pauline chiou is covering the families that are there. so many of them are chinese, in beijing. i understand they're planning a hunger strike unless they get more clarity? >> reporter: -- >> all right. we seem to have lost pauline. we will go back to her in beijing, she's with the families where so many of the passengers are, they are demanding answers and not satisfied with what they're getting. some threatening a hunger strike until we find out more. >> and we, of course, will continue to follow the mystery of flight 370 all morning long. but first, ukraine authorizing its forces to shoot after a deadly attack on a military base, they're vowing to keep crimea from leaving the country. could war be moving? we're live after the break. >>> welcome back, 17 minutes past the hour. breaking news this morning in crimea where ukrainian forces have now been authorized to fire in self-defense, after a soldier was killed when armed men stormed the military base near crimea's capital. it's first military death since russian forces marched into crimea last month. and those armed men who at

pauline chiou is in beijing covering that part of the story. pauline, it seems so sad. >> reporter: so sad and so incredibly frustrating. and on that hunger strike that you mentioned, johns are only a handful had expressedest from in that yesterday. we know already that two people have stopped. we talked with an aunt, and she said that her two nephews had gone on this hunger strike yesterday. by 3:00 p.m., she was able to talk them out of it and they were able to eat. we're not sure how much momentum that has gotten. but i can tell you several relatives today, several of them have said that they're getting sick because of the stress and the fatigue and the lack of sleep. one woman said she's a doctor and she's had to take sleeping pills just to be able to sleep two hours a night. an elderly man today said that he's beginning to feel dizzy. and he doesn't even know where the hospital is in beijing because he's not from beijing. and we have to remember of these 465 registered relatives here in beijing, many of them are from places far away from th

cnn's pauline chiou is in beijing following that part of the story. pauline, a lot of anger from these families because they're just not getting the specific answers they want from authorities. >> reporter: yeah, and it's been like that for the past 17 days. in fact, at the news briefing that they had with the malaysian delegates today, they asked exactly about that new information that jim clancy was reporting on, that a source told cnn that this plane had gone down to 12,000 feet. one relative asked specifically about that, was that on military radar? did you know about that earlier on? why didn't you release that information? and the answer they got was, sorry, there's no one from the military here, we can't answer that question. so, that's the kind of brick wall that they're hitting at these briefings day in and day out. now, earlier today, i sat down in a hotel room with a group of families. they agreed to talk with us, but they didn't want us to shoot their faces. that's because many of their elderly relatives don't know that their families are c

pauline chiou live for us in beijing. thanks so much for that report. >> all right, we'll bring you the latest on the search for this flight throughout the morning. >>> but first, fear in ukraine. is russia about to invade? russian troops building at the border. diplomatic talks between russia and the u.s. breaking down. breaking news this morning, russia's prime minister in crimea. we're live with the very latest on that next. >>> all right, welcome back, everyone. it is a race against time now to find malaysia airlines flight 370. the search now more than three weeks old, which really does mean it is just a matter of days before the battery power of that plane's black box recorders runs out. there is some discouraging news this morning. four objects spotted by an australian crew in the indian ocean search area turned out not to be related to the plane. there was a lot of hope this weekend about those objects, but now authorities saying just pieces of fishing equipment. today's search team, ten planes, ten aircraft -- te

and so the search goes on and here in kuala lumpur last night we heard pauline chiou talking about the families there meeting today with high-level officials, air force officers and others. well, here they also talked with some officials and they had a lot of questions to ask. they emerged outside and the media was surrounding them trying to find out what they think. you know, it's a difficult, difficult time. many families coming to grips with what they face, realizing that this may not have all a good end. but they're looking for some kind of closure. they're looking for some kind of certainty and to do that they have to look towards the indian ocean, towards the search that is under way for any clues that can directly tie something to this missing jetliner. so far there hasn't been a single one. natalie? >> it is truly remarkable that there hasn't been and certainly, you know, no one wants to get hopes up that these clues might become apparent in the southern indian ocean, that it could be part of the plane. but the it were, jim, that is only the start of still trying to figure out

