Most acclaimed singers, the grammywinner Angelique Kidjo we transform africa, completely, by educating more women. Because we need new leadership. Woodruff those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. And friends of the newshour. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff the search for the missing malaysian airliner may be getting warmer nearly three weeks after the plane disappeared. The australian Maritime Safety authority, amsa, shifted its focus almost 700 miles to the northeast today, and planes quickly radioed in new discoveries. John sparks of independent television news, reports from perth, australia. Reporter the search for any sign of the missing malaysian aerials mh370 has been lifted 11 kilometers to the northeast of the existing search area is now the most credible lead as to where debris maybe located. Well, heres why they moved it. Experts reexamined radar data as the boeing 777 changed course, turning west toward the malacca strait. They found the aircraft was flying faster than thought, using up more fuel and limiting the distance it could fly. They now think the aircrafts final location lies somewhere here in 120,000odd square miles of indian ocean. The previous search was far to the south. For three weeks, search teams have scoured the surface of the earth and up above satellites have done the same, producing a series of socalled credible leads. But theyve come to nothing. The australians have, in effect, abandoned the search in the southern indian ocean. This is the normal business of search and rescue operations that new information comes to light, the analyses takes you to a different place. Reporter flight 370s black box is fitted with an underwater beacon which could lead personnel to the wreckage but the device is running out of power and if it falls silent, well, it could take years to find the aircraft. Planes scoured the new search area today and multiple objects were spotted, were told. This picture taken from the window of a new zealand airplane. Officials said theyve analyzed this object and others overnight. Ifill hari sreenivasan, more on the search for the plane after the news summary. General motors is recalling 23,000 small cars that may have faulty ignition switches. The recall expands what began last month with chevy, pontiac and saturn models dating back to 2003. Gm has come under fire for not acting on the problem years ago. Woodruff president obama stopped off in saudi arabia today, hoping to mend frayed ties with the kingdom. The saudis have been critical of u. S. Nuclear talks with iran, and they were angered last year when the president scrapped plans for a military strike on syria. Iran is supporting the assad regime in syria. Well look deeper into the u. S. Saudi relationship in a few moments. Woodruff late today, russian president Vladimir Putin telephoned president obama to discuss ukraine. They spoke for an hour. The white house said mr. Obama urged him to pull Russian Troops back from the border. Earlier, in a c. B. S interview, the president rebuked putin over his seizure of crimea. He may be entirely misreading the west. Hes certainly misreading American Foreign policy. We have no interest in circling russia and we have no interest in ukraine beyond letting ukrainian people make their own decisions about their own lives. Woodruff the kremlin announced new, retaliatory measures against countries that have expanded sanctions against russia. Nato is getting a new secretary general, amid the crisis over ukraine. Former norwegian premier Jens Stoltenberg will assume his new post, starting in october. He succeeds anders fogh rasmussen. In washington state, bad weather hampered the search for mudslide victims today. The official death toll in last saturdays disaster remained at 17. A local fire chief said efforts to recover at least nine more bodies are continuing, despite rainstorms that soaked the site all over again. And its kind of like a fibreglass. Youve got the trees infused with the mud with the homeowner stuff with everything its all enfused together. And the digging has been very rough especially lately because its rained the last few days so theres a lot more mud and the mud is much more fluid. Ifill 90 people are still listed as missing, roughly half the population of the Tiny Community of oso before the mudslide buried it. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie defended a report for closing a bridge. The candidate hired the lawyers who did the report including a form federal prosecutor randy mastro. Democrats branded it a whitewash, but in trenton, christie rejected the charge 23 i think the report will stand the test of time. But it will be tested by the other investigations that are ongoing and it is limited, as randy mastro pointed out, in small part by some of the access they had and didnt have um to certain people. Woodruff separate federal and state legislative investigations of the bridge closing are continuing. Woodruff there are two new studies on cholesterol and heart health out today. Researchers at Baylor University report onethird of preteens may have borderline or high cholesterol. They studied 13,000 youths in texas. Another study at New York University concludes married people are less likely than the unmarried to suffer heart or blood vessel problems. It involved more than 3. 