bbc middle east. if using. does he base the announcement. last night jess and lisa. my face minogue was. for many the receiving approval from the investigating authorities arrange them with the main street. it is. it is so huge and we will continue to support the one leading the investigation. all the australian defence minister has thanked the countries that joined in the search operation in the southern corridor and he said that the turning forty investigation process now will come once they are able to identify any of the objects that are suspected to belong to the missing plane nobody keeps wiggling to go on doctrine information giving us a hint as to what is actually happened that so we've got to go. i think the telemetry from the satellite. on the umass at satellite. i get a riding on a levi says that women should from the eyes nose and the performance of the a cup of tea is always good to go on a bike. i think the federal ombudsman and that's what we've been to the prom not surprise did anything with respect to this this is a mystery. and until we recover and

he'll need to refocus on one of washington's oldest allies in the middle east which has been strained. i'm joined by mohammed from bbc arab arabic. how bad are relations between the united states and saudi? >> the relationship between the united states and saudi arabia is going from bad to worse over the past three years, not just because of syria, but because of iran and egypt, as well. the tension started in 2011 with the start of the arab uprising bht saudi arabians were disappointed that the americans have dropped their ally in egypt, hosni mubarak at the time and benali in tunisia. then the syrian crisis started developing in iran. the saudis are the arch -- of iran and they're not happy about the nuclear talks going auto right now. they're not happy about iran backing the bashar al assad government in syria and they are going into a proxy war with them, backing the armed rebels there. and so it's -- and they feel that the americans are disengaging from the region after withdrawing from iran, from afghanistan. the less dependance on the oil, the gulf oil with the fracking and the new knowledge of the discoveries

bbc world news". that's the view of syrian-born doctor in britain at the moment. and after her experiences in the north of syria. let's go to the middle east correspondent jim muir from eastern lebanon, close to the border with syria. jim, what's your assessment now three years on on what on earth is happening both on the political and humanitarian side? >> translato >> the humanitarian side is what you feel now. it doesn't allow the formal. you have these shanty towns sprung up in fields throughout the valley with 3,000 new refugees being added every single day. they say we just don't know. that's the tragedy. this is going into its fourth year. some of the people living here in these shanties have been here three years and when will they ever be able to go home? it is pretty much a dead end at the moment. nobody is talking about geneva because the russians have fallen out over the ukraine. that certainly hasn't help. president assad seems to be preparing to run another reelection for presidencies. in other words, they don't see any change coming up. as i say, there's no end in sight. that's what makes it very depressing for the hundreds