pauline chiou is live in beijing with that part of the story. good morning, pauline. >> reporter: good morning to you, john. yeah, there's still this steady demand for answers from these relatives here in beijing, and emotions once again are running high at these daily briefings between the families and the airline representatives. earlier this morning, one mother stood up and made this very passionate plea. [ speaking foreign language ] >> reporter: she says, "we have only one child. we are respectful chinese people. it's hard to control your emotions when you might have lost your loved ones. we just need the truth," she says, "don't use them as political pawns." now, she did say this is her only child. and keep in mind that china does have this one-child policy. so, many of the sons and daughters of the 154 chinese citizens on this plane were only children, so that's another reason why these families are so desperate for information, john. >> so awful to hear, pauline. we also understand that china is now saying that it has ruled out the possib

pauline chiou is in beijing this morning. and pauline, the families really want something more concrete, more tangible, and it's really staggering to watch the level of distrust that they have in what they're being told. >> reporter: yeah, and that mistrust grows day by day. that's exactly right. they want more information. they're not prepared to close the door on this, because they say, sure, the malaysian officials say data from satellites indicate that the plane went down, but they say before you actually tell us our loved ones have not survived, show us some evidence, show us a suitcase or show us a seat cushion or some sort of debris with the markings of malaysia airlines 370. they want more information. they want evidence. and as a result, because of this mistrust and also the way things have been communicated, they coordinated today and they've protested, which is not something you see on a regular basis here in beijing. we saw about 300 to 400 relatives try to get on buses to go to the malaysian embassy. the police wo

our pauline chiou has been spending time with so many of these families in beijing for the last two weeks. pauline joining us live from beijing again this morning, where i do understand that these malaysian officials are now briefing the families, really for the first time, on the logistics of the search. >> reporter: yeah, and the families, john, are saying, finally, because we have been asking for days to have high-level executives from malaysia airlines and high-level government officials to come here to beijing, where most of the families are, to answer our questions. and in this -- the focus is very intense. these 450 relatives asked very pointed questions, very methodical questions of these officials and executives. studying the information so carefully -- they've had 14 days to go over it. >> all right, that's pauline chiou in beijing. we're having a hard time with the connection. pauline has been spending so much time with these families who were briefed by officials from malaysia today. >> finally. agony for them, waiting and waiting. >> as pauline was saying, they've been asking

our coverage of the search for flight 370 continues now with pauline chiou on the phone from beijing.w are those families doing this morning? >> reporter: they're not doing well, and there's this tense atmosphere in this conference room here at the lido hotel in beijing. there's a tentativeness, a fear of what this debris might mean. they've received this new lead with mixed emotion. because in their mind, the fact that no debris had been found was actually a sign of hope that maybe they could find this plane somewhere with the passengers on board, but they are getting realistic as we're going into day 13. now, you showed a clip of that news conference from australia. i was in the ballroom, in this conference room when that news conference was going on. many families started trickling in because they heard about it, they heard about the debris. and as john young from the maritime safety authority was speaking, i was looking around the room. these family members were tense, they were worried. they sat up in their chairs, they leaned forward. they were hanging on to every word of the ch

pauline chiou has been following this live from beijing. she has been talking to the families, really in the middle of that frustration. pauline? >> reporter: john, and these families are so impatient with those officials that are giving that news conference every night out of kuala lumpur, those briefings you just touched on. they feel that the flow of information is just too slow, and they just want to know what happened to their loved ones. we also have briefings here in beijing between the family members and airline representatives. again, very few answers, and this morning emotions were running high, as one woman said, listen, this is my only child. please, just give us answers, please don't use them as political pawns. and in this briefing, you got a sense that the families were starting to get much more focused in their questions. they were asking technical questions to these airline representatives, like what happens to a person, to a passenger when you're flying 35,000 feet in the air and then go up to 45,000 feet in altitude and th

