhile, a police source tells us there was prior intelligence about a possible attack in garissa. it took kenya's rapid response team to get to garissa from nairobi. >> kenyan authorities gave cnn access to the garissa college campus where evidence of last week's massacre is everywhere. >> christian purefoy, covering the story for us since the beginning, in fact, shows the horror from blood stains and bullet holes to the eerily quiet

campus. >> reporter: this university has now been opened to the media. we're not allowed into the dormoratories where the al shabaab militants came in at 5:00 a.m. and began to kill 147 people. the silence is deceptive. it's extremely difficult to imagine the absolute horror that must have gone on in these grounds a few days ago. we managed to get inside one of the dorms but have not been allowed to film. the students' belonging are still in the rooms. and there's evidence of the attack. bullet holes and grenade attacks and shrapnel just being spread out across the corridor. this is where they fled. as you see, it's all destruction and also signs of the cleanup. we've got tape at the crime scene, "do not cross." the kenyan military sent a tank in this direction trying to break the dormitory, bullet

holes and broken glass. we're told the terrorist set up sniper positions to try to keep the military out. you still see down here the walkway. blood stains. we understand there are four terrorists on the inside s. that righ right? [ inaudible ] >> reporter: are you saying others might have gotten away? >> it's too early to say that. >> reporter: if you have terrorists holed up in a building like this, what tactics do you use to try and get rid of them when you know there might still be civilians on the inside? >> yes, that's why we have to take a lot of caution. sometimes people ask why did it take so long. remember, they want to make sure that no single person that we are trying to save should go down to bullets. and that's the difference between us and the terrorists because the terrorists don't mind. everybody who died, they don't mind. >> reporter: despite all the

glass and reminders of what happened here, there's simply a sense of detachment about the horror that must have gone on behind the gates. it is perhaps the simple reminders of what actually this place was like before the attack. a university of over 800 students with hopes and dreams for the future now all brutally gone. cnn, garissa, kenya. it is almost ten minutes after 10:00 in the morning in kenya now. in a few hours, mourners are expected to gather in nairobi to honor the 147 people killed. their hash ta tag #-147notjusticeanumber is being used to celebrate their lives. nairobi is in the middle of a three-day blood drive to help the wounded. doctors need more blood for transfusions. officials hope to get 2,000 units by wednesday. within a few hours, the jury

is scheduled to begin deliberating the fate of boston bombing suspect dzhokhar tsarnaev. >> he's accused of detonating bombs with his deceased brothers at the 2013 boston marathon and faces either life in prison or death sentence if convicted. jason carroll takes a closer look at the strategy his defense attorneys hope will spare his life. >> reporter: it's not exactly what one might expect to hear from an attorney defending her client, but judy clark closed her case, basically telling jurors that her client, dzhokhar tsarnaev, is guilty. "we've seen shocking videos, we've seen horrific photos. for this destruction, suffering, and profound loss, there is no excuse. no one is trying to make one." also saying, "dzhokhar tsarnaev stands ready by your verdict to be held accountable for his actions." not making excuses and ready to be held accountable? so what exactly is clark's defense for someone who the

prosecution says brought triemp back yards and main -- terrorism to back yard and main street? she told jurors, "if not for tamerlan, it would not have happened." she argued that dzhokhar tsarnaev was under the influence of his brother. if the jury believes, it it could be enough to save him from the death penalty. a strategy that's worked before. >> a shocking series of shootings in what is normally a quiet area of the capital. >> reporter: october, 2002, the nation's beltway in the grip of fear as random victims are shot by a sniper stalking roadways in the washington, d.c., area. >> really sad to say, but we are not safe anymore. [ sirens ] >> reporter: after ten are killed and several injured, police captured john allen muhammad, 41, and his then-17-year-old accomplice, lee boyd malvo. in the opening statements of malvo's trial, his attorney

immediately admitted guilt say, "we are not sung suggesting that they got the wrong man." he said the 17-year-old's mental health was in question and blamed it on brainwashing saying, "lee malvo was under a degree of indoctrination." it worked. he was spared the death penalty and sentenced to life without parole while mohammed was sentenced to death. he died from lethal injection in 2009. years later from his prison cell, malvo at 27, explained to the "washington post" what it was like living under john allen muhammad's spell as a teenager. >> he told me the old person had to die. lee malvo has to die. >> reporter: tsarnaev's attorney argued during his trial he, too, was under the spell of an older man. but the prosecutor in his rebuttal told jurors don't be distracted by arguments about what his brother did versus what he did. it makes no difference. this is hardly clark's first

