speaking to the press. making some sort of comment, jim. is there any indication that he has something important to announce or is this just a regular update rallying the troops there at the search zone? reporter: his comments have not been we haven t gotten any notification of what he s going to be talking about. the fact that he hasn t released anything like that shouldn t be read as some important announcement. it s most likely that he s probably just coming here to get an update, to make some sort of comment. he has been making a comment every single day. usually from another city in australia. but he s expected to arrive here perhaps to talk to some of the search teams. all right. we ll listen out for updates for what he has to say. we ve talked a lot about this u.s. pinger locater that had been flown to australia. it s now been loaded on that ship, the ocean shield. we saw some pictures of it. do you know when that heads to the search zone? i suppose the goal, since they
experts say they could, emphasis on could, be the plane s emergency escape slides or possibly life rafts. as we possibly get closer to a potential break in the search, devastated families are protesting. they re demanding proof, something to justify the claim by malaysian officials that all lives onboard that plane were lost. within hours o f this protest, a top malaysian official was offering a glimmer of hope to relatives in kuala lumpur. miracles do happen. remote or otherwise. that is the hope that the family members want me to convey. today s search effort is ramping up as we speak. additional planes and ships will later join the hunt for those four orange objects spotted in the ocean by search planes. our kyung lah is in perth, australia. we were told about 15 minutes ago those first flights were meant to take off. what is their goal today? reporter: the goal is to try to knock off more of the search area.
provocative, clearly no agreement yet. he said that both sides made suggestions to each other about possible drawdown, redeployment of troops. he also noted in the end those troops are in russia on russian soil. that remains an open question. i want to bring in our foreign affairs reporter elyse labot. she s in washington now. as you listen to secretary kerry s comments there, particularly his comments on those troops which the u.s. has made very clear is a provocative act, those russian troops on the ukrainian border, did you hear a sign that they had moved closer to agreement on that issue? jim, i think that there s an effort on both parts to de-escalate the situation and not make it go further. i think what s interesting is these discussions were not centered around a reversal of this annexation of crimea which the secretary did say was inappropriate, illegal, illegitimate. but no talk in those statements, really, about reversing it. which means which says to me
matthew. reporter: yeah, i m absolutely certain in a situation as imminent as this, as important as this, the british prime minister in his residence here behind me will be updated continuously, probably throughout the night. obviously he s been meeting with the top security officials, the head the british air force, army, navy have been meeting here over the past few hours together with representatives of the other security services as well. and the expectation is obviously, david cameron, the british prime minister, will be kept fully abreast of the developments in tripoli and elsewhere. matthew chance, thank you so much. joining us from 10 downing street in london. let s move on now and go to cnn s elyse labot. elyse, i understand that you have been inside of this compound, the one that nic was reporting from just moments ago and he will join us again shortly, nic said this is a heavily fortified compound. tell us about it. heavily forts i fived. i was in the residence in 20