For Malaysia Airline flight 370 flight 370. A fourth week begins for one of the biggest aviation mysteries of all time. A new search area is focused in the indian ocean. It is 1,000 kilometers from the original search area. In fact, take a look at this image. It was captured by a new Zealand Military plane on friday. Aired on Chinese Television. Shows an unidentified object that the ship will attempt to locate and take aboard. Meantime, the Chinese Official News Agency says the aircraft spotted three, quote, suspicious objects in the indian ocean. The acting minister made a comment of hope. He made that statement after meeting with families of passengers. I understand the appeal and peace for the family and hoping against hope, no matter how remote, of course, we are praying and we are going to continue our search for the possible survivors. But what they want is a commitment on our part to continue the search and that i have given not only on behalf on the malaysian government, but so many nations involved in this sea and air operations. Lets bring in paula newton. She is live in perth, australia. The base of the massive operation and search. Paula, this, we cannot forget three weeks in, this is still a huge search. Give us a sense of the assets are out and which are back and what we know at this hour. Reporter well, we just moments ago had an aircraft, this one a p3 orien. They went out to search the area and they search the top of the ocean from about 500 feet up. What is most crucial now, errol, is the flotilla of ships that will arrive at the search zone later tonight. Their search will not begin until tomorrow morning. What is key is that what these airplanes behind me have been spotting from the air, they will now be able to scope out the area and be able to look. Some of the debris spottings and locate it and perhaps investigate it and retrieve it and by it on board, that is when we will know, errol, if they are in the final resting place. That is what makes it difficult for the families and officials. You have tony abbott, the prime minister, saying people should not underestimate how challenging it is. You get the sense this is wearing on everybody as much and they are trying as best they can. Reporter it is. Especially everyone has the families in mind and know how difficult it is. We have no physical evidence at this point. Errol, in terms of them changing the site search, it has triggered a new phase of the operation. A great deal of confidence they are on to something. I can tell you the Australian Naval ship will be deploying tomorrow. Three australian investigators will be on that ship. What does that mean . It will take them several days to get to the site. They are there, ready, as specialists to look at the pieces of the wreckage that everyone is hoping they will find and begin the first steps of the real investigation here. All of what they are doing now factors in to all of the information gathered over the past three weeks. There is a sense possibly officials are getting close. Paula newton is live in perth, australia. You know, malaysias acting transport minister is hoping for survivors. He spoke to journalists in kuala lumpur. Lets do to Paula Hancocks now. Paula, each day, he seems to get more exhausted. He is saying it is not unreasonable for families to ask for hope, but as i was just saying to our paula newton in australia, this must be wearing on everybody by now. Reporter absolutely. Certainly it is the hardest for the families and relatives of the passengers on board. We are three weeks now and still there is no physical evidence. They are just waiting for any information now. We know the acting transportation minister met with families saturday at the hotels where some of them are holed up. We understand from the private meeting, the families were asking that even if their loved ones were not alive, they are dead, they want guarantees that the authorities will continue to search for them. This is what the transportation minister said to them. He said, i give you a guarantee that the malaysian government and other countries involved in the search will continue to look for your loved ones. He also said that some still held out some hope. Of course, they would hold out hope until they have the physical evidence that he spoke to reporters afterwards. Lets listen to exactly what he said. Miracles do happen. Remote or otherwise. That is the hope that the family members want me to convey to not only to the malaysian government and to the world at large. If it means our prayers, thats not very difficult request, is it . Reporter he also said if there is a remote chance, they will continue to search for survivors. He said this is a search and rescue operation still and he also said that he wanted to make sure the lines of communication with Malaysia Airlines has been smoother. There has been criticism from the families. They dont believe they are getting all of the Information Available to the authorities. Errol. The authorities are saying, we just dont have anymore information, but indeed, families have been through such a grueling three weeks. That is our Paula Hancocks there in kuala lumpur. We want to cross back to perth, australia where we can show you the aircraft. Aircraft have been on regular rotation to the search area of western australia. This is the pierce Australian Air base in perth. Our ken was up in the planes and said they identified objects visibly from the window. Until they can confirm what they are seeing from the air is, in fact, debris from mh370, all of this debris is speculation. We will continue to bring you any developments in the missing Malaysia Airline search. There are many stories we are following for you on cnn. There are differing accounts about what was discussed in a tv call with the russian and u. S. President s on the crisis in ukraine. The white house says Vladimir Putin committed to working to a solution to the crisis, but the kremlin says mr. Putin expressed concern for the safety of ethnic russians in ukraine and moldova. Tens of thousands of Russian Troops amassed along russias border with ukraine. Rescue crews are digging through the muck and mud in the landslide in the United States state of washington. 