the flight 370 search effort. joining us is australia s ambassador to the united states. thanks for coming in. good to be with you. tell us about the coordination, the prime minister of malaysia in australia, ready to meet your prime minister. what s the objective here? first of all, ma leighs are in charge of the overall investigation. and we are responsible for this part of the investigation or the search because it s in the australian area, so we re doing that coordination. but any materials that are found by any of the parties who are engaged in this will be taken to perth, it will be collected there, and then take on the malaysia. malaysia is in overall charge but the search operation australia is in charge. yes, we are. have you found anything yet? no. as far as i m aware, we haven t found anything yet. we re eliminating areas from our inquiry. there s a very good search process out there. if there is any chance of
kuala lumpur. what do they look for when they re doing that? at each stage of this investigation, as you get one small bit of information, you have to think of it as a new tributary in a river, and that leads you down other avenues they might look for. so at the beginning there s no reason to stem cell research pilot s house. now, given what we know, they will absolutely be looking very closely at the pilots and the co-pilot s computers, their electronic mail record, have they been talking to other people. and this is a place where frankly i think the ma leighs would be very wise to cooperate extremely closely with countries like the united states that have very, very strong and able investigators both technically and more criminally focused investigators to then them find any motivation within those piles homes and their larger social circles. last weekend we were talking about the the two stolen passports, one from an austrian citizen, one from italian citizen that were used to