tough case. he actually has a history of saving clients accused of heinous acts, including unabomber ted kaczynski and atlanta olympic bomber eric rudolph. jason carroll, cnn, new york. a fraternity at an american university says it plans to take legal action against "rolling stone" magazine over a new-discredited article. it had claimed a female student was gang raped at a fraternity party at the university of virginia. and that fraternity hasn't decided where weather it might file the suit. over the weekend, "rolling stone" published a damning external review of its editorial processes for the article. it found there was no evidence to support the magazine's account, and a key issue was not calling the woman's friends to verify her claims. an uplifting story for you. defending on what you are rooting for, duke blue devil

fans celebrated the championship with a massive bonfire on campus in durham, north carolina. take a look. this is the team's fifth national championship fwhin basketball. duke defeated the wisconsin badgers 68-63 monday in indianapolis. the win toys them with indiana -- win ties them with indiana and north carolina for the third most wins in ncaa championships. all five duke championships have been won under head coach mike krzyzewski who also became the first division one coach to win 1,000 games. congrats to the team. next here on "cnn newsroom," hundreds of firefighters called to the scene after a chemical plant explosion in china. plus, the u.s. government might be monitoring your naked e-mail pictures. former document leaker edward snowden has something to say about that. stay tuned.

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take a look at these incredible images out of china. more than 400 firefighters were called to this explosion at a chemical factory. china's state-run news agency says at least six people were

injured. the facility produces a chemical used to make fiber and plastics, but there's been no report of any toxic spill. the this is the second explosion at the factory in the past two years. turkey has stopped blocking the social media site twitter inside its borders. the ban was lifted when twitter agreed to remove images of an istanbul prosecutor held at gunpoint by militants. >> the istanbul police chief said the prosecutor was killed before police teams entered the room where the hostage crisis was unfolding. a ban on youtube has also been lifted. comedian john oliver scored a big coup for his current events satire show last week tonight. he interviewed edward snowden, the american whistleblower who leaked u.s. government documents it mass surveillance in 2013. oliver conducted the interview in moscow where snowden is living. part serious, part cheeky, they had a frank conversation about

government access to e-mailed images of among other things private parts. take a listen. >> can they see my [ bleep ]? 702 surveillance, can they see my [ bleep ]? >> yes. your wholly domestic communication between you and your wife can go from new york to london and back and get caught up in the data base. >> executive order 12333 peep beep? >> yes. when you send your [ bleep ] through gmail, for example, that's stored on google's servers. google moves data from data center to data center. your data could be moved outside the borders of the united states. >> oh, no. >> when your [ bleep ] was passed by gmail, they caught a copy of that. >> prism? >> prism is how they pull your [ bleep ] out of google with google's involvement. >> upstream? >> upstream is how they snatch your [ bleep ] as a t transits the internet.

>> mystic? >> if you're describing your [ bleep ] on the phone, yes. >> so every beep was their reference to naked selfies, they used a different phrase. we didn't want to broadcast that to you. for more on the unusual interview, i'm joined by cnn correspondent brian selzer from new york. the point was that americans would care about the naked selfies more than drier texts and other information. what do you make of the technique with edward snowden? >> reporter: he was trying to humanize and personalize something that can awfully seem big sometimes. this is an issue that critics of snowden have brought up for the past almost couple of years at this point. it's been almost two years since his initial revelations through journalists, at "the guardian," "washington post" and elsewhere. the story was too big, too broad, and too inaccessible to the audience. what john oliver was trying to do and i think succeeded in doing, was to make it personal by it about naked selfies.