17 have been declared dead, but a number of other bodies discovered in the wreckage. They have not been recovered yet. The landslide covers 2. 5 square kilometers and some of the mud is 10 to 12 meters thick. Officials in los angeles say an earthquake there did know significant damage, but there were minor injuries. The 5. 1 magnitude quake was followed by aftershocks. Nothing serious. Several water mains did break in one community. Disneyland shutdown during the quake. This was l. A. s second earthquake in two weeks. Our coverage of missing Malaysia Airline flight 370 continues after the break. Jets seen in the new search area. How likely is it the two are connected . Two dozen countries helping in the search. Many putting aside old rivalries to continue in the search. That story next. Heres the latest information in to cnn. China state News Agency Reports that chinese aircraft are spotting three suspicious objects while searching for missing Malaysia Airline flight 370. The search area has been moved closer to the australian coast. No word if it is part of the missing plane that disappeared three weeks ago. Tom forman takes a look at the variables that make the search difficult. Reporter this is one of the problems that is troubling to investigators. How do you not know you are not taking photographs or satellite images of the same thing . How do you know the satellite image from here is not connected to the same debris photographed by an airplane up there . Part of it has to do with distance and time. This is 700 miles. Over the period of days were talking about here, five or six days, it would be very difficult for something to naturally follow that path. Normally debris is moving out a half mile or a mile an hour. On a busy day, two or three or four, but not so much in a straight line. You need to get between four or five miles an hour for it to cover that distance in the time allotted. This is probably not connected to the other debris. If you figure out this is standalone debris that is connected to the plane, that is just the first part of the mystery. Because then you have to look at where did it come from . Where did it originate . If you spread a grid on the water and mark the grid where the search area was and narrow it down to where you found the debris to create a single point out there, you then have to expand the field enormously over this amount of time over more than 20 days, to figure where it came from. Because the drift patterns could be very complicated. Frankly, i dont know how you put together an algorythm here. You can try. To actually lead you to the bulk of the plane is a tall, tall order. Lets bring in our meteorologist Karen Macginnis now. You said there are good conditions for the weekend, but the window is closing here . Yes, errol, we were hopeful this weather would cooperate for the aviators and those on the open waters. Yes, we have seen that Weather Window has really held nicely. The next 24 hours look good. Really start to deteriorate as we go late in the day on sunday. Here is the approximate area they are searching. Yes, just right to the northwest of that, thats where we are watching another area where potentially some of that moisture moves in. The winds kick up. We start to see the lower visibility. Now, these airplanes that they have in the skies, the p3 and p8, they can fly at fairly low altitude and now they have the extra window, less time getting to the site that they are searching from yesterdays credible leads as it was said, they have a little bit more time to investigate this area with the Aviation Fuel they have on board. However, they just cant do that when the wind is a problem and visibility is a problem. Here is that disturbance and some of that moisture that is going to filter in across the southern half and the western half of the search area, which is equivalent to the size of the country of poland. If you can imagine, they take off from here and search area and go back to refuel. It is quite the operation and if they have those waves that are kicking up, reduced visibility and wind that kicks up, errol, it is just more time that they have to spend looking for something. Back to you. All right. Karen, thanks very much. This search for the missing Malaysian Airlines has brought together several countries that are typically at odds with one another. They are working together now, but once the search is over, so will be the cooperation. Jim clancy looks at the regional politics. Reporter the search for flight 370 compels rivals across asia to come together as partners. In an area in Southeast Asia fighting over rocks in the middle of the sea and now working together, i think that is a great achievement. Reporter from the sea of japan and malacca straits and oil and gas riches and fishing rights are crushed in the 24hour news cycle. Social media bursts with the missing airlines with 239 passengers captivates the world. Several are reacting to the pressure put on by the public to do something about locating this plane. Reporter do something. Planes and ships from china, japan, south korea, australia, new zealand and the United States. We are now hearing from one of the pilots who returned moments ago from searching for mh370 over the western coast of australia, in perth, australia. Lets listen in to what he has to say. If you do find something of significance, what will you do . Do you go back . Absolutely. Yeah. Okay. The process we go through is everybody on board the aircraft will hear the mark, mark, mark call up from the flight section and it will drop a flare which emits smoke importafor 45 minut. At same time, we use the aircraft system that will drop a gps point. We