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pauline chiou is live in beijing with that part of this morning's story. pauline? >> reporter: john, that's lack of coordination that we just heard sarah talking about in that interview that has had the families of these 154 chinese citizens so angry and frustrated as well. we're going into the tenth day of this mystery, and they shake their heads at the lack of information they've gotten. now, i was inside the hotel today behind me where many of these families are staying, and we saw them at lunchtime, where the hotel has roped off an area of a restaurant where they were eating. they are hungry for information, but they're not getting enough, so you see them checking their smartphones all the time, checking for updates online. they're even asking the media here, what's the latest and what we know. so, that gives you an idea of the hunger for information. now, the atmosphere in the hotel today is actually a little bit more relaxed than what we've seen in the past. yesterday we saw a lot of outbursts against the airline's representatives. today one relative says tha

cnn's pauline chiou, she is in beijing for us, following that important part of the story. pauline, what are you hearing from these families? they must be, frankly, so frustrated and in agony here, you know, going into the third week. >> reporter: yeah, it's been a wait of agony and anguish. these people have been suffering, and they're emotionally exhausted. now, we heard deb and jim there talking about speculation and theories, and there's a lot of that going on here in beijing because the chinese families of the passengers feel they're not getting enough information. they say they're not getting consistent information from the malaysian officials. for the past few days, they've been meeting with this high-level delegation from malaysia. we had another one of those meetings today. and again, the families said they posed certain questions to these officials, even that report out of cnn that a source had told cnn that this plane had gone down to 12,000 feet. they asked the officials here in beijing about that, and the answer was we cannot answer that because there's no one f

pauline chiou is in beijing covering that emotional part of the story. pauline, you have spent a lot of time with these families. what are they telling you? >> reporter: yes, spent a lot of time with them. and i was listening to that interview with sarah bajc, some of the family members here in beijing are echoing exactly what she had said in that interview, they're saying if this was a political act of terror, they're saying please don't use our loved ones as political pawns. that's what they've been saying for days now. during a briefing with malaysia airlines, many family members say they're starting to get sick. they're feel fog teague from lack of sleep and the stress. many of these families, 465 relatives here in beijing, from all parts of china, they're saying they're not getting enough support, emotional support from the malaysian government or malaysia airlines. so they've decided to take matters into their own hands. and would people today stood up and said we are going to start a self-help family support group. and they pulled out pieces of pap

pauline chiou has been spending a lot of time with the families. she joins us from beijing. what is the latest this morning? we know they tried to storm the malaysian embassy. we know they're demanding answers. what is the latest? >> reporter: well, they're demanding more answers at this moment in a meeting right now with malaysian government officials. military officials, as well as officials from malaysia airlines. also malaysia airlines has sent a senior boeing 777 pilot to this briefing that's going on at the moment to answer technical questions. and they're going over satellite data. the speed of the plane. possible flight paths. relatives are asking why did you narrow it down to this particular flight path. it's quite technologiciqucal an. and my producer inside have said it's so technical that some of the relatives have fallen asleep. they're going into to the second hour of this briefing. the big picture is these relatives are not satisfied with the explanation that the malaysian government has given them. and they say how can you draw conclusion from just a power po

our pauline chiou is live in beijing. she's been following that part of the story. good morning, pauline. >> reporter: good morning, john. and these families are frustrated because there is no one here to answer their questions. there's no one from the malaysian government, no one from the embassy, no one from the chinese government, and just legal representatives from malaysian airlines that come here every day to give them some briefings or to try to answer their questions. so, that's part of the frustration for the families. and at this briefing early this morning, one woman stood up and made this passionate plea. [ speaking foreign language ] she's saying, "we have only one child. we are respectful chinese people. it's hard to control your emotions when you might have lost your loved ones. we just need the truth. don't use them as political pawns." now, many of these families only have one child, because there is that one-child policy in china, so the sons and daughters on this malaysia airlines flight, for many of these families, their only children. also, john,

