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i'm natalie allen and this is "cnn newsroom." our top story, new details about hush money paid by u.s. president donald trump's lawyer to silence porn star stormy daniels. "the new york times" reports the president actually knew about the payment several months before telling reporters aboard air force one he knew nothing about it. and "the wall street journal" is now reporting in the midst of the 2016 presidential election, trump's personal lawyer michael cohen took out lines of credit on two properties totalling some $774,000. cohen now under criminal investigation because of his business dealings and that could include hush money payments to daniels, possibly others. cohen said he made the payment to daniels out of his home equity line. cohen is not the only trump attorney under scrutiny. many legal analysts say rudy

giuliani's blizzard of statements over the past few days may have done the president more harm than good. for more on that, cnn's brian todd is in washington. >> don't you think a lot of these people would pay that? >> reporter: sources familiar with president trump's legal team tell cnn the team is angry with giuliani. one source complaining that giuliani's media blitz this week was a, quote, s show. another saying the president's lightning rod new legal adviser is pouring fuel on the stormy daniels case. giuliani seemingly off the off remarks could have gotten the president in more legal trouble. like when giuliani highlighted how important it might have been to the trump campaign to keep daniels quiet about the alleged affair before the 2016 election. >> imagine if that came out on october 15th, 2016, in the middle of the last debate with hillary clinton. cohen made it go away. he did his job. >> reporter: a headache for trump and his lawyers because they've always contended the

daniels payment was a personal expense and wasn't made to influence the election. >> that statement by rudy giuliani does suggest that it was related to an election. if it's related to an election, then it may be an in kind contribution, and it may also need to be reported. >> reporter: and in federal election commission documents, trump never reported the daniels payment but a former trump lawyer says giuliani's comment doesn't imply trump and michael cohen broke fec rules. >> because it has an outcome that could have a political impact doesn't mean there's an fec violation because there has to be some coordination with the campaign. there's been no facts that have shown that to date. >> reporter: experts say giuliani talked about trump paying back cohen. >> he was definitely reimbursed. no doubt about it. >> reporter: giuliani said trump didn't start secretly paying cohen back until months after the election. in the interim, trump never reported what he owed cohen. >> the president is supposed to disclose on his personal

financial disclosure form any debts that he owes to other people. >> reporter: even the president acknowledged giuliani might have made some mistakes in his interviews. >> rudy had just started, and he wasn't totally familiar with everything. >> reporter: giuliani hasn't specifically addressed the criticism that he made trump's legal situation worse with his comments to the media. giuliani did issue a statement reiterating the payment to stormy daniels was not a campaign expenditure and earlier, he told cnn his comments to the media were coordinated with the president and said there's no daylight between him and trump. brian todd, cnn, washington. long before he worked for the trump presidential campaign, paul manafort had business dealings that have now resulted in federal charges including bank fraud. but a federal judge on friday seemed unimpressed by the case against manafort. he accused special counsel robert mueller's team of going after manafort only to get to president trump. for more, here's cnn's jessica

schneider. >> reporter: a federal judge seemed to reprimand the special counsel's teams in their case against paul manafort. so federal judge t.s. ellis even lost his temper at times friday morning while he expressed his doubt that the special counsel is acting within its scope or even properly following its mandate. paul manafort is facing 18 counts, including bank fraud in federal court in virginia. that's on top of the counts he faces in washington. so the criticism from his lawyers is that these charges, they don't relate to the campaign and, therefore, they just go too far for the special counsel. so judge ellis, who is a reagan appoint he, he echoed some of those concerns. he said this in court. he said you don't really care about mr. manafort's bank fraud, the judge told the special counsel's team. instead, the judge said the special counsel was only interested in manafort because of what he could provide that would lead to the president's,

quote, prosecution or impeachment. the judge continued to say that's what you're really interested in. the judge also continued to say, we don't want anyone in this country with unfettered power. it's unlikely you're going to persuade me the special prosecutor has the power to do anything he or she wants. the american people feel pretty strongly that no one has unfettered power. so, of course it was friday morning. hearing on paul manafort's motion to dismiss the virginia case because he does contend the special counsel went too far in charging him with crimes that don't directly relate to the campaign. the judge will rule on that at a later date. the judge will be getting access to an unredacted august 2017 memo from deputy attorney general rod rosenstein, and it spells out the special counsel's authority. so the memo will remain sealed, and only the judge will be able to see it, but that will, no doubt, cast more light for the judge on how broadly the special counsel's powers are as to what they can investigate and,

