Officials be alarmed. Well take a closer look and a huge storm hits china dumping heavy rains and forcing tens of thousands to fleet the floods and mud slides. The a. My name is melissa chan, thanks for joining us. Talk this don is holding funerals for the victims of a massive suicide bonding on sunday. At the time of recording the death toll has risen to at least 45. 00 with more than 100. 00. Others wounded. The attacker blew himself up at a political rally in the brochure district. Thats a low towel region and pocket stones northwest, near the ask and border, an area that was once controlled by the pockets, donnie tal up on. There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but investigators suspect the involvement of the Islamic StateGroup Officials pledge to hunt down those behind the bombing hundreds of follow woods of the gem. Yet lemay islam asked spotty, turned up for this sunday afternoon. Raleigh so many that the organizers puts up extra 10 to the crowds. As they were announcing the arrival of the apache official development detonated his device directly next to the stage where the leadership was sitting. Close by when the blast occurred to when i arrived at the scene and was met with a devastating sight, lifeless bodies scattered across the ground. People crying out for help amid the blood stained surroundings, well see them. People were picking up the bodies on their own. Well, im not sure what i did. Victims of the bombing would take him to the local hospital in to nearby to shower. No group is claimed responsibility for the attack, but the officials pointing the finger at the local so called is lubbock state grape of all the gem yet. Well i may, is lamb s is a conservative islam is potty. I s the keys. Its lead to, 1st of all, over the amount of hypocrisy for supporting the pakistani government hostile to the as why make state. Last year i said it was behind a tax, so im going to just call us link to the potty. Officials issued this warning. We contains todays blast, and if in the future, tell me at work, this should again be targeted. We will be free to have our own protect ourselves. Our value on the cd elite is set. The bombing was intended to weaken the potty head of elections expected lights. It makes you insisting that the tax of this nature will not then that result Ethnic Chinese make up about 75 percent of single pores population constituting the Largest Ethnic Group in the multi racial country. That also includes malays and indians. And over the past decade badging has stepped up as its efforts to reach out to chinese single portions in a way that has drawn concern from the city states political establishment. Notably, the Chinese Communist party has sought to build relationships with singapore and media, giving journalists special access in return for favorable coverage. You may remember the disappearance of chinese tennis star punch, white. She had accused a senior official in china of Sexual Assault as global concern about her wellbeing group and briefly re appeared speaking to singapore, a newspaper, me and her cell phone are joining us is shabani matoney of the washington post. She published a Major Investigation examining the relationship between china and to singapore. And shes also co author of an upcoming book among the braves hope struggle and eggs out in the battle for hong kong in the future of global democracy. Written along with Timothy Mclaughlin shabani. Lets look a bit more at media. We mentioned the newspaper, liam, how about, how does its coverage appear to reflect beatings, point of view. Yes, so to do this investigation, we basically compiled about 800 articles from softball, and you know, what, what we wanted to do was a very forensic examination of the coverage. And so we, we divided this by categories of topics that would be sensitive to, to china. Or topics that, you know, being has such a kind of control the narrative for example, you know, the ongoing human rights abuses in John Hong Kong and the pro democracy and, you know, move in the taiwan and basically on, on, you know, all of the sensitive topics we found that itself, i was actually, you know, more using the mainland sources. So ccp official sources. They were using pro, vision media and really not offering that much of a kind of val, its a kind of point. And these are the sensitive topics. And along the same that we also found that their opinion, um section actually had a number of um, ccp, you know, katia officials involved in actually propaganda writing. These are pets but they will not be identified as such. Just simply identified as China Affairs coming to this. And so what impact does Something Like that have on ethic, chinese and singapore . Yes. So, you know, the one really interesting thing thats been happening in, in recent years is that the ethic trinity is population single floor, especially um, southern parts of it. Older, older people specifically have to come more and more sort of over the probation in the views. You know, people have been posting on read it single, which is very vibrant for him. Saying that the parents, instead of being radical, i as you know i, i grew up in single pool. So i said friends told me that the parents, you know, were pretty kind of like neutral a political and suddenly become very, very straight to be provisioning. And you know, that was seen during coven, but some of them were even psych stream that they only wanted to take the final back, even though the simple government was really advising to take, you know, 5, so might interest the inventory, big seats. And so, you know, looking at the school media landscape, were very interested to figure out like, where lot of this radicalization was coming from. A lot of it comes from you know, forwarded whats up messages from tv and so on. But so far as like a very trusted newspaper here, you know, a flagship like ship brought sheet of paper and the, the, the, the narratives will only being sort of backed up all sort of haunted by the coverage in cell phone, right . They wouldnt offer any kind of alternative view, they werent offering that sort of kind of balance or kind of point. And then thats, thats what our investigation. So how is this playing out politically . Are singapore and