sounds funny. it was funny. but he was able to take a funny thing and make it serious. and that's the genius of john olive and other people like jon stewart, as well, and stephen colbert. these are comedians who are able to do journalistic things without actually being journalists. i think that's why they sought out john oliver as a potential interviewer. >> precisely. edward snowden had seen previous episodes of oliver's show and said he was impressed by the net neutrality coverage. many were. do you think oliver is picking up jon stewart left? many are calling it investigative comedy. >> reporter: yes, this is what a person close to snowden told me. i was trying to figure out why they agreed to have wistheir whistleblower, controversial figure, why did they have snowden sit down with a comedian to oliver? this person close to snowden said, you know, the reason we chose john oliver is because of his journalism. because of that neutrality segment last year. and these other long, 15,

20-minute stories on that oliver does combines comedy and news. not every newscast can be humorous like oliver is. combining the two, he's able to get younger audiences to pay attention to the issues. the reason they're doing the interview now is in a couple of months the congress has to decide whether to reauthorize the patriot act. and some of the specific provisions that allow the mass surveillance. seems to me like snowden is going to be actively campaigning against the reauthorization, and he'll be doing it through a mixture of interviews, public appearances via video conferencing and things like that. you know, to answer your question, i do think john oliver's picking up where jon stewart left off. we've seen oliver innovate on the forum, using the comedy to get people to pay attention to the news. stewart is going to be leaving this year. he's given life to comedians like oliver who are also doing it. >> we know this will get lots of clicks, lots of re-tweets. people will be talking about

this for days. do you think it will have a real impact? you mentioned, the renewal of section 215. that's one controversial aspect of the patriot act coming up on june 1st. is it a long shot to suggest that the interview like this will have any impact? >> reporter: i'm not entirely optimistic about that. and i think what we see in cases like this, snowden has given interviews before. he spoke to brian williams last year in russia, for example, and has given interviews to lots of news outlets in other countries. what we see from polling, it seems that citizens in other countries, in some cases, paid a lot more attention to snowden's revelations than americans have. there might be a lot of reasons for that. maybe it's because it hasn't been personalized the way that john oliver and snowden tried to make it personal by talking about naked pictures. i think the jury's still out. this came on line in a number of hours ago, we will see how many youtube views and clicks it's able to get in the days and weeks to come. i think we're going to see more

of snowden between now and june 1st as mentioned. >> the strategy here will be more humorous with your delivery. brian, we'll have to work on our material, perhaps take our show on the road to get folks to listen to what we do. we've got work to do. brian stelzer there, senior media correspondent talking with us from new york. good to see you. >> good to see you, too. thanks. this is "cnn newsroom." when we come back, saudi forces break for the worst along the yemen border. keel take you there as several factions battle for control. in an exclusive interview, an afghan woman tells cnn why she was forced to marry her rapist. your baby is getting ieven more than clean.t, the scent, the lather, even the tiny bubbles of a johnson's® bath are helping to enhance the experience. the touch of your hands is stimulating her senses. nurturing her mind. and helping her development.

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welcome back, everyone. are you watching "cnn newsroom." i'm rosemary church. >> i'm errol barnett. here are our top headlines right now. kenya has launched air strikes against al shabaab training camps in somalia. this comes days after the militants massacred 147 people at garissa university college near the border. a military source denies it was in retaliation for the attack and said it was part of an ongoing operation against the terrorists. iraqi authorities have uncovered a series of mass graves near the city of tikrit. they may contain up to 1,700 bodies. they are believed to be soldiers, but isis militants executed last june. iraqi forces liberated tikrit from isis last week. fighting is intensifying in yemen among houthis and troops loyal to the deposed president. more than 50 people were reportedly killed on monday in aden bringing the estimated

number of deaths in this conflict to 600. thousands have been forced from their homes, and many are fleeing the country. saudi arabia is also in the fight. it is striking rebel targets and giving refuge to yemen's president. and along the border, the saudi military is at the ready. but there are a lot of competing interests. senior international correspondent, nic robertson, joins me from saudi arabia with more. and what is just incredible in this situation now -- it's been 12 days or so of saudi-led air strikes. the houthi rebels don't seem to have been weakened in any way there in charge. they've pretty much controlled sanaa. and they're heading for aden, pretty much have got that contained, as well. what is happening here? >> reporter: one of the things we know that's happening for sure is there's a humanitarian

disaster looming, particularly in aden. the red cross say that yesterday they were able to get some supplies in to parts of the beleaguered city of a million people. they say water is running out. they're waiting and hoping to get medical supplies into the country. it is a complex situation in aden. but the complexity of it and the risk and fear of houthi attack into saudi arabia here and the unknown element of what could come next is causing saudi authorities here to beef up border security in a way that they haven't had to do here before. we went to take a look. this is what we saw. bone-shaking tracts so steep, saudi security trucks struggle. a slip down the wrong side here lands you in yemen. on the peaks, something new. saudi army and border guards joined forces. here, fresh dug trenches.

