Carla Zeus delivering your objective explanation of world events And today that includes news concerning India, Japan and Serbia.

First to the moon.

Things have not gone as planned in a recent mission by India to make a soft landing on the lunar surface.

Soft landing means a spacecraft has a slow controlled descent, and spacecraft from only three countries the United States, China and the former Soviet Union have ever done this.

India's attempt to become the fourth country in that club probably ended in failure over the weekend, we say, probably because scientists aren't sure yet what happened.

There are three components to its mission.

An orbiter to circle the moon, a lander to touch down on it and a rover attached to the lander.

On Saturday, the lander was descending toward the moon's surface.

It was a little more than a mile above it when contact was lost.

Scientists don't know yet how hard it hit the moon, how bad the damage might be or whether the instruments aboard can still get some work done.

They have located it, but they're still trying to get a signal from it, even if it's destroyed.

Though the mission isn't a total loss, the orbiter is still doing its job circling the moon.

Its mission is to map the moon's surface and the study its atmosphere.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was in the mission control room when contact with the lander was lost, he said in life, their ups and downs, but that India is still proud of its scientists and their hard work back in the Western Hemisphere.

And American aid official says it looks like nuclear bombs were dropped on parts of the Bahamas.

It's been more than a week since Hurricane Dorian, then a Category five storm, made landfall there, and the fact that it moved so slowly over the Bahamas northern islands only worsened its effects.

While 45 people have been confirmed dead, officials expect the number will rise drastically as search and rescue officials make their way through the wreckage.

The U.

S Agency for International Development, which gives money and assistance to people in need, says it plans to contribute almost $3 million to the relief effort in the Bahamas.

Entire neighborhoods there have been lost to get to the place is still cut off by Hurricane Dorian Way have to go by boat.

We've been traveling now for about two hours by boat.

It's the only way to get here.

This is our destination, the easternmost end of Grand Bahama Island.

We know that you got hit really hard, but not much else.

The road is still closed here and we have not heard how the people here are doing.

We really don't know what we're gonna find here.

We head from Freeport to McLane's town, the last settlement on the eastern tip of Grand Bahama.

Dorian filled in the channel and scattered cars throughout the small harbour.

We have to navigate around the submerged vehicles.

We're going over a car right now.

It's a car under water there.

McLane's looks like a war zone and there are fatalities.

McLane's has been wiped off the map.

It's difficult to conceive the force that could cause this kind of damage.

It's just otherworldly to think winds in the water.

I could bury so much of this town under broken trees, broken houses and we really don't know what is underneath all of this rub.

It'll probably take weeks or longer to dig out and find out what is buried here all around us.

Isn't Yuri Quiet?

It is a sound the town that has died.

But the Bahamas isn't the only place dealing with the effects of a severe storm.

Across the Pacific, Japan has just weathered a powerful typhoon named Fox I.

It made landfall in the mainland Monday with wind gusts as high as 120 miles per hour, and it passed over the Japanese capital of Tokyo.

Electricity went out for almost a 1,000,000 households and more than 100 flights were canceled, which stranded 6800 passengers at one of Tokyo's to international airports.

Highways were closed, rail lines were shut down.

Ships were forced to stay in port, so the typhoon temporarily paralysed transportation and the Japan Meteorological Agency had warned residents to stay inside anyway.

This happened five days after a separate storm hit North and South Korea.

Typhoon Ling Ling brought high winds and heavy rains to the region, damaging homes, farms and thousands of buildings.

Typhoons are hurricanes are cyclones.

They are the same thing just in different oceans.

A lot like hot cake is a flapjack is a pancake is a short stack.

If you are west of the Dateline, so west of Hawaii, north of the equator, you're a typhoon.

If you're in the Atlantic to the Pacific, around America, you are hurricane, and if you're around the Indian Ocean or in the Southern Hemisphere, you're a cyclone.

So it's not out of the question for a hurricane to become a typhoon if it moves over the date line.

In fact, after crossing the international Dateline, Hurricane Genevieve turned into Typhoon Genevieve a few years ago.

Fell Great is the capital of what landlocked European country Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania or Serbia Get to Belgrade.

You have to travel to Serbia, a nation a little smaller than the U.

S.

State of South Carolina.

As the crow flies, Belgrade is almost the exact same distance from Beijing, China, as it is from Washington, D.

C.

Belgrade's a little over 4600 miles from each capital.

Yet the small European country of Serbia has become significant to both east and west, with China and America Wrestling toe have influence there, According to the U.

S.

Central Intelligence Agency, China is Serbia's third largest import partner, behind Germany and Italy, which are much closer.

And while Serbia's government type is a parliamentary republic a form of democracy, it's a communist state that many Serbian see as their nation's good friend.

Follow the tracks on the outskirts of Belgrade and you get to Central Europe.

Follow the money and you end up somewhere very different.

The new tracks bear the markings of China Railways, one of the major Chinese projects in Serbia, moving the Balkan country from its traditional allies in the west to the Red dragon in the Far East.

This'll steel mill was once owned by U.

S Steel.

When it couldn't make money, the Americans sold it to the Serbian government for $1 until the Chinese stepped in.

Retired construction worker police love Milenkovic says the move saved his hometown.

People do see the Chinese here as rescuers.

We would like them to stay here if they leave.

This would mean disaster for many of us.

China bought the plant for a premium of $51 million then poured more money into it in villages here that rely on the steel mill for employment.

It is China that looks like the savior.

It builds this perception that it's Beijing to the rescue and it grows Serbia's reliance on a different superpower.

It's not just infrastructure.

Chinese police will soon start patrolling in Serbia, given arise Chinese Tourism Telecom from Wa ways installing surveillance cameras in the capital of Belgrade.

And there are plans for Huawei to build a five G network here, despite US security concerns about the Chinese tech giant.

All of it is a red flag to America.

We're trying to support them to move in one direction.

They should be careful about where they're going.

Kyle Scott is the U.

S.

Ambassador to Serbia, part of an effort to bring the two countries closer.

Last month, with White House hosted the serving foreign minister in Washington, who then urged Serbs in America to support President Donald Trump.

The door of friendship is open, but China is coming in bringing money and loans for Serbia, which didn't respond to our request for comment.

The new attention means a boost to the economy, much needed infrastructure projects and a powerful friend coming into the region.

Ah, it's a bird, it's a plane, it's a motor home, it's a shed.

And if you think that sounds like no ordinary shed.

You're right.

This garden storage unit on four wheels is powered by a 4.2 liter V eight, and it's capable of going faster than 80 miles per hour.

So why would someone build this and then put 34,000 miles on it?

Well, it did set a Guinness World record for fastest garden shed.

So if you need to get your tools fast, well, barrel through traffic or test the limits of spade.

Don't throw in the trowel.

Hop in the speed shed and rake in a record for host power while leaving your competition in sheer defeat at a dusty fork in the road of Carla Zeus.

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