Relevant with the examples of online technology. Vietnams govern is trying to stop a wave of antichina septemberiment that swept the country. After days of riots targeting chineseowned factories. China is sending five warships to rescue people caught up in the violence triggered by territorial dispute in the South China Sea. More from beijing. Reporter after days of often violent antichinese protests, the vietnamese authorities appear to be containing the disturb answers. Police broke up this small protest in ho chi ming city sunday morning. Protesting to halt deepsea oil in vietnam. Efforts to chase the chinese rig away from the waters. The skirmishes have been going on for almost two weeks. The worry is that it could soon get out of control. Like china, vietnams government is communist and tends to keep a lid on dissent but it was unable stop days of violence in a third of the countrys provinces. Some attacked chineserun factories although many were taiwan easeowned, a distinction that was lost on the rioters. The trouble began after china moved an oil rig close to the contested pariselle islands claimed by vietnam t further sounds, beijing is involved in another sovereignty tulsa ovwit the philippines over the Paracel Islands. Now, china is getting nationals out of vietnam, sending five war ships to speed up evacuation efforts. We are sending some very experienced people to vietnam. Reporter more than three,000 chinese citizens have fled the country. Worried about the economic fallout, vietnams government is promising to protect all investors. China and taiwan are among the biggest. We whether they remain so is in doubt. The response of the government to the attack on the citizens has so far been restrained. There will be no counter demonstrations here there could be a good reason for that. The authorities are willing to allow protests so close to the university of the studentled protests almost 25 years ago. Adrian brown, al jazeera, beijing. Relations between the two countries have been freshed. Border and fighting through the 80s and 80s and they improved in the 90s as they embraced freemarket capitalism and developed better trade ties but the relationship has deteriorated in recent years because of the disagreement of a territory in the South China Sea, the Paracel Islands claimed by several countries. Its thought the area could contain rich mineral deposits. Roderickwise, an analyst joins us from london. Welcome. Thank you for joining us. This incident has touched a nerve. What do you think is going on here . Well, it is certainly a reflex of a longstanding tension between china and vietnam, particularly over the Paracel Islands, i think, where the chinese occupied those in the 1970s. And the vietnamese have felt frustrated ever since they have been unable to asserthane other claim to sovereignty there . Is this a sign of chinas rising domnence and increasing confidence . I think this is the big thing that has changed in the region, the increasing power and influence of china and the increasing willingness of china to stand up for and promote what it sees as its own interest. Others see this as more of an assertive aggressive posture by china. The latest move by the chinese of moving that oil rig into areas that were clearly sensitive from a vietnamese perspective. The chinese easy would have been well aware of what they were doing. From a vietnamese perspective, how far can they push this considering how important china is as a trading partner . This is the dilemma for them. I think the vietnamese authorities will have been surprised by the violence that erupted in the last few days. They are happy to see their people supporting their position, but this violence, which really threatens the longterm Economic Development of vietnam, i think, is much more concerning for them. So their problem is how to contain that, how to maintain the Foreign Investment in vietnam but, at the same time, not to give an inch to the chinese over teartorial claims. And worrying or secretly happy, the u. S. , what are they making of this . The u. S. , i dont think they are secretly happy. I mean it is worrying. The increasing tensions in the South China Sea involving vietnam and the philippines in particular are concerning because they could lead to violence, more violence than we have seen already. They could lead to naval clashes and, certainly in the case of the philippines, that might somehow involve the United States. And this is something that the United States is not willing to see. At the same time, it wishes to show that it is fully supportive of its friends and allies in the region. Always good to get your thoughts, roderic wye. The worst at the fighting in a century the worst flooding in a century, the rising flood water threatening serbias biggest power plant as peter sharp reports. Reporter with more than 25,000 people being driven from their homes, as the flood waters from the saba river continue to rise, the priority for the rescue crews is the evacuation of the sick and elderly. But many of the most vulnerable remain trapped and they are now running out of food and drinking water. It is a massive logistics operation thats threatening to completely overwhelm serbias emergency services. On dry ground, helicopters shuttle between the riverbank and local hospitals, ferrying those too weak to walk. Translator a lot of people are in their xwoorts. There were a lot of elderly and people who didnt want to leave their homes. They stayed behind. More than 4,000 people, exhausted, carrying nothing but a few belongings boarded coaches for the emergency shelters set up in schools and sports arenas. It could be a long time before they will be able to return home. Over stretched local rescue teams are now being backed up by civilian volunteers. People call us from all over the country to offer help. I hope