remember, that this is the memo that explicitly said the special counsel could examine paul manafort's lobbying work in ukraine and notably, whether manafort himself colluded with russian government officials during the 2016 campaign. jessica schneider, cnn, washington. ellis hannagan is a political analyst with metro papers. he joins us from paris to talk about these developments. thanks for being with us. >> hey, natalie. good to see you. >> despite the president's denials it appears he did know about the payment to ms. daniels months before this moment on an airplane in april. let's revisit it. >> did you know about the $130,000 payment to stormy daniels? >> no, no. >> what else? >> why did michael cohen make that? >> you have to ask michael cohen. michael is my -- an attorney and you'll have to ask michael cohen. >> do you know where he got the

money to make that payment? >> i don't know, no. >> so the president there caught in a blatant untruth. how could this hurt him? >> if you say one thing in april and something different in may, it goes from no to yes, one of them has to be wrong. there's so many ways it can hurt him. talking about campaign finance issues, any sort of contribution, frankly, of any sort. even an in-kind contribution, whether legal or not, certainly needs to be reported. none of this was reported. investigators are all over cohen's financial dealings. i would say it's -- there are about seven land mines planted here. >> there's also more news. "the wall street journal" broke the news just hours ago, cohen had much more cash on hand during the campaign beyond that $130,000. he maneuvered to get access to as much as $774,000 in cash.

we don't know what that was for but could be interesting since he's being investigated for his business dealings, including access to cash that would involve hiding negative information about donald trump, right? >> you are absolutely right. and the question is, what was cohen so desperate for money about right at that time? maybe there's some other payments that we don't yet know about. but we know that he took out a hloc, a home equity line of credit on a piece of property he owned. his wife's parents signed over an apartment in one of the trump buildings in new york to him enabling him to get yet more cash. clearly there was some urgent need for money at that time and we don't know why, but, boy, we'd sure like to know. >> we might know that soon. meantime, his new lawyer rudy giuliani goes on fox, kind of lets the cat out of the bag saying yes the president reimbursed his lawyer for the payment but it's legit. no campaign finance laws broken. so friday we heard the president say, look it was giuliani's

first day on the job. he got his facts wrong. and then as the president often does, he admonishes the media for getting its facts wrong. why can't the president's legal team stay focused on a controlled message that is so serious to his presidency? >> it's perplexing. i've got to tell you. i don't have an answer to that. rudy is a loose cannon. those of white houus who coverer the years in new york, he comes on strong but there doesn't seem to have been any coordination, although it's funny. trump seems to be backing up most of what giuliani said. while some of the other attorneys and folks at the white house have tried to backpedal. the president, i think rudy is right there is no daylight between them on the central facts here with cohen. i think you're right about that. >> as someone put it, seems like they're twisting themselves into a pretzel there at the white house with all of this. >> i like that. a new york pretzel. >> you can even picture it,

can't you? >> put some mustard on it. >> friday wasn't great for the mueller investigation because of what was said by a judge in the paul manafort bank fraud case. manafort was on mr. trump's campaign team. judge t.s. ellis said this to a prosecutor in court. we don't want anyone in this country with unfettered power. it's unlikely you're going to persuade me the special prosecutor has power to do anything he or she wants. he told the prosecutor there. the american people he said feel pretty strongly no one has unfettered power. what does that signal? this was a very angry judge. apparently lost his temper over it in court. >> it does sound so. and this -- let's be clear. this is a piece of good news for the trump team who have not received so many pieces of good courtroom news lately. it may not be the final word on this. there is an entire different legal proceeding against manafort that's going on in washington, d.c., while judge

ellis sits in virginia. and they are focusing on different parts. the ukraine stuff is mostly in washington, and other things are in virginia. so, yes, the government was admoni admonished. mueller was told, hang on a second. your authority isn't universal here. but let's don't assume that this in some way genuinely threatens the core of the investigation against manafort. it does seem to be a whole lot there. but, yeah, smiles on the trump team in virginia, for sure. >> all right. it's stories are just zinging all over the place right now. we thank you, ellis henican. appreciate your thoughts. president trump spent friday with a frndly crowd at the annual meeting of the national rifle association. he tweeted thanks to all our friends and patriots at the nra. mr. trump also promised to protect their second amendment right to bear arms. in his speech, he told a crowd their gun rights will never be under siege as long as he is in

