we report from the capital, kathmandu.he election are described as a watershed moment what this country. it witnessed a 10—year insurgency which ended in 2006 and then the monarchy was abolished two years later. it took ten yea rs abolished two years later. it took ten years for the politicians to agree on a constitution, that was last year, and that is why this election is important. the first after they have adopted a new constitution. in this election, the congress is taking on a coalition. first of all, they have the best infrastructure and create more jobs. the country witnessed a devastating earthquake in 2015 — that had a negative impact on the economy. 0ne of the priorities will be what to do with china initiative. nepal approved in principle which aims to boost productivity in asia and the pacific region. the idea is to build a road from their all the way to kathmandu. politicians here hope by investing millions of dollars with chinese help, it will help to boost the economic road in this country. the internationa

in the mountains of kathmandu, these buddhist nuns, of the drukpa lineage, call themselves ‘the kungking down gender roles. now, more than 200 of them are leaving their mountain nunnery in nepal and swapping their maroon robes for lycra leggings. they are taking their message of female empowerment to the road, cycling through nepal and india to promote gender equality. we are starting our fifth cycle yatra today and our main mission is about giving awareness about women empowerment, eco—friendly environment, and human trafficking. nepal is still struggling to recover from the 2015 earthquake, and modern—day slavery is a growing problem. the country's human rights commission estimated there were more than 23,000 cases of trafficking or attempted trafficking last year. the nuns say they came across several such victims while volunteering after the earthquake. we had this idea of going on the cycle yatra and all the remote places, and telling the people, we are all girls, girls are capable of doing everything, they are not useless, they are not things to sell. the nuns will spend the ne

in the mountains of kathmandu, these buddhist nuns called themselves the kung fu nuns.breaking down gender roles. now, more than 200 are leaving their nunnery in nepal and swapping their robes for lycra. they are taking their message of female empowerment to the road, cycling to promote gender equality. we are starting our fifth ride today and our main mission is giving awareness and empowerment, eco— friendly environment and human tragedy. nepal is still struggling to recover from the 2000 feet an earthquake and modern day slavery is a growing problem. the human rights commission says it is a more than 23,000 cases of trafficking or attempted trafficking last year. the nuns say they came across several such big while volunteering after the earthquake. we had this idea of cycling and telling the people, girls are capable of doing anything, they are not useless and that they are not things to sell. they will cycle of 3000 kilometres from kathmandu to delhi and then to the north indian city. bright flashing lights lit up the sky over the us state of arizona on friday even

just before dawn here in kathmandu, rico, and many would say nepal is waking up to a new political dawne elections, they represent the last stage of a peace process that started 11 years ago when the violent conflict ended and in many ways in that period we have gone from, well, war to peace, monarchy to republic, and the country itself has been mired in instability and yet i think there's a lot of hope these elections will bring a new era of stability and that the country will finally move forward with economic growth and job creation. kunda, what is the representation like among the candidates standing in this election? are there many old politicians or are we seeing new faces who will inject vibrancy into the political system? well, one reason for a bit of cynicism is that although there is hope that this will bring in a new era, there are a lot of old faces who have not performed in the past, people tainted with corruption, a lot of candidates who are businessmen and contractors and that is one reason for the cynicism. the other is that we're going into really uncharted territory be

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fighters and the communist party has claimed a landslide victory in the general elections reports from kathmandu. the post so called left alliance has painted the country red after what's being seen as a momentous picture both parliamentary the provincial elections observers were surprised by the electoral marriage between his former fighters and the pals communist party or unified marxist leninist their union paid off handsomely at the polls nepali congress the oldest democratic party lost badly the left alliance won around two thirds of the seats in the lower house yes much destroys the input ends up coming together as communist we hope that the noncommunist will also form alliances and. the system for five years will work closely with nearby people and we will delhi bar promise of economic development. in their election campaign the left alliance promised stability and economic development unstable coalitions have meant her party has had nine governments in the past ten years this month's election was the first since the new constitution was drafted in two thousand and fifteen a major step to

earthquake disaster two and a half years ago still living in temporary housing perhaps more from kathmandu. calls it than at seven a.m. local time and voting has been going on in fifteen thousand polling so centers across the country that mean long queues and people are quite excited about this election we talked to some people who are saying that it is a very important election because they are right. for such a long time for this country to be a federal republic now there is a level of cynicism as well especially with the young people that we've talked to largely because they're concerned that the same old faces will be elected again there is a three percent threshold for new political parties and one person at least one person from this from new political parties have to be elected in the first past the post sister while people are hopeful that this will happen there is also a bit of concern that it might not happen these polls happen in two different phases the first one happened in the mountains where climate was challenging geography was challenging and this and this station around t

with thousands of police and soldiers deployed so when a stressed out reports now from the capital kathmandu. most of the party voters seem to be undeterred by a series of explosions which marred both campaigning and election day queues started for me and got a menu from early morning to two state and national assembly this is the second phase of elections with more than twelve million eligible voters from forty five districts taking part now living in more remote mountainous areas voted late last month and soon after polls open we've found a ninety eight year old cultural historian who are just cast his ballot people are one step to getting the government started to go back to the most important goal we want from you. through this invention that both political parties have regrouped themselves for these elections into two major alliances the super left alliance of my was former fighters and the communist party unified marxist leninist is competing against the so-called democratic alliance of nepali congress together with former royalist and other small parties new political parties have gai

earthquake two and a half years ago still living in temporary housing so being a has more now from kathmandu. kosovan at seven a.m. local time and voting has been going on in in fifteen thousand polling sites centers across the country. long queues and people are quite excited about this election we talked to some old people earlier who are saying that it is a very important election because they've waited for such a long time for this country to be a federal republic and there is a level of cynicism as well especially with the young people that we've talked to largely because they're concerned that the same old faces will be elected again there is a three percent threshold for new political parties and one person at least one person from this from new political parties have to be elected in the first passible sister while people are hopeful that this will happen there is also a bit of concern that it might not happen these polls happen in two different phases the first one happened in the mountains where the climate was challenging geography was challenging and this and this station around