that stays the same over the coming days when people in the affected areas will really need all of the help they can get. The countrys biggest power station cited on the very banks of the saba river is under threat. Power has been cut as local coal mines were flooded. Waters have reached the basement of the plant. A total shutdown would blackout the entire region. At the very height of this national emergency. Peter sharp, al jazeera. A rejected proposal to introduce the worlds highest minimum wage. First projections from the referendum suggest 77 of people voted against workers being paid at least 25 an hour. Its good news for Business Owners who were worried it would lead to job cuts. The proposal by swiss unions was an attempt to reduce the income gap. A Building Collapse in north korea has prompted a public apology. Its feared hundreds of people are dead after an apartment block collapsed in upping yang. Around 92 families were living in the 23story building. Modis Prime Minister says his country is at war mr. Mara. At a time stacked the Governors Office in the area. The Prime Minister was trying to revive peace talks with the rebe rebels. A no 9 zone over benghazi following violence between forces led by a retired army general and fighters based in the city. At least 79 people were killed. Benghazis libyas second biggest city and the birthplace of the 2011 revolution. Since then, its been a battleground between the army and militia groups. Retired general kalifa hafta sees himself as the chief of the self high proclaimed National Armed forces. He has the support of some officers and army units and he is said to be funded by a foreign state. His process are Affordable Care acted of losing control of the forces who took part any revolution. Hafta is said to be backed by tribes and his actions amount to a coup. Live from the capitol, trip oli, what is government saying about all of this, their reaction . Reporter well, they are accusing general hafta of staging a coup against the legitimacy of the libyan leadership, against the government and against an elected body that is the general national council. The head of the gnc ordered the troops loyal to the army and, as well, ex rebels, to stand firm and defend benghazi from any attacking forces. They call them the people of benjamin they called on the people of benghazi to show selfrestraint and do not allow and do not give general hafta a chance to infiltrate and stage his coup against the revolution that top tell colonel gadaffi. How serious is this situation, omar . Reporter it is very serious, jane. The General National Congress held a session and that session was to discuss or vote on the a proposed cap net by the new Prime Minister of this country. Put aside and they will be discuss can about three days time. However, benghazi in this situation, pecan pecan took priority. They didnt take any decisive decision, which tells you how weak the government, how weak the gnc, basically shows you the power of militias and the weak government that cannot rein in those militias. On the other hand, it shows you a group of fighters who are loyal to general hafta are trying to impose their authority saying the government is weak and they are trying to control and curb the spread, what they call the spread of extremism in benghazi. Remember, benghazi saw unprecedented wave of assassinations and bombings. When you read the Global Reports on terrorism by state department t gives you a very big picture about libya. It says libya is now a safe haven for terrorists and a Transit Route for those terrorists to other countries. Thank you, omar. More to come on the news hour, including alqaeda has created a threat for the transition. Yemen calls on help in its fight against alqaeda. Plus, brace for a boycut unrest in Eastern Ukraine casting a shadow over the upcoming president ial election. Athlet co madrid are waking up after a night of celebrating their spanish title while barcelona begin a search for a new manager. Details coming up with robyn. Reports from syria suggest the countrys air force chief has been killed during fierce fighting near the capitol damascus, one of the highest ranking killed. Trying to renight after the fall of homes. Osama bin jalad has the latest. These fighters say they are continuing with the siege of the few remaining military basis under government control. Rebels showed these tanks taken from sir yas forces after days of first battles. They said they are preparing for an allout offensive translator by the grace of god, we have liberated five military positions using weapons we received from the assad army. The military posts are strategically positioned and both sides know it. Syrian yes, sir are providing air support for soldiers surrounded by rebels. These pictures uploaded on the internet appear to show supplies being dropped for besieged government troops. Syrian state t. V. Says Government Forces have taken more areas on the outskirts of damascu damascus and aleppo. Some fighters are trying to unite. Five rebel groups who say they have more than 50,000 fighters say they have decided to Work Together to overthrow the regime. Leaders of the islamic front, and others agreed to move away from extremim and called on other groups to unite. Toppling the regime is a joint operation shared by all revolutionary forces. We welcome cooperating with reaming n regional and International Parties and supporting the Syrian People in a matter that serbs the revolutions interest. Our forces rely on syrian individuals andplasty the military and political decisions under the ref russ must be purely made by sirians and reject subordination under any foreign forces. But activists say deep divisions remain among opposition fighters leading to infighting which has weakened their control and helped president Bashar Al Assads forces. An Egyptian