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that is the sound of a volcanic eruption in action. plumes of hot lava and rock being thrown up in the air like a fountain. cnn captured this video in a neighborhood in hawaii that is under mandatory evacuation. and for people living on the east coast of hawaii's big island, it's been a day of anxiety. six volcanic fissures upped up in a neighborhood shooting lava and steam into the air. the power has been cut, and residents say they can smell sulphur dioxide, a toxic gas. the government has declared a state of emergency and ordered nearly 2,000 people to leave. on top of all this, hundreds of earthquakes shook the island this week, including a strong 6.9 tremor, the strongest to hit hawaii in decades. visitors to the area are also being brought to safety. more than 2,500 are being taken from the hawaii volcanoes

national park. yes, it is a visitors destination. but it is now closed. as our stephanie elam reports from hawaii, that park is home to a volcanic crater at the center of all of this. >> reporter: volcanic eruptions spewing moeltsen rock, ash and gases onto hawaii's big island. the eruption stemming from a series of cracks in the rift zone miles from the kilauea volcano. video from earlier this week shows walls of smoke billowing as the wall collapses, leaving behind a red rocky surface similar to that of mars. with gaping holes giving us a glimpse of the liquid orange magna smoldering below. and this time lapse shows gushing rivers of lava flowing as night turns to day. residents are fleeing from their homes as forests burn and roads break open. >> you can feel the heat coming from the ground.

yeah, there's heat coming up out of this. >> reporter: the sulphur dioxide levels are extremely dangerous. more than 700 structures and 1700 people are within the mandatory evacuation area. >> now we have about 100 people up here at the facility at the shelters. we just got another wave of them that got evacuated because the volcano is erupting more up on the street. >> lava is coming out in lelani so this is real. >> reporter: at the center of the activity lays leilani estates. a resident captured this lava fountain shooting over 100 feet into the air. >> we came don the road and heard a boom. what is that? and then all of a sudden, you smell the sulphur dioxide. we knew something was happening. within minutes, we see smoke, and now we see all this lava coming across the street and it's pumping right now. this fissure is opening up, and

this is our next eruption. >> reporter: the eruptions are part of a massive geological event set off by the collapse of the pua oa collapse. the jolts continued to jolt the big island. >> it's unpredictable. we don't know which way the lava is going to flow, and we are planning actively for every contingency that we can think of. >> that's stephanie elam there on hawaii for us. the governor of hawaii is urging all people and planes to stay away from the area. >> we've issued an faa order closing the air space around the eruption site so they won't be able to come to look at the eruption. we would encourage visitors to stay away from the punauary. the rest of the island is open for visitors and, clearly, on the west side, and hilo banyan drive is still continuing to operate with no impact.

we're joined on the phone by michael hale, one of the many people forced to relocate. thanks for talking with us. we know this is a difficult time for you. where are you now, and how are you and your family holding up? >> we've relocated. we're in volcano village now, which is many miles from where our house is. and a bit safer. i experienced -- they were not there for most of the quakes, so i'm watching quakes on usgs and just continually nervous. i've got a little bit of pst going on, i think. >> just from the trauma of what you've been experiencing? >> yep. >> so you're in what's called volcano village. that doesn't sound safe, does it, but -- >> it doesn't. >> i certainly hope it is. while you're talking, we're looking at the lava that's just

bubbling up from the ground. did you see this? did you experience? did you smell it? >> yeah, we smelt it, heard it. i saw the smoke. we didn't actually -- i didn't see the glow. it was basically on the street when we were there, it was on the street and a half away from our backyard. i have a house that we live in and then a rental house on the same block. and it was closer actually when i ran over to the other house to tell the guest that, hey, you have to get out. they're in their shorts and such. i was like, you've got to go now. they didn't even know what was going on. but they got out. i texted with them afterward about an hour later and made sure they were gone. but, yeah, you could hear it. it was like rumbling rocks and explosions and big cloud when it first was happening.