our pauline chiou has been spending time in beijing with the families, the loved ones of those on flight 370. she joins us now. give us a sense, first pauline, of the atmosphere in the room, because for the first time, they have been debriefed from the authorities there on what is known. >> reporter: yeah, for the first time, unbelievably, after two weeks, high-level officials from the malaysian government and also malaysia airlines have come as the so-called high-level team here to beijing, and this is a meeting that the relatives have been asking for for days now. and they did get some answers, although as a whole, they were not satisfied with the answers. the atmosphere in the room was tense, it was serious. it was packed. there were 400 to 500 relatives there in this banquet room that has been turned into a news briefing room. they were facing a panel of these executives and high-level officials. and these relatives asked very pointed questions like lawyers, very methodical questions about civilian radar and military radar. and in one woman's very intense line of questioning, we did

pauline chiou is in the chinese capital. she joins us live. pauline, they marched on the malaysian embassy there. was this a protest or a chance to vent anger at malaysian officials? >> it was a major protest. and, john, you've lived in beijing so you know what this looks like and it doesn't happen very often in the capital city. but these family members, they are not satisfied with the malaysian government's explanation of why they think the plane went down. they want hard evidence. we've talked to several relatives that said "show us debris, show us a suitcase, show us a seat cushion. if you don't have that, we don't want to hear that this plane went down." so they are very angry about this and angry with the way this message was delivered by text message and also suddenly with this announcement by the prime minister. so this morning they all congregated, they protested, they were trying to get to the malaysian embassy by bus but police officers would not let the buses out of this hotel area. so they decided to walk and they walked about one

pauline chiou is live in beijing with that part of the story. pauline, good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you, rosa. there is so much frustration among these family members here in this hotel behind me. we're going into the second week of this mystery, and to be perfectly frank, they are just dumbfounded at the way this investigation has gone and the many directions it's gone. now, earlier today, we were in this hotel, and the video that you're looking at is of tempers flaring yesterday as relatives are trying to get answers and as also they were responding to a suggestion by malaysia airlines that they might be able to go home and that malaysia airlines would pay their return journey home. that was taken as an insult by these family members. now, today, the relatives are going to be attending another briefing this evening, so we're waiting to see what happens there. but earlier, one father of a passenger spoke with journalists. his name is mr. wen, and he was very critical of the malaysian government. he said malaysia talked nonsense and

. >> pauline chiou has been following the families for some days now.nk you. >>> president obama in a war of words with russia this morning blasting the country as he met with world leaders criticizing its grab for part of ukraine. we're going to take you live and tell you what's happening right now. straight ahead. >>> president obama is in belgium this morning for the e.u. summit, talks expected to be dominated of course by the crisis in ukraine. european leaders will reportedly press president obama for nor natural gas exports from the united states so they can reduce their dependence on russian energy and punish moscow for invading crimea. michelle kosinski is live in russia. michelle, a lot of developments out of the norm overnight. >> reporter: yeah, definitely, some u.s. lawmakers have been pushing for more gas exports from the u.s., trying to reduce that dependence on russia. of course, the ukraine issue will dominate today as well. the white house has said when president obama today gives a speech to the belgium people which he hasn't done befo

pauline chiou is in beijing for us this morning. you were telling us that they were set to get on buses and go to the malaysian embassy, but the chinese government said no, and then they went off on foot anyway. >> reporter: yeah, that's right. and you're exactly right, you don't see many protests in beijing, because this is a country that closely monitoring its citizens. when they sense an uprising of some sort, they quickly suppress it, so you don't see this very often. so, we saw 300 to 350 family members try to get on these buses and move to the malaysian embassy. the police didn't allow them, so they went there on foot. they walked about two miles. and along the way, they held up banners that read, "1.3 million people are waiting for the plane." "malaysian government, tell us the truth, we've been waiting too long." a woman held up a signed to her husband, and it said "husband, please come home. what about me and our child?" and then the protesters handed a letter of complaint to an official from the embassy. and then afterward