servicemen here say houthi attacks are rare, the last one a week ago. commanders say they are getting ready. "when we see them approaching, we treat them as the enemy and protect ourselves. we don't want an incident like what happened to the first martyr." >> reporter: three border guards killed since saudi air strikes over the border began almost two weeks ago. no shortage of expensive top-class new weapons here. it's what's happening beyond this border front line that's less well known. al qaeda, isis, houthis, loyalists to the former president, loyalists to the current president, the army, separatist, people's movements, tribe, it's all competing interests. competing interests in what may be temporary alliances. you only have to look at the most intense fighting in aden to see how that's playing out. several hundred dead.

a humanitarian disaster looming. houthis apparently gaining in a battle for control of the deep water port, attacking saudis first while allies, loyalist to the current president, people's movement, and southern separatists. these allies don't all back the saudis' goal. a united country. if together they can hold the port, saudi reinforcements could land, help defeat the common enemy. the houthis. along the coast, al qaeda defeats the southern separatists. further north, al qaeda kills the enemy of the southern separatists, the houthis. around the capital, saudi planes bomb houthis and their allies. the yemeni army, h.q., loyalist to the former president. across the country, the tribes look out for their own interests, have fluid allegiances. houthis in some places, al qaeda in others. and some support the saudis.

back on the saudi side of the border, things seem simpler, only soldiers and border guards. "we all have one mission here, and we are working hand in hand with the teamer achieve that." sounds easy, but beyond yemen's silent peaks, a multisided war looms where anything can happen. part of the discussion in saudi arabia is when and if ground forces should go in. saudi officials say that remains on the table. they say that the air strikes are going according to plan, are going on the timetable that they have in mind. it does appear on the ground, particularly in aden where we get more information, that the houthis are gaining ground there. the question on the saudi side of the border is, you know, how long do you keep this up? what next? they're saying all according to plan. the question about putting in ground troops is a very

difficult question for any country and particularly here given the complex nature of what's happening inside yemen. going in may be easy, getting out may be much harder. rosemary? >> we've seen it before in other parts of the world. air strikes alone will not bring the situations to a close. nic robertson reporting from saudi arabia. many thanks to you. women's rights activists in afghanistan are facing a significant increase in threats and attacks. according to a new report by amnesty international. this report says female activists are being deliberately targeted and accuses government officials of failing to protect them. the human rights organization is calling now for an investigation. a short time ago, i spoke to amnesty international's secretary general about their report. >> what they're calling for is that all of these need to be dealt with. peaceful attacks need to be

investigated. yes, perpetrators have to be brought to justice because the feeling now is that you can attack women and get away with it and nothing is going to happen. >> and life difficult s difficult for many women in afghanistan. we want to share the story of one woman with you. an afghan woman forced to marry her rapist in order to fit back in to society. >> it is horrifying. her family disowned her. she tells cnn she agreed to the marriage for the sake of history daughter. senior international correspondent nick paton walsh has this exclusive report. >> reporter: this is how one afghan family formed and of women's rights in kabul in 2015. first, this man rapes his wife's cousin. he was convicted and jailed for it. the beautiful girl here whose name means smile is the child from that rape. born in jail because her mother here was charged with adultery under what passes for afghan

justice as her rapist was married. yet, it grew worse still. to be accepted into afghan society again, she had to marry, to marry him, become her rapist's second wife. now things are said to be okay, settled. their third child is on the way. "if i hadn't married her, according to our tradition, she couldn't have lived back in society. her brother didn't want to accept her back. now she doesn't have any of those problems." >> translator: i didn't want to ruin the life of my daughter or leave myself helpless, so i agreed to marry him. we are traditional people. when we get a bad name, we prefer death to living with that name in society. >> reporter: this is a home