attempt to maintain visual contact with that object that was being seen and reposition the aircraft to get photographs of it. Once we got photographs of the object, we send them off for analysis. If there is a vessel in the area, we vector them on to retain the object and analyze it from there. That is the basic process. Have you gone through so long now, is there a time constraint or concern about the chances for finding anything . My chances of finding anything, that is over the rescue coordination. My job is to optimize our platform. To get out there and get eyes on and find anything we can in that area. The chances of finding anything, that is not something i would comment on because it is not my area of expertise. One more question. The objects okay. The objects that were potentially sighted yesterday. Position has been recorded. They dropped drift buoys in the area to get an assessment of what the drift is doing of the objects and other aircraft in the area are attempting to relocate those. That wasnt my mission today. My mission was a separate area. I hope those guys did well today. Hopefully will have good news. Thanks. Thanks, everybody. All right. You hear the pilot who just returned from a search of the western coast of australia going through essentially the proper protocol. They have a procedure where they drop the flare buoys in the water and they can call ships in the region to confirm or not that this is wreckage from mh370. So far, we just missed it as we crossed the pilot. This pilot telling us the images identified in Chinese Media have not confirmed to be mh370 and no other debris has been found as of yet. We have teams all over the world covering this story for you. We whiill bring you details as soon as they become available. Stay tuned with cnn. We will be back after this short break. Welcome back. Now as we told you a short while ago, the president s of russian and the United States had a phone conversation on the crisis in ukraine. Vladimir putin called barack obama on friday. The white house says mr. Putin agreed to work for a diplomatic solution to the crisis. The kremlin says that is not what happened. It says mr. Putin expressed concern for ethnic russians in ukraine and moldova. Our White House CorrespondentMichelle Kosinski joins us live now from the white house. What do we know about the call from putin to obama . Reporter we know something entirely different depending on which sides summary you read. We dont know that there was actually any movement. Any positive movement on the diplomatic front. What the u. S. Said after the call which happened yesterday evening here in saudi arabia, was president putin reached out to president obama by phone and wanted to talk about a proposal about the diplomatic solution in ukraine. President obama, according to the white house, told putin the diplomatic way forward would require pulling back of Russian Troops. They did not specify if that meant the tens of thousands of troops amassed at the Ukrainian Border or the presence in crimea. Of course, it is hard to imagine what a diplomatic solution would be. On the one hand, crimea is now part of russia and on the other hand, ukraine saying they wont secede a centimeter. The u. S. Not recognizing that crimea is part of russia. When you read what the russian summary of that phone call was, it says that president Vladimir Putin alerted the u. S. To a situation of what they called extremist rampage. Issuing threats and intimidation to citizens in kiev and other parts of the region and president putin said he was worried about another area. Called transnestria. It is a part of moldova. It is an area of dispute. President putin said he wanted a fair settlement of that dispute. He was concerned about what he saw as a blockade of the ukraine crisis to the people in that area. That is a big concern. The question is what is putins plan. What does he see his role being in that part of moldova at this point . It is right on the border of ukraine. The worry all along has been with those troops massed at the Ukrainian Border, does putin see plans for other parts of the region . What happens next . The u. S. Said russia should submit a clear written proposal what it sees a diplomatic way forward being and both Foreign Ministers can meet in the near future. Errol. Although there are two completely different interpretations, it can be seen as a positive sign that the two leaders have direct contact. What about we know the u. S. President has left saudi arabia and coming back to the u. S. What was on the agenda with his meeting and the saudi king . Reporter u. S. Officials said it was a good meeting. Called it excellent. More than two hours long and stressed the alignment of both countries on the two biggest issues threatening the stability of this region. Iran and syria. It was really necessary for the u. S. To reassure saudi arabia that our diplomatic outreach to iran on the Nuclear Issue was going to be something that would not effect the u. S. Relationship with saudi arabia. Officials said that they stressed the u. S. Would not accept a bad outcome and the u. S. , of course, is still worried about irans other actions in the region that are seen as destabilizing. The United States and saudi arabia agree on helping the opposition in syria. They agree on what groups to help. Obviously, the u. S. Has a lot of concerns about proliferation there. I think it was interesting coming here. U. S. Officials said one issue that did not come up was human rights. We know that president obama has spent the last week talking about the importance of individual rights, democracy, freedom. He met with the pope on those issues. Made a speech on those issues. It didnt come up here. When saudi arabia just issued a series of laws that essentially makes it a crime to tweet dissent and tweet peoples dissatisfaction with the government. Made it a crime to stage a sitin or any peaceful demonstration. We asked that questio