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Athlete's fate lies in the hands or will after closing arguments of the judge there. cnn's robin kernow is live with the latest. >> reporter: we were just in court for ten minutes. after four months of being here in pretoria, nearly 4,000 pages of transcripts, also nearly 40 witnesses. it's all over. now we're waiting for those closing arguments, and also i think importantly in those ten minutes there was a very crucial point made by the defense. they said that they had wanted to call more witnesses but that many people refused to testify for oscar pistorius because they were scared of having ...

Backed up by the person that analyzed the door. in other words, did they beat the door with the cricket bat first, what were the sequence of the shots, all of this is going to be important. because right now, we don't know where the state is in saying, was the cricket bat first, was the gunshot first. of course, this is all going to link in. and it's like building a puzzle. and once all the pieces are in place, we'll have the puzzle. >> it will be fascinating to see that play out. lori peterson, live for us in south africa. thank you for that. and also want to remeend our audience that you can...

Unprecedented public memorial service. this is likely the largest gathering of world leaders. bigger than the funeral of pope john paul ii. bigger than winston churchill. no place has hosted this many presidents, princes and prime ministers at once. president obama, three former u.s. presidents. the head of more than 90 other nations will be here paying their respects to a man who transformed south africa from a pariah into a modern nation with a place on the world stage. it's 10:30 here in johannesburg. 3:30 on the east coast of the united states. we welcome all your viewers in the u.s. and a...

Children, to show him who this man was and what we must be in order to carry on his legacy. >> reporter: you know, everybody has a different reason for feeling close to, for feeling sad about the death of nelson mandela, but really don't underestimate what he did for this country in terms of knitting it together. more than 20 years ago this country really was on the brink of civil war. it was unclear how things would progress, and it was nelson mandela's very steady, very wise, very calm leadership that enforced reconciliation and forgiveness, that really changed the history, the path of this ...

Bachman was bragging, that perhaps it was inappropriate, the fact remains that these reserves are set aside for hunting. they're professional hunters that often accompany hunters from the united states. big game hunter who's pay a lot of money to these reserves. sometimes these reserves even have lions for hunting. to there's those kind of examples. there there is this sort of balance. are they threatened, are they endangered in they're not under their endangered spies list in terms of being critically endangered. of course, lions and many african animals are under threat specifically because ...