we heard the son of somebody who was missing yesterday tell us, or tell pauline chiou, there was even some kind of hope that maybe the malaysian government was still negotiating with hostagetakers and that's why there was so much conflicting information. there are others who just want to see some shred of evidence. they will accept this when they see some shred of evidence. are the families getting any closer to being able to have the answers they need, david? >> reporter: well, christine, no, they're not getting any closer, because as we've heard my colleagues reporting, there is no sign that any conclusive evidence that you can actually tangibly see and touch and kind of feel in your heart has been found, nothing directly linking mh-370 with going down in the ocean, other than data and analysis, and that's, frankly, not enough for these families. they've been going through this agonizing wait, frustrating, sometimes it's boiling over into anger. yes, there is some level of hope from them. you know, on the public level, they still express hope, but for these family members, it's just

our pauline chiou has been spending time with the families of all of those on board flight 370. joins us now live from beijing. pauline, we understand that malaysian officials are briefing the families on the search, really for the first time. and i'm interested to know, are they satisfied with the amount of information they're getting, and what are the key questions they're asking? >> reporter: in a short answer, no, they are not satisfied. and yes, for the first time, they have a high-level meeting with malaysian officials, malaysian government officials and also airline officials. now, i was in the room with these 400 relatives as they asked questions. it was really impressive when you realize how much they've studied this information. they've had 14 days to go over all of the data. their questions were very pointed and methodical. one woman got up and asked about civilian radar as well as military radar. she said, "where is the civilian radar in a building?" and the military officials said it's in one room. where is the military radar? it's in another room. it's in the same b

he said yesterday to pauline chiou that he had maybe a 5%, you know, hope that possibly his mother, one of the passengers, was still alive. do you get the sense there, spending time with these families, david, that many of them still do have hope and do not necessarily believe what the malaysian authorities are saying, that this plane, this flight went down in the south indian ocean, that 239 lives were ended there? do they still hold on to hope? >> reporter: well, i think they hold on to hope and also keep asking very pointed questions of these officials here, who have been giving these daily briefings to a mass of hundreds of family members. they're giving them very technical details of why the plane went down, and the family members, they just don't believe it until they have that evidence. so, it's very difficult publicly for them to say that they've given up hope. it's also a cultural aspect to this. you know, people here want tangible evidence before they give up hope and they don't want to seem to be weak in front of all these people who have become a very tightly knit group. >>

pauline chiou, cnn. >>> more on the search but first a check of other stories.in washington state mudslide could be heard crying for help. a wall of mud hit northeast of seattle saturday morning. three people are dead. at least 18 unaccounted for. that number could very well go up. a rescue helicopter in the air today did not find any survivors. >> to a significant extent mother nature holds the cards here on the ability of ground personnel to enter the slide area. it is essentially a slury. when those rescue personnel did take some risks yesterday, and i'm very appreciative of their efforts, they effort at least seven people through airlift and on the ground efforts, some of them who went in literally got caught up to their arm pits and had to be dragged out by ropes themselves. >> by the way, a slury is a thick mud. at least six houses destroyed and many more damaged. residents said it happened in an instant. >> i was coming down the hill, i just saw the darkness. like somebody grab you. everything was gone. like three seconds. >> the fire chief described the

pauline chiou for us there in beijing, thank you. >>> there are so many unanswered questions about thepearance of this flight. we want to remind you our website tackles a lot of it. the big ten questions surrounding what we know, what we don't know. you'll find it at cnn.com/international. >>> while crimea is celebrating the outcome of this weekend's referendum on rejoining russia, the mood in kiev is anything but joyful. ukraine's prime minister said, and we quote, "the ground will burn under crimea's leaders' feet." >>> welcome back. crimea's capital is celebrating after an historic and controversial vote. in sunday's referendum, crimeans overwhelmingly voted to leave ukraine and rejoin russia. the crimean election commission says the final vote in favor, 96.7%. the referendum has drawn international condemnation. both the u.s. and european union are expected to announce sanctions against russia, perhaps as soon as today. tensions have been running high in the eastern ukrainian city of donesk. pro-russia demonstrators stormed a government building there and replaced the ukrainian fla