built around a crime. the man's first wife lives unseen. where little smile has a home among his seven other children. global uproar led to then-president karzai to pardon her of adultery in 2011. she was offered asylum abroad but was pushed into this deal, living here. he still denies the rape happened, saying she was told to make it up. >> translator: now she's beside me and knows it was not as big as they had shown it. >> translator: no, i am not thinking about it anymore. i don't have a problem with him now, and i don't want to think about the past problems. >> reporter: she did not look at her husband once in our meeting. >> translator: my life is okay, i am happy with my life. it is going on. >> reporter: while he left us to talk alone, he still stands outside. four years ago, she told me she

was raped. now, she backs his story. she says her family would have taken her back -- wouldn't have taken her back until she married him. >> translator: my brothers opposed the marriage and told me to take my daughter and go to pakistan to live with them in sin. now we're married. they disowned me and won't see me again. >> reporter: at 23, can anyone have imagined that their life would have turned out like this? >> translator: no. i couldn't fulfill my wishes in life. i married this man, i cut relations with my family only to buy my daughter's future. >> reporter: global outcry, a presidential pardon, billions of american dollars on women's rights, and still it ends like this. a family built on one act. nick paton walsh, cnn, kabul.

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people in northern chile are picking up the pieces after the driest place on earth was rav e ravaged with deadly floods. meteorologist pedram javaheri joins us again with details and so much rain. you said 14 days? >> 14 years. >> 14 years of rain in one day. >> the desert in chile, a lot of people that are in to meteorology like myself know the name stands out as the single driest place in the world. parts of that area have not seen rain falling in over 400 years. the unpopulated region. then you get into some of the populated cities, 1991, the last time they saw rain fall in the town in northern chile. this particular region, also 1992 the last time they saw royal. you get less than one inch. before and after images -- this

is 250 miles south of where the rainfall came down. the after images in the last few days of what is coming out of the region of chile. remarkable. the river bursting its banks. and of course the terrain there not accustomed to getting any moisture in recent decades getting this rainfall. but you look at some of the driest places on our planet on the western hemisphere, state of california, death valley, always stands out with the 40 millimeters on a good year. about 1.5 inches. in peru, about 2.25 inches of rainfall come down. then you get to the fractional number of arica and in northern chile, that is exactly why this transpired, getting rainfall when they only average .07. they've received one inch in one day. want to talk about california. we know drought has been an issue here, of course. much-needed rainfall coming in to sierra. snow coming in, as well. want to show a graphic. we've touched on the state of california, what they produce as far as the agricultural industry is concerned. and of course, fruits, nuts,

major supplier of it. one pound of shelled almonds, guys, that takes over 2,100 gallons of water to produce. you've got to put a lot of water into the trees year around, one pound of beef, that's 1,800 gallons of water. the 2,100 gallons is a seven-hour shower's worth. and the 1,800 gallons is four hours of running a faucet. the state produces a lot of that rainfall -- >> some their is stuff we don't -- this is stuff we don't realize, the amount of water to concrete and grow things that we consume every day. >> that's right. this one storm coming in will help a lot of people. >> amazing. thanks for breaking that down. appreciate it. >> you bet. u.s. senator rand paul is expected to announce his 2016 presidential campaign today. that would make the republican from kentucky the second member of his party to announce a bid. ted cruz, you'll recall, launched his campaign last month. >> paul released a video on

social media sunday highlighting his political rise over the last two years. it calls him a "different kind of republican leader." paul is a son of former texas congressman ron paul who ran for u.s. president three times. one month from today, voters in the u.k. will cast their ballots in one of the tightest election races in years. >> a recent yougov u.k. poll shows the conservative party and labor neck in neck there. the one-point lead is less than the 3% point margin of error. the u.k. independence party is third in the party with liberal democrats close behind. for more, max foster joins us live from london to talk about this. and max, the big headline people are referencing is tony blair, former u.k. prime minister, and his opinions of who the -- which party should win. what can you tell us? >> reporter: actually, they're

