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The people who are coordinating the search, the maritime authorities here in australia, are tweeting that a u.s. p-8 poseidon plane has been diverted to that area where the chinese saw these objects. now, the chinese saw them as they were heading for home, meaning they were running low on fuel, they had to get back and they were quite high, about 33,000 feet. so, at that height, certainly visual sightings are going to be very, very indistinct. the p-8 s gone down there. so far, we know it hasn t located what those chinese observers saw. so, another frustrating lead not developing as everyone would hope it would, but it is still a lead, deb, all painting a picture, building a picture. we don t yet know what that picture s going to be. is it going to be a blank? can they rule this southern search area out? but at the moment, there is a lot of information coming in to suggest that this remains the most important area, and we wait for further information, if they ....
Remoteness part of the southern indian ocean. it s an area where the weather changes quickly and violently. that s what these pilots and crews have been dealing with, deb, and it looks like they re going to have to deal with that for at least another 24 to 48 hours. what they need, obviously, are more ships in that area. there s only one ship in the area at the moment, an australian naval vessel. it is in the target zone. it is not near where the debris was reported. more naval vessels are heading there, particularly chinese naval vessels, plus a chinese icebreaker, would you believe, been diverted from perth here in western australia, but that s all taking time to get there. there s only one vessel on site at the moment, and again, that s coming back to this visual sighting. that is what they need. that is what they are going to confirm, identify any parts of mh-370. that will have to be a very close-up visual identification. and you mentioned that u.s. plane that was diverted to th ....
Potentially contemplating crossing into ukraine. so, of course, this is expected to become, despite the real setting here being the nuclear security summit, that s going to be the main context of discussions that are expected to take place later today, deb. with the president sort of urging more unity when it comes to what the russians are doing in crimea, how do you think the europeans are going to respond to that message? how will it be received? reporter: well, we re seeing, you know, messages from people like the british foreign secretary, william hague, who wrote an op ed over the weekend, and he said this is the most serious situation this century that international law applies to all countries, there must be a price to pay, that europeans need to look to a new way of dealing with russia, not, you know, different from the past 20 years. the language is all very much in tune and in line with what we re hearing from the united states, ....
But the price that the europeans would have to pay, given that russia is the third largest trading partner for the european union, that while the rhetoric is strong and the commitment so far has been ramping up, the hope from the united states that it could match the level the united states is willing to go to, you know, we re going to have to see just what kind of commitments the european leaders take. again, the language is strong, but the actual sanctions stand to hurt europe, potentially, more than the united states. deb? all right, yeah, strong language, stronger economic impact. thank you, nic. happening today in south africa, both sides have returned to court for the oscar pistorius murder trial. after a sudden adjournment put that trial on hold, prosecutors say they plan to wrap up their case this week and they re likely to only put on five more witnesses. they had originally proposed presenting testimony from more ....
Off course and disappearing from radar. now, it could give us the best indication yet of just what happened inside the cockpit. cnn s andrew stevens live in perth, australia. and andrew, first, what these objects, three different satellites seem to have picked up what they re calling objects of interest, suspicious objects. what are you learning? reporter: well, we re learning not a lot at this stage, deb. it s very frustrating for everyone. but i think of the three, the images taken by the australian satellites and then the chinese satellites are the most relevant to this latest sighting. we also heard yesterday that the french had taken pictures, but that s quite a ways north of this zone of particular interest. so, these two significant objects, we don t know what they are. they are big, they are suspicious, according to the chinese, meaning that they could be linked. but we re just getting new information in the last couple of minutes. ....