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. >> pauline chiou live in beijing. pauline, thank you so much.listen, we're going to have more on the breaking news. just to recap, the chinese officials are saying they have found via satellite some sort of, they believe, debris or an object floating in the southern corridor. indian ocean. could it be part of flight 370. we'll continue to follow this on the other side of the break. stay with us. ♪ turn around ♪ every now and then i get a little bit hungry ♪ ♪ and there's nothing really good around ♪ ♪ turn around ♪ every now and then i get a little bit tired ♪ ♪ of living off the taste of the air ♪ ♪ turn around, barry ♪ finally, i have a manly chocolatey snack ♪ ♪ and fiber so my wife won't give me any more flack ♪ ♪ i finally found the right snack ♪ ♪ >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >>> good morning. and the breaking news this morning, is that at the news conference this morning in kuala lumpur, it was announced that chinese officials, via satellite, have identified a floating object in the southern corridor, which is there off the we

pauline chiou has been spending time with those families in beijing and she now joins us live. th family members did not go very well at all, and now i understand there are new rules for the media. >> reporter: there are, and there is another meeting going on today between the malaysian delegation as well as the families, but the malaysian delegation set down some ground rules in the morning. they said no media. they're worried about cameras in this room and they don't want the presence of media to instigate any more of the drama that we saw yesterday, so that was one of their rules. so, we couldn't have access to what was going in, amara, but we did talk with people as they were coming out to find out what was going on in this meeting. and we do know that the families are still meeting with these officials as we're approaching dinner time. now, the malaysian government has sent a new technical team from the civil aviation authority to talk to family members today. they answered questions this afternoon about the plane. but we also got a sense that the level of frustration and c

she talked with pauline chiou. >> me and most of the relatives here are seeking for the truth, the truthto the plane and the truth about where it was. that's what we want. >> reporter: why don't you believe the data and the answers from the malaysian government? because you have said time and time again that you believe the malaysian government is actually hiding something. >> yes. >> w >> >> reporter: why do you believe that? >> well, because it's from a theory, a nnalysis from the satellite data. there's nothing found. so i don't believe any such kind of conclusion. >> reporter: now the data from the satellite company and from the u.k. aviation authority has been collected and the malaysian authorities have taken that into account, and when you take into account also the amount of fuel that the plane would have had at that point, they're saying the logical conclusion is that it was in this part of the southern corridor in the southern third indian ocean. >> yes. >> reporter: why is that not good enough for you? >> because it is still a theory. it is just still analysis. no one have see

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pauline chiou spoke with some of the family members and joins us from beijing with a little bit more. are they holding up? >> reporter: it's been a really difficult week, brooke. there is a deep sense of desperation as precious time has been lost. it's evening here in asia as day six wraps up in this mystery and families are still very much looking for answers. [ speaking foreign language ] this man cries out in desperation, "i can still reach my son's mobile phone! you need to find him quickly!" but six days into the search, airline officials have little to say and few concrete answers. the nightmare started on saturday. families of the passengers rushed to beijing's airport, full of fear and uncertainty. malaysia airlines flight 370 had disappeared. the airline shuttled families into various beijing hotels, trying to provide updates inside this conference room. [ speaking foreign language ] this woman's only son was on the flight. she says, "we only live because of our children. what's the point of having money without our children? my only demand is to have my son come back peacefu