on the number of australian residents who can return from overseas. that s driven up the cost of airfares and left tens of thousands of australians unable to get back. those who have made it back are taken into mandatory hotel quarantine for 1h days. with me is our reporter courtney bembridge who has been following this story since the start of the pandemic. thank you very much for coming in and chatting. now while these rules have undoubtedly saved lives, many lives, they have had some devastating consequences, haven t they? i spoke earlier this morning to a western australian man named james. he was living in belgium with his girlfriend, she is bulges that make belgian. and he got the call from his family to say he needed to get home asap because his mother was not well. he tried to get onto a flight that day, there were none from belgium. he tried to go through amsterdam, through germany, he was unable to get a flight back to wa, to perth
kyung, he s in feather as you know, wants to get a firsthand look at what s going on. what else is he planning on doing because cooperation between malaysia and australia clearly is critical? reporter: clearly critical, but we re not sure how much they re talking. they do seem like they re two separate investigations. malaysia dealing with everything that happened before the plane disappeared and then australia picking up on the search and recovery. we did see the malaysian prime minister touch ground yesterday here in australia. we understand that he will be arriving here at the military base in israeaustralia just out of perth, he ll be doing this in front of the cameras, meeting some of the search teams. this is interesting because it does appear to be somewhat of an optics game. wolf? thanks very much, kyung lah. we ll check back with you. shenise perth, australia. australia, by the way, is is certainly bearing the brunt of
might be able to send bits and pieces of it up to satellites from time to time. people have already learned a lot about aviation safety from the exercise to this point. i don t think the thing will be the same again. but one thing will be absolutely the case, and that is governments right around the globe will react to this and start to insist on some changes from the airlines. i know six australian citizens were aboard that plane, so this hits home to everyone in australia, particularly. qantas airlines yes. i don t know if you fly 777s. does qantas airlines i don t fly 777s, but i do fly 777s home because from washington to perth, perth is my home. qantas doesn t fly 777s. t they don t, but emirates, which has a relationship with qantas, does. i fly home every year at least once using a 777. very popular plane. a popular plane and this is a terrific plane. in terms of the human dimensions
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