5 million people. Woodruff on wall street the Dow Jones Industrial average was up nearly 59 points to close at 16,323. The nasdaq rose and the sandp 500 added 8 points to finish at 1857. For the week, the dow gained a tenth of a percent. The nasdaq fell nearly three percent, and the sandp 500 lost half a percent. One of the bestknown p. O. Ws during the vietnam war Jeremiah Denton died today, at a virginia hospice. He was a navy combat pilot, shot down over North Vietnam in 1965. The next year, he was seen blinking the word torture, in morse code, during a propaganda interview. He later wrote of repeated beatings in his book when hell was in session. Denton was finally released in 1973 and served one term in the u. S. Senate from alabama. He was 89 years old. Still to come on the newshour a new turn in the hunt for that missing airliner; president obamas visit to saudi arabia; the president s point man on education under fire; shields and brooks on the weeks news; plus, a grammy winners songs of empowerment for africas women. Woodruff the search for flight 370 is resuming but it has shifted by almost 700 miles following new leads and new radar data about the missing airliner. Its been three weeks since the airliner first disappeared, and time is dwindling before some potential pings from the black box may end. Hari sreenivasan in our new york studio gets the latest on the investigation. Sreenivasan and for that, we turn to our own miles obrien. Hes a pilot, aviation analyst and our science correspondent. Help us understand this recall calculation of the radar and how it impacted changing the location of a search. Well, its kind of like, you know, a story problem from mathematics in middle school, distance equals rate times time, and factor in fuel consumption. Anybody whos driven down the highway, you drive 80 miles an hour, you will be stopping for gas sooner. Same goes for an airliner, if youre flying faster at any given altitude, you will burn more fuel and you will go a shorter distance. So, basically, what they have determined is that the aircraft went down to 12,000 feet, give or take, based on military radar returns on the primary target, the transponder being off, but they were able to determine roughly the altitude, and have concluded at, at that altitude, the aircraft was flying over what pilots call the redline speed which would be 400 nautical miles an hour true air speed. That is as fast as you want to go at that altitude. And when you factor in the distance and time and fuel con semption, that puts them well short of perth at that location where they moved the search. Reporter why is this information coming out now and not a week ago . Im just as incredulous as you are, hari. This is an investigation thats very opaque, difficult to draw concrete conclusions, but the fact is it shouldnt have taken uppardz of 20 days to draw this conclusion. I think part of the problems is the malaysians were late to organize the investigation in a multinational way and i think there is some National Rivalries that are involved here and the fact that the information being shared is, in fact, based on military radar systems. So there is a reluctance to share this information. You throw that all together in one pot and you have data that has been analyzed probably a little later in the game than it should have been, and thats a shame because the weather is terrible there, the conditions are awful, and its only going to get worse. Very soon, it will be winter and theyll have to suspend all searching. Sreenivasan best case scenario, lets say the objects theyre seeing today are parts of the plane. Its still going to be hard to find it under water. Yes, 20 days of drift. Oceanographers are good at figuring out the current. They will try to backtrack the debris to see where the impact zone might be. But there are Big Questions at this point. Were getting to the edge of the expected life to have the batteries inside the identify life of the batteries inside the black boxes, the sort of pingers that can be detected using an underground listening device. Its unclear if theyre working in the first place, but assuming everything went well and to spec, theres not much time to get the hydrophone underwater to see if they hear a ping. Sreenivasan is the geography of the new area beneficial to searchers . Water more shallow, closer to australia . Its closer which is good news because the landbased aircraft have had very little time on station searching. Theyve had to fly four hours just to get there, a couple of hours on site and four hours back. Not an efficient use of time. Its closer to land. There will be more time to do search grids on station. Thats good news. As far as the depth goes, it still gets down to around 10,000 feet, a couple of miles, which is about the range of the pingers. Thats why you need to put something under water and get it lower to try to get your best chance at hearing the pings. Sreenivasan in all this, while the clock is ticking on whether the batteries have already run out or running out as we speak. Yes, and in the case of the air france 447 crash in 2009, they actually did take the hydrophone right over the wreckage site and did not hear a ping. Within the time frame that the pingers should have been working. So its now thought the pingers never worked in the case of air france. So theres no guarantee that there are in fact pinging. So there have to be concurrent to use other technology to basically map the ocean floor in the area where they think the wreckage might be because that maybe the only way you find the wreckage. Sreenivasan as the batteries run out on the pingers and boxes, does that change the psychology of the search . Well, it does, but we dont know exactly when theyre going to run out. 30 days is the sh specification. They may have go longer, may have stopped. You continue to search using other means. Really, the constraint is going to be Mother Nature here. Eventually, the conditions will be too bad to search at all and they will have to suspend for the winter, which is why i think they need more assets on station, additional aircraft, additional ships. The u. S. Navy is ideally suited to provide the kind of tools that could really saturate, you know, sort of do a fullcourt press in the limited time available, either send an Aircraft Carrier down there or provide additional landbase search aircraft. Theres got to be a more concerted effort and i think there are reasons that isnt happening but it should. Sreenivasan miles obrien, thanks so much. Youre welcome. Woodruff president