zuma also faces multiple charges including fraud, racketeering and corruption relating to an arms deal when he was deputy president. he denies the charges. pope francis is in the hospital recovering from surgery for colin diver tick litis. the vatican announced the scheduled procedure on sunday before he went in for the surgery. the 84-year-old pope addressed thousands of people in st. peters square for his regular sunday blessing. john allen joins us now from rome. the good news, of course, this was scheduled surgery, which of course takes the whole emergency sense out of this. but what more are you learning about the pope s surgery and how it all went? reporter: hi there, rosemary. well, late last night the vatican told us that the surgery had gone well, that pope francis responded well to the surgery.