not natural bedfellows because tony blair was all about new labor. and ed miliband, the current leader, is further left. they have many disagreements. a huge risk bringing tony blair into the election campaign. but it's seen as an interesting thing. the one area of agreement they do have is they believe that britain should remain within the european union. and that is at odds with david cameron, the current prime minister here. they say there should be a referendum on britain's position within europe. so very interesting. he's a very divisive figure. not just in the u.k. but around the world, tony blair is. very interesting the labor party's bringing him in. >> what's interesting is we have this televised debate last week. if you look at the polling numbers we've shown, it doesn't necessarily seem to have changed the playing field in a massive way. what do the new poll numbers suggest is happening in the electorate? can we identify trends at this

point? >> reporter: not really because that's what makes it an interesting election. it's just too close to call. all we can see is that the smaller parties are doing very well indeed. so according to some of the polls after the debate, the person who runs the scottish national party, won the debate. there's a lot of stories over the weekend about english people being frustrated that they can't vote for their pick as prime minister. what will her role be if, for example, labor wins the most seats but not enough to run the country? will nicholas surgeon and ed -- nicola surgeon and ed miliband work together? lots of personalities here. conservatives and many protesting david cameron believe the conservative run an outright majority and run in their own right. they're not seeing any polls which are suggesting anything other than a hung parliament. and either labor or conservatives had to deal doo a deal with one of the smaller

parties. the u.k. not doing well, the independence party at the moment. not as well as had been expected. that's interesting move. and maybe a relief for david cameron who is being pushed further right by the success of the u.k. party. >> that's right. he in the past had key words for the u.k. party described as being on thefringe now front and center as you say. it's all about the coalitions and how much partner -- partnerships will need to be made. our max foster with insight on these u.k. elections a month away, live from london. thanks, max. still on things british, people around the world are snapping selfies. one member of the royal family has had enough. that story coming your way in a moment. my advice for healthy looking radiant skin.

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hispanic, but the former florida governor is not. monday the republican tweeted, "my mistake. don't think i fooled anyone." his son also laughed it off using the hash tag, #honorarylatino in a tweet to his dad. selfers, of course, have overtaken the world. everyone from the u.s. president to the pope to us here on the show. >> you do it more than me. prince harry says enough is enough. here's cnn's jeanne moos. >> reporter: it took a prince to put his royal foot down moments after one australian fan tried to sneak a selfie with prince harry. he gently but firmly nixed the request of another. >> no, i hate selfies. seriously, you need to get -- i know you're young, but selfies are bad. >> reporter: did you hear him? finally, finally someone willing to exercise selfie control and just say no to selfies. even the queen has been caught

in selfies, though it's been said her majesty photobombed these two field hockey players. they say they posed where they figured she'd walk by. watch the fan in washington, d.c., make a beeline for prince charles, shake has hand, pose, and celebrate. >> let me take a selfie. >> reporter: no one's immune from the pope to the president and the right is. mr. obama even joked around with a selfer stick as he did some schtick to promote health care. selfies have been around since before they were called selfies. in 1966, buzz aldrin took what may be the first space selfie. back on earth, though still above it, skyscraper selfies are popular. even below ground in a pit of a volcano, george carunis put on a horse mask and snapped a selfer. [ neigh ] >> reporter: from horses to lions, lions to bulls.

this guy was taking selfies during the running of the bulls. >> let me take a selfie. >> reporter: the prince took the bull by the horns and said, "you may not take a selfie." >> just take a normal photograph. >> reporter: when it comes to just say no selfies, the red-headed prince rules. jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >> you never say no to selfies. how about this -- come on, smile, errol. there we go. >> on video mode. that's okay. >> you are watching "cnn newsroom." i'm rosemary church. >> and i'm errol barnett. stay with us. "early start" is next for those of you in the u.s. >> if are you watching elsewhere, another edition of "cnn newsroom" begins after the "cnn newsroom" begins after the break. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

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the race for the white house heating up this morning. republican senator rand paul set to make a major announcement. yemen in crisis. war intensifying in what was once a key ally in the war on terror. a ground assault could soon begin as residents caught in the crossfire try to desperately get out. we are live with the latest. the blue devils on top. duke defeating wisconsin in a thrilling title finish. the big game moves and celebration this morning ahead. good morning. welcome to "early start." i'm christine romans. it it is tuesday, april 7th. 4:00 a.m. in the east. john berman has