obama wrapped up his week long trip overseas with stop in saudi arabia, in an effort to heal a growing rift with a key partner in the middle east. Jeffrey brown has that. Woodruff the president arrived in saudi arabia at a tense time in u. S. Relations with the desert kingdom. He met with King Abdullah for two hours, at a royal farm outside riyadh. The elderly monarch wore what appeared to be an oxygen tube. He was joined by prince muqrin bin abdulaziz whos just been named second in line to the throne. There were no public statements, but aides said mr. Obama hoped to reassure abdullah on key concerns. On syria, for example, the saudis want the u. S. To provide more military aid to sunni rebels fighting president bashar alassad. Hes backed by shiite iran. In washington today, the state departments marie harf sought to play down divisions over syria. Weve always had same goals with saudis, right . Weve had some tactical differences, weve had conversations and worked through them and today, feel like we are in a stronger place with our two countries, closely coordinating even more what kinds of assistance were providing, how we can increase that assistance, what makes the most sense in how we can change the balance of power there. Brown in fact, reports today indicated the president may reverse his opposition to supplying the Syrian Rebels with surfacetoair missiles. But riyadh also harbors deep doubts about u. S. Nuclear negotiations with iran. And, the saudis took a dim view of u. S. Support for arab spring uprisings in egypt and other arab states. All of this led senior saudi officials last year to warn of a major shift away from their longtime reliance on the u. S. The kingdom even turned down a seat on the u. N. Security council, accusing that body of failing to take firm action on syria and other issues. Brown for more on the state of this relationship, im joined by toby jones, a historian at Rutgers University who studies and writes on the gulf states. And frederic wehrey, a former u. S. Air force officer who served in and around the middle east, including the persian gulf, hes now at the Carnegie Endowment for international peace. Let me start with you, frederic. Tell me about the recent tensions. What are the main issues . I think the discord stems from a series of disagreements about the way the immediately is unfolding. Iran, syria, egypt. The saudis fundamentally are worried this nuclear deal will leave irans regional aggression unchecked, that the United States is really being sort of hood winked by iran. On syria, they believe were not doing enough to check irans influence in that country, that were not supporting the Syrian Opposition enough. But theres also a series of fundamental disagreements about the postarab spring middle east, especially in egypt. The saudis believe the administration had a dangerous nie yeefty about the brotherhood and the saudis stepped in and backed the military government there. Brown so all of these are big developments to have the last few years. Yes. There is also something more fundamentally at stake with with respect to riyadh and thats the United States was am biff leapt at best about the process of democracy following the uprisings. The saudis are fearful about the idea of political empowerment and rule and acting aggressively to counter that. I think that caught the americans offguard, though could have been easily anticipated. In addition to the geopolitical problem that fred outlined clearly, the saudis are terrified by the prospect of the new political order across the region and that the americans might support it. Brown what did the u. S. Want out of this meeting and what does it want now from this relationship . Well, i think american and saudi interests align theoretically around issues of terrorism, about how to deal with iran if it doesnt accommodate the United States demands with respect to its Nuclear Program and negotiations there. But in practice, there are deep decisions and i think the americans wanted to show up to assure the saudis that this is a relationship thats lasted for quite a long time and should proceed Going Forward. But also theres a moment on the horizon, if you will, in which these things might have to be rethought. Brown frederic, how big a rift, how does it show itself, whats being done if anything to mend it . Well, this is a significant, i think, period of turbulence were going through. We have to remember, throughout the history of u. S. Saudi relations, theres always been the sense by the saudis that the United States is not a reliable security guarantor. You go back to the kennedy administration, they were saying youre not doing enough to support us against naser, after the iranian revolution, same thing. Brown an old story. It is. I think the region is changing in fundamental ways. The u. S. Sees it going one way, the saudis see it going another, and i do think the relationship will have to be renegotiated later on. Right now the fundamental pillars of the relationship, the cooperation between the u. S. , the military assistance that the u. S. Gives to saudi arabia remains solid and excellent cooperation on counterterrorism. Brown from both sides, from the saudi military and u. S. Military . Those interests have not changed, youre saying . Thats my understanding, yes. I think there is still this fundamental recognition by the saudis that they need u. S. Military support. We see them going on shopping sprees to other countries china, indonesia, pakistan but fundamentally no one else is providing the type of support that the u. S. Provides. Brown toby jones, youre suggesting some of this rift is really due to the perceptions by the saudis of the Obama Administration, and more recent actions. Yeah, i think thats correct. I think the Obama Administration has staked out a minimalist position in the middle east where it would like to sort of reduce the american footprint there. I know military strategists dont see our