>> how long have you lived in hawaii, and have you ever experienced anything like this? >> i've been here 20 years, and in that house 20 years. almost 20 years, 19 or something. and, no, nothing experienced like this. you've heard stories about where else it goes, but you never think it's going to be right there because it's always been so steadil iily over at the oth place and flowing so nicely except for the four years ago when it decided to change direction. that was kind of a surface top flow. so we were able to watch where it was going kind of constantly. it was a different kind of watch. this one is kind of like coming up from wherever it wants to come. >> yes, that's kind of a creepy feeling, isn't it, the way it's working there. and they don't know which way the lava may go next. are you prepared to be evacuated

for some time? >> yeah. sort of. i mean, luckily, i have a lot in pahoa that doesn't have anything on it. you know, worst case scenario, we'll set up some tents there. i know some of my living partners in my house, they help me manage the place, they are staying on that lot now in pahoa town. they have some vans that they're sleeping in. and i know that right around the corner from there, there's the pahoa center where they have some beds and cots for people, too. so that's kind of like depending on how long this goes, you know, kind of had my eggs in one basket, taking a risk. >> right. >> and two houses in the same lava zone, i guess. and it almost paid off. >> oh, my goodness. well, hope that when you get back, your houses are okay.

two houses almost paid off. we hear your pain there for sure, michael. and we'll be thinking of you and maybe we'll talk with you again to find out that you're okay when and if you do get to go back home. thank you for spending time with us, michael hale. good luck to you. >> aloha. >> aloha. how about his story? two houses in the area almost paid off. >> incredible stuff. reminds me of folks that are in the path of a hurricane, too. how they don't know if their home is going to be there. for me it is much easier to track a hurricane. i can see it. i know where it's going. for them, it's just impossible here because it's going underground here. so it just depends on where the next crack, the next fissure pops up with lava and nasty stuff. >> that picture is amazing. >> let's talk about it. folks are still out there, natalie, taking pictures of, well, what some are describing

as an unprecedented event. the incident back in 2014. but that was an above-ground flow. this is under ground. by the way, that steam you see there is not what you want to be breathing in. sulphur dioxide in there. and that can take hold in just a few minutes. like inhaling ammonia if that's ever happened to you by accident. similar conditions and you just run out of breath. your lungs get irritated. look at all the activity. this is a swarm of earthquakes. upwards of 500 earthquakes have been occurring across the eastern part of the big island as a result of the volcano. about 2 1/2 to 3 magnitude and then the big ones as well on thursday. 5.0 and a 6.9 friday. that was the strongest earthquake they've had since 1975 in hawaii. additional quakes will continue over the next several days. back to volcanology school. there's the magma at the earth's

crust. it continues to build up. we get fissures, cracks. like a pressure cooker. the cracks allow for the venting but the rocks begin to break up and that causes the tremors. that continues as well and then the big show up with the lava and the toxic fumes and that will continue over the next several days as we talk more about the ongoing effects here. yeah, earthquakes, additional fissures, toxic fumes, sulphur dioxide. they've evacuated upwards of 1700 folks to get them out of the way because they don't know, the usgs, they don't know where the next fissure is going to pop up. >> that just doesn't look good for the island, does it? ivan, thank you. >> tense days. >> we know you'll stay on top of it. u.s. president trump says a date has been set for his meet with the north korean leader.

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keep quiet about her alleged affair with mr. trump. on hawaii's big island, lava continues to erupt from deep cracks in the streets of a neighborhood 30 kilometers from the kilauea volcano. there are also high levels of toxic gas. and this comes after one week of near constant earthquakes, including the strongest tremor to hit the state in decades. the head of air france is resigning from his job after losing a crucial vote to end weeks of intermittent strikes. employees overwhelm league rejected the company's offer of a 2% pay raise, far short of the 5% the unions were asking for. israel says more protests broke out friday along its border with gaza. it says palestinians set fire to part of a border crossing and that pipes carrying fuel to gaza were damaged. friday marks six weeks since palestinians started their so-called march of return protests. we're learning more about

u.s. president trump's upcoming meetings with the leaders of north and south korea. the white house says south korean president moon jae-in will visit washington on may 22nd. during an event in dallas with the national rifle association, mr. trump said the time and location are set for his meeting with kim jong-un and will be announced soon. he also said he would dial back some of the tough language he's used against the north korean leader in the past. >> i won't use the rhetoric. now i'm trying to calm it down a little bit. so i'm not going to use the rhetoric. but let's -- he goes, use it. >> meantime, the fate of these three american detainees held by north korea remains unclear. a source with knowledge of the negotiations told cnn their release was iminent and president trump said we'd learn more soon. >> a lot of things have already happened with respect to the

hostages, and i think you're going to see very good things. as i said yesterday, stay tuned. >> mr. trump's comments come as north korea has officially adjusted its clock 30 minutes forward to be in the same time zone as south korea. our alexandra field joins us from seoul with more about that and perhaps what's next in this meeting between the u.s. and north korea. hello. >> reporter: hi there, natalie. you heard the president say that the time has been fixed. the location has been set. none of that has been revealed. it's not clear why that hasn't been revealed but certainly there's reason to speculate this could be held at the dmz. all sides talking about the possible benefits of having a summit there similar to the one held between north korea and south korea at the dmz. but many are speculating it could be in singapore. a more neutral location. it would appear less conciliatory than for the president to travel all the way to the dmz.

