. >>> a very tense situation in how muchman city, vietnam. a lot of police officers gather around the building inside. they are dealing with a hostage situation. the negotiations have been going on for hours with police and the man inside. the negotiations are not going well. at one point, the man inside gets all the officers to leave. you'll see why in this moment of the video. watch the staircase. the man only in briefs has a knife and an eight-year-old girl as his hostage. he is waving the knife around. you see him trying to escape the police by holding the knife and holding the knife at this girl's throat. at that moment, a cop sneaks up and hits his arm with the knife. other police officers attack the man to the ground and yank this 8-year-old girl to safety. >> he didn't manage to cut her? >> nope. she got away uninjured in this chaos thankfully. police able to get this guy in cuffs and they haul him off. from loose reports, we were able to translate, this man had some sort of dispute with his landlord. he went back to the apartment. th