officials worried . Yeah, i mean, i think, i think thats a really, really interesting question. I think single pool has, has, you know, for so long have this policy of, of kind of neutrality that please will make us 6 sides. You know, we have this very Strong Defense relationship with us, but we also have this very strong uh, you know, and always relationship and obvious cultural ties were trying to, um, and i think the so long as they can pause also, you know, how to manage the fact that it is a majority Ethnic Chinese stayed within a very diverse se, asia, right . I mean, indeed, the whole founding story as think of what was that of multiethnic multiculturalism over sort of, you know, being a, you know, purchasing anyone ones that have ethnic group. So i think i think the same over in his sort of have to be very careful and dealing with this thing they, they dont seem to want to kind of upset bilateral relationships with china. But at the same great, i think they realize that, you know, if too many singaporeans are really starting to subscribe to this narrative of, of this sort of, you know, trying to dream s. S that a promot advice. You can ping like that has a very sort of time. I think chinese sort of been true, but then i think they realize that the fabric of singapore itself could, could really be threatened. Great. But, you know, its, its, its been interesting to see how they have to kind of, to the line between, between that written up setting china, but also not letting this get out of that book. Really looking at Southeast Asia on is beatings, focus on the single port, any different then its activities elsewhere in the region. Actually, the interesting thing is that we found that, you know, sample was not really an isolated case here. I think, you know, in, in melisha way of that thing, chinese population have had given historical and long term sort of grievances that because of you know, very ethnic policies that the state has. You see more and more, i think trinity is also kind of subscribing will be they come in, you know, very, very probation in the, in the view point and then will view. And that is also true in pockets in the nation or thailand to associates. We didnt look as closely, but it is, it is a regional story, right . I mean, china being the, the, the biggest neighbor here, us, china being sort of the defining issue. You know, of all time it has really polarized a big part of a Society Ready to meet with you have people becoming more and more afraid of me for us actually. And so i think the school arise ation. Right. Is this to me something that, that, that is very carefully managed by governments all across the region, but especially when it comes to the Chinese Community just because the presence, this is so chinese of the Mainland China and taiwan who come shabani, latan 8. Thank you. So much for joining us. Ty, phone dexterity continues to leave behind a path of destruction after hitting the philippines, anti one. It has now dumped heavy rain across china, including engaging it is one of the strongest storms to hit the country in years, forcing people to fleet from flood waters. The government has issued a red alert across the capital and several provinces, a devastation. As far as the i can see, the effect, what does yes, to homes forced in hundreds of thousands to fit in eastern footing on programs. Many were stranded for hours before rescue teams. By a non so d, i visit into 80. I was hate 5 mazda of plants, like filling the streets with much and debris. The destruction cost by lance lights has blocked edwards into many remote areas, making access to fit good for rescue teams. So all we encountered mudslides in land slides when we were on the way to the disaster area. And we had to clear the area with other rescuers to create a safe path. This dawn lift more than a 1000000 homes without problem, cousins would take and to get back to ation center office, youd see big down which would run into the 10s of millions of dollars after wreaking havoc in south eastern china, stifling duck city. Continue north, here in the broken for puppies. Are just you helicopter point out demand hoops, car was followed by the region. What the the gap between the quarter, the heaviest screen for this, the on the to the step of selecting for more than 31000 people to see the homes. Doc for the its one of the strongest stones to hit china on yours. And thats it weakens our product, you said greasing for another di phone, which is set to strike, join us to keep up with the, to go this week. And thats it for the program. You can always catch more news from the region on our website, d, w dot com, forward slash asia louis a chance. Thanks for watching and goodbye. As the sad thing is. It says to move on to the basic goals facing the country with featured guessing push fast even from the families. I can be the only, there was the weekend to use it a lot more now i will actually on the, on the, on the slicing social moons seeking their self determined life. Lets go from drudgery and abuse stuff. August 5th on d. W. The belt and road regret it today is government says is looking for ways of accepting china is massive Infrastructure Programs that kind of do so without crushing relations with badging and far it is mike and work as of walking away as a new law as crunched down on and documented labor as a state of your business on robots in bell, and welcome to the program. Its a says, its seeking a way out of chinas sprawling belts and Road Initiative from is to georgia and i learned these government says joining the Infrastructure Program 4 years ago. Under a previous government, done the list to, to boost to tell the next boss. Well, chinese exports to actually have sort burden is the only major weston power to join belton road. Critics say its a tool for china to spread its chair, political and economic influence. Of more on this last spring in china, have a list, a phrase, a how you guys have you on the program. Phrase that just tell us this highly and government says that china is the only way to to belton road. Is it right when it says that uh well lets put it this way. As there are 2 winters though not equal 100. 00 is less. But in that way, as the points are, the chinese export stipulates