another big question is whether or not those three american detainees will, in fact, be released. bizarre turn when rudy giuliani announced the prisoners would be released on thursday. thursday came. thursday went. the men weren't released. now the national security council says it has no update on the possible release but sources close to the administration say that the administration remains confident that the detainees will, in fact, be released before that summit happens. it's widely regarded that would be a show of good faith, an act of good will on behalf of north korea in advance of that summit that could take place, perhaps at the end of the month. that was the initial timeline given but we're still waiting to find out the exact date. >> truly amazing how fast and furious these positive developments are occurring. now we hear there could even be flights between the two koreas? >> it would certainly be a big step forward.

it's something that a u.n. aviation committee is going to investigate this week. they'll be traveling here to the peninsula to look at a proposal that was made by north korea back in february when we started to see tensions falling on the peninsula. that's when north korea sent their olympic team to the olympics which were held in south korea. it was a major breakthrough in terms of the diplomatic situation here on the peninsula. north korea has proposed a route that would travel between pyongyang and incheon, south korea. aviation officials say they're still considering it and this u.n. committee will be looking at various navigation and safety issues. certainly a major step forward. it would come on the heels of another significant step that north korea has taken which is to adjust their time zone, setting their clocks half an hour forward to be in sync with seoul. state media saying that's one step closer to becoming one korea, one north korea and one south korea together. so they are lauding this as a significant measure of progress there. natalie? >> it certainly is.

alexandra field for us. thank you. some 90,000 hondurans in the u.s. now face deportation. this after the trump administration decided to end the protected status of immigrants who came to the u.s. after a 1998 hurricane in honduras. they will have 18 months to make other arrangements to stay in the u.s. or leave the country. one california union leader said conditions in their home country are worse than when they left two decades ago. >> the 57,000 hondurans that trump wants to kick out of the u.s. are potentially going back to a country that today is significantly more dangerous for women, for indigenous, for lgbtq and for other minorities than it was at the time that they first left and got temporary protective status. we should need to say no more than the member -- that they are members of our community, and

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this is his stronghold sunni west beirut where he is received more like a rock star than a politician. since becoming prime minister for a second time in 2016, he has managed to bring relative stability to an often deeply divided country. >> what i did two years ago is reunited the country around the political consensus. >> reporter: his consensus involved forming a government that included ministers from iranian-backed hezbollah. it was a marriage of convenience that didn't please everyone, particularly his saudi backers, but lebanon has been spared a significant spillover of the violence from neighboring syria. and for a country with vivid memories of its own 15-year civil war, that is no small achievement. >> this is lebanon's first election in nine years. the question is, will all the new voters go for the old

politicians or try something new. lebanon's interior minister is a close political ally of hariri. he recognizes the times are a-changing. >> when you have 800,000 new voters, you have to change your attitude. you cannot do the same like before. because they will not accept. >> reporter: a new election law has opened the door to more independent candidates. many eager to shake off lebanon's legacy of sectarian politics. doumit lacks the resources to run a flashy campaign, but he has plenty of energy and a group of dedicated supporters. don't we want new people, he asked a possible voter. impatient, like the drivers in the congested streets, he wants to rip power from the old elite. >> we want to take our country

back. we lost it for the last 50 years in the hands of people who don't want to improve it. >> reporter: lebanese voters are faced with a mind-boggling array of choices. politics here is a confusing kaleidoscope of religions, clans, parties and personalities. ranging from the likes of hezbollah whose dedicated supporters carried on their rally in a downpour of rain and hail, to the likes of a civil society candidate running in the mountains above beirut. she is 1 of 86 women running for parliament this year. seven times more than in 2009. >> more women are educated, more women are employed, more women are financially independent, more women are single. there is a shift demographically. >> reporter: just one shift in a country where change may come one leaflet at a time.

