ninety five percent of global production comes from southern vietnam. in the small village of cunto in the delta a statue has been erected to it right next to that of the father of the country's independence. i'm to discover that this economic success also hides a darker side exploiting the inhabitants as well as the environment. on the river i have an appointment with a busy man who the vietnamese call the panga king mr min. in just under fifteen years he has amassed the fourth richest fortune in the country thanks to his fish farms. he exports paying it to more than thirty different countries including friends for the first time he has accepted to open his doors to television companies. that are going to tell mr min about it and. big fish are feeding over there yet i don't know let's just show them the little fish they're hungry let's go over there. mr minns fortune can be found entirely under the water of these fish ponds. to understand its magnitude he must come here early in the morning and watch the show while the fish have their breakfast. though

so for the southern part of china and for the northern half of vietnam, it's going to be very, very wet as we head through the next couple of days. the westest day is going to be between now and end of friday when we are going to have the most amount of rain and then gradually, that system will work its way away toward the west. following it, there is still doing going to be quite a few showers. so still some heavy rain. the main area of wet weather will be beginning to pull away. >> means on friday for the southern part of china and the north earn parts of vietnam, there is likely to be some flooding. >> thank you very much, steph. lots more to come on the news hour. we will be live in ankara where turkey's first ever head of state elected by popular vote is about to be sworn in. >> later in sport, we will tell you how one rider managed back to backstage wins at the spanish vuelta. >>> welcome back to the news hour. let's remind you the top stories. rig -- rig reuters news agency is saying president poroshenko is describing a russian military invasion. the pro-russian separatists in va

vietnam. we had supported the southerners lit their country and refuse to participate in any elections. i think largely because they knew by the late 1950's they would have lost. ho chi minh had borne the greatest weight in beating the french, and fighting the japanese. they have the nationalist cause. they probably would have won a free election. at the same time, they were communists. free elections are utilitarian. they are not part of the communist toolbox. so there are a lot of vitamins about this. are these folks in the south our friends and allies? forlayed a key role rugby president kennedy was assassinated in 1963 -- we played a key role right before president kennedy was assassinated in 1963 by approving their replacement. in a coup. that seems to be a turning point. american policymakers, including ones close to kennedy, had gotten sick and tired of diem. we were hearing he was going to cut a deal with hanoi. we had a lot of rhetoric about the south is the freedom and the north is the tyranny. diem was not fighting against the north very vigorously or as vigorously as we thou

vietnam concept of search and destroy, passification, strategic hamlets, free fire zones. as such he remains a cardboard figure of our history. a monstrous arch villain to unreconstructed southerners, an embarrassment to northerners who wonder if civilized war died with him. whether without sherman the atom bomb might not have been dropped or vietnam entered. now reston concedes after this passage that maybe he is getting -- this is a more metaphorical than real. but he's -- he is really trying to argue that there is, once you loose the bounds, the bounds were constantly loosed. he's trying to make an argument too that sherman's veterans -- that sherman's soldiers and he put hs them west moreland soldiers has an desire for vengeance and reprisal and where they differed is just in matters of scale which he says is more a function of technology than of desire. and it seems worse in the 19th century because they had weapons of mass destruction and in the in the 19th they didn't. i don't buy it. let me conclude by evoking something what if today? where does sherman fit today? he sometimes is invoked in discussions of the ike waraq wa. again, this would be the dark reaches of internet

the northern parts of vietnam - we have reports of flooding here. the most i have seen for the southern parts, it's over 100mm of rain in the south, and the rain has been heavier, if anything, over parts of taiwan. it's been the rain not just in 24 hours, but over a period of days. in four gays we see over 500mm of rain in places. elsewhere there's more, over 460mm of rain in two days. that is a phenomenal amount of rain. the ground is fully sat rated, having the participation of causing landlids. heavy rain to come for tomorrow. >> thank you very much. still ahead - u.s. president obama calls for calm in the city of st louis following unrest after the shooting of a black teenager. plus... >> i'm in new delhi, wherebying fruits and vegetables may mean bringing pesticides home to dinner. >>> and we look at the crumbling athens olympics in sport. - vé >>> hello again, a reminder of the top storiesies. nouri al-maliki is relating the appointment of his successor, describing it has a violation of the constitution. he's waiting for the federal court to decide whether or not to keep his jobs.

vietnam. in the first of these, the logical rivals were few, who was a catholic, albeit a southern catholic, and marshal ki, who was at least a nominal buddhist. marshall ki, who you may remember, was rather colorful character who was known to the population as mr. mustache. the embassy, rather obviously, favored thu, and the result was there was an election in which there was a ticket and ki accepted the vice-presidency. so it wasn't much of an election. it was a forgone conclusion. the second vietnamese election, the same thing took place. there was a possible candidacy of general mein. otherwise nope as big mean -- otherwise known as big mean, and the embassy discouraged it, and ultimately there was an eflex which the army candidate, thu, opposed some rather underfinance vietnamese civilians with the result that might be expected. after this first part of his tenure in vietnam, which lasted for four years, negroponte was then assigned to work at the paris peace conference, and he did not like this assignment much. because his view and that of anthony lake and various other people on the ameri

vietnam. in the latest incident afghan police officer turned his gun on a group of colleagues at the check point in southern afghanistan killing seven afghan police officers. meanwhile the pentagon is conducting an investigation into the death of that two-star general green who was gunned down yesterday at the military base near kabul. green was serving his first combat deployment in his 34-year career. today his body is being flown to dover air force base in delaware. the family issued the statement through an army spokesperson. >> they believe that the army, as well as afghanistan and america has lost a true hero. he believed in what he was doing over there and proud to serve. and the family would like that to be known. >> joining me now nbc news chief. i know, you're going to update us on the investigation as to what happened but the background of general green and his families. this is a military family top to bottom. >> that's right, tamron. general green himself served 34 years and had three master's degree, one ph.d. primarily in engineering. he was mostly a logistics guy. it was not unusual that he

vietnam. in the latest incident afghan police officer turned his gun on a group of colleagues at the check point in southernfghanistan killing seven afghan police officers. meanwhile the pentagon is conducting an investigation into the death of that two-star general green who was gunned down yesterday at the military base near kabul. green was serving his first combat deployment in his 34-year career. today his body is being flown to dover air force base in delaware. the family issued the statement through an army spokesperson. >> they believe that the army, as well as afghanistan and america has lost a true hero. he believed in what he was doing over there and proud to serve. and the family would like that to be known. >> joining me now nbc news chief. i know, you're going to update us on the investigation as to what happened but the background of general green and his families. this is a military family top to

vietnam concept of search and destroy, pacification, strategic hamlets, free fire zones. as such, he remains a cardboard figure of our history, a monstrous arch-villain to unreconstructed southerners. an embarrassment to northerners who wonder if civilized war died with him, whether without sherman the atom bomb might not have been dropped or vietnam entered. reston concedes after this passage that maybe he's -- he's more metaphorical than real, but he's really trying to argue that there is, once you loose the bounds, the bounds are constantly loosed. he's trying to make an argument, too, that sherman's veterans, that sherman's soldiers and as he puts them westmoreland's soldiers had more important things in common, being animated by a desire for vengeance and a desire for reprisal and where they differed, according to reston, was just in matters of scale, which he says is more a function of technology than of desire, that it seems worse in the 20th century because men had weapons of mass destruction, and in the 19th, they didn't. not -- i don't buy it completely. in order -- let me just conclude by invoking something, what of today? where does sherman fit today? he's sometimes in