Court has jailed more than 160 Muslim Brotherhood supporters. The country is cracking down on the group in a lead up to the president ial election. International election observers say they have had to scale back plans to monitor next weeks poll. The eu says its team hasnt been given permission to bring security and safety equipment. Because of this, it will only send a small team to monitor polls in cairo. Jimmie carter has warned egypts transition to democracy is faltering. His organization, the carter center, will not be sending observers either. Al jazeera is demanding the Immediate Release of its journalists who have been in prison in egypt for 140 days. The trial was adjourned on thursday. They are accused of conspiring with the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood. Access rejects the charges against them. They are due back in court on the 22nd of may. The fourth detained al jazeera journalist says he will continue to refuse food. He has been held without trial since last august and has been on a Hunger Strike for nearly four months. In a receipt letter, he confirmed he was placed in solitary confinement where attempts had been made to force feed him. He says the authorities were trying to dent his resolve. Residents in nigeria in borno say they are considering launching a Community Search group to find more than 200 school girls kidnapped last month. West African Leaders have pledged to wage what they are calling total war on boko haram. The armed group that took the girls. They met in anticipates to discuss a strategy to deal with the rebels this report. Reporter the government of borneau has renewed the commitment in the paris conference saying this is something that they have called for, for a very long time. Any attempts to try to find boko haram to fight boko haram without a cross border cooperation and effort was a wasted effort in their own words. They say the borders are very long and porous and that has enand the fighters to move freely across the border without a strong schmidtment from the neighbors, they say, of nigeria to fight boko haram. It was all along thought that this was nigerias problem alone. Now with this conference, with this renewed effort, they can finally see all of the region cooperating in confronting boko haram. We have also seen a lot of civilian checkpoints here on the ground. Civilians have said that they have really born the brunt of these attacks and they werent not going to wait for these attacks. They have mobilized groups of hunters to try to find the girls in the forest where they believe to have been taken to. But they say they have not sent out those hunters yet in fear that that would contradict and conflick with the Ongoing International efforts to find the dpirlz. Ukraineians are preparing to fight in next weeks elections. Separatists in the east of the country are trying to disrupt the poll. Kim vannel reports where some people are too scared to go to the polling stations. In the russianspeaking east cam papering ahead of the president ial election is well underway but separatists occupying state buildings have declared an independent republic say people arent going to vote. The newly appointed Prime Minister of the donetsks peoples republic says those tasked with organizing the vote are quitting. People are just leaving all of these socalled polling stations, the election commissions and going home. There is no pressure on them. Its simple. These elections are not interesting to anybody. The moscowborn and raised lead ter told me his troops wont use force to stop the votes but according to one election monitoring group, they are already trying to do just that. Six of the 10 people come to the commission, the building of the commission with guns, with some and now said in donetsk, it is the Donetsk Republic and unlegal to organize president ial election of ukraine. He said. 6 out of 22 electoral officers in the Donetsk Region have been shutdown. We found one of them. The sign says that the Electoral Commission responsibility for the foument polling district is not working. The gate isnt locked, but there is no one inside. While looking for someone to speak to, we found a sign with a flag of the donetsk peoples republic that says the offices inside have been sealed although life continues as normal for many here, the volatility of the region isnt going unnoticed. Fears of next sundays vote arent easily batted away. I am worried about my safety at the polling station. There could be provocations. Some people using force. This just doesnt make sense. The Central Election Commission says its prepared with thousands of monitors on standby and is urging people to vote, but one poll shows that in the east, more than 32 of people plan on staying home. Another 31 arent sure who they will vote for or whether they will vote at all. Thats stalking fears could could not past election day by fueling calls the outcome isnt representative. Kim vinnell, al jazeera, dondon. The bad weather in the balkans, the worst rains and floodings in almost a century and speak to richard about that. Is it going to get any better for them there . I am not going to focus on that at this time because as i said last time, i think most of the rain is gone from the region. What will be the issue there is just seeing what happens to the rain thats falling. Flood waters working their way down the saba river and into the danube and flood plain region. The good news is there is no rain to come. What they need at the moment is across the u. S. , particularly in the west and the issue theyve got with the wildfires out there. Thats what i was going to focus on now. You have a look at weather charts. Thats the weather front which gave a lot of heavy rain across the mid at landic states and eastern seaboard on its way out. This front stejdz is active across the sout