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>> reporter: 5:30 a.m. a single digit dawn in south dakota. kristi noem's daily ritual, her path to make history, running to be the first woman governor of south dakota. >> one thing they're known for, the smokey bar, the late night drinks. >> for me, i'm married. it's not a good testimony for me to be sitting in a bar late at night when my family is all the way across the country. i started thinking out of the box. how can i get to have interaction with other members? for me it's the gym. we exercise together but also talk about legislation. >> how are you doing, huh? >> reporter: breaking the norm. hardly new for the conservative congresswoman boorn, raised and still ranch or the 6,000 family plot. >> we've had cattle and horses and raised our family here so we'll always be here.

>> reporter: she made the leap to state lawmaker and then went to congress. despite her success, this is what she heard as she announced her historic run for governor. >> i had a few people tell me that maybe i didn't have the right body parts to be a governor. so, you know -- >> really? >> yeah, but it's a small minority of folks that we just have to change their perspective. i said that's unfortunate, but we're going to win. you all have come alongside me over and over and over again. >> how are you doing? >> reporter: noem is as uncommon here as she is in washington. republican women make up about 10% of congress. the unprecedented surge of them running for office this year has been almost completely among democrats. >> it is sad. it is depressing, and the numbers are getting worse. >> reporter: ileana ross lehtinen has represented south florida for nearly three decades. gender diversity is an after thought for house leadership.

she's retiring this year, leaving with this ominous message for her party. >> just stop with the name calling. it turns women off. >> do you look at the white house? >> absolutely. >> the rhetoric coming out of the white house is a recruiting tool for liberal women to come out and counter that. and as long as we are a party that is seen as homogeneous, not heterogeneous, a party that doesn't invite minorities and women, we're not going to be a welcoming party for the future. the growth for gop women in elective office is at the local level and state capitals. >> reporter: why this year are a record number of women saying they can run in government? >> i think it's all about not missing an opportunity. timing is everything in politics. >> reporter: congresswoman noem's time may be now. she's regarded as the front-runner. pledging to govern with the innovation of a national lawmaker and the transparency of a local farmer. >> this is about a million miles

from d.c. this is as far -- i live two totally different lives. that is very true. >> you prefer a tractor to an airplane? >> i do. you have control over your own destiny. >> reporter: a path she hopes to forge at home. kyung lah, cnn, castlewood, south dakota. >> first time i've seen a female interview another female in a tractor. pretty cool. prince harry and meghan markle will tie the knot in two weeks. what role the bride's parents will play in the ceremony just ahead. e. new oat delicacy, by whole blends. a caring formula. blended with oat milk and rice cream extracts. intensive moisture for hair. without the weigh down. only from whole blends. garnier.

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kilograms of cargo as well as technological and biological studies that were performed on the iss. britain's royal wedding is just two weeks away, may 19th. but let's look back to where prince harry and meghan markle got to know each other, at a quiet retreat in botswana. here's linda kinkade. >> reporter: their was cemented in botswana. they visited this country shortly after meeting in july 2016. it's also been revealed they went there in august last year for meghan's 36th birthday, just months before harry proposed. although kensington palace have never confirmed their destination. they stayed at a lodge which means mother of rain. the $800 a night isolated retreat is located in the archivengo delta. the couple slepts in a

traditional thatched cabin, took a sunset cruise, went fishing and spent time enjoying the african wilderness. word is they were even served a three-course meal under an ancient tree. >> botswana is still a nice testination to go to where you're not bothered by paparazzi and stuff because you're far from everything and everyone. >> reporter: that's one of the reasons the country is popular with celebrities who want to get away. pots ju botswana has roughly three people per square kilometer. with its lush landscape and incredible wildlife, no wonder it's been key to their blossoming romance. the diamond on meghan's engagement ring even came from botswana, one of the world's largest diamond producers. botswana holds a special meaning for prince harry. he first visited at age 13 after

his mother died. he's also a patron of the charity rhino conservation botswana. linda kinkade, cnn. we're getting more details about the royal marriage ceremony. the bride's parents will have key roles. meghan markle's mother will ride with her to windsor castle for the ceremony. that's her mother to her right there. then her father will walk her down the chapel aisle. markle will not have a maid of honor. as for the groom, prince harry wants his late mother's side of the family involved in the ceremony. diana's older sister is expected to give a reading. afterwards, the couple will not go on an immediate honeymoon. they'll return to work with some public engagements. and that is "cnn newsroom." i'm natalie allen. for u.s. viewers "new day" is next. for everyone else, stay with us for "amanpour." (vo) dogs have evolved,

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