the accident sent shockwaves through nepal. the many tragedies that occur on mount everest are witnessed first-hand by the communities in the valley of kathmandu. a lot of sherpa families live here, including ang pasi with her son. her husband was a sherpa who led foreigners up to the summit. the avalanche on april 18 claimed his life. his widow and son found refuge in a small room at her brother's house. >> the death of my husband changed my whole life. i just need to see how my baby and i can get through it. my best option is to emigrate. >> the young widow received the equivalent of nine thousand euros in compensation -- almost two years' wages -- from the nepalese government. mount everest -- a blessing and a curse. more than 9000 sherpas and their families make their living as porters and guides. since the summit was first reached in 1953, they have been helping mountain climbers find their way, as well as carrying equipment, food, and oxygen cylinders. they are well paid for this job. but they are poorly insured. >> in ka

recent accidents and natural disasters have dented nepal being a safe destination in october, 2014, a snowstorm killed at least 43 people in central nepal, following the avalanche in april, the guide refused to climb and there was an unprecedented shutdown of mount everest in 2014. yet covert snowstorm raised questions on the paul's ability to react to disasters. many lives could have been saved if there had been proper procedures. now, the government has introduced a raft of new measures. this year, foreigners will have to pay $11,000 each, down from 25,000 to climb out everest dozens of other mountains are also slashing their rates. however, some mountaineers have voiced concerns that everest is already overcrowded. nepal has picture postcard natural beauty that it is struggling to find the safest way to make money from its natural riches. >> one man who climbed everest along with 13 more of the world's tallest mountains is a british mountaineer. i asked him what he taught of nepal's decision. >> they do want more tourist it has been lowered on the other side, in china. i guess, for

. >> the 28% tuition increase proposed is a mushrooming political war, on one side janet nepal 'tanother -- nepal 'tano and the other jerry brown. >> people need money and how much money they need is a matter of dispute. brown's proposal offered a 4% increase, but uc has no intense of doing. that regents voted to praise it to 13,000 next fall and to over 15 grand by 2019. $100million more is needed. >> this is where we are now, this is the budget we believe we need and we'll need moving forward. >> nepal 'tano and bound are set the meet. >> he's met his match, those are powerful am been and hardheaded informations. >> our political adviser predicts a compromise. >> they will meet in the middle. she from 5% to maybe 2 1/2 and he from zero to 2 1/2. >> it's the students caught in the middle. >> students have to pay, it's a power struggle. >> it's all going to come down to what else can be cut. brown mentioned fewer employee perks and more classes on line. they will hash it out later this month. >>> governor brown's latest budget includes $8 billion for k through 12 schools and comment

said that the cholera found in that river is almost identical to a strain of the disease found in nepal before those soldiers were deployed. even bill clinton - the un special envoy to haiti - has said that un peacekeepers from that base are the likely source of the disease in haiti. but the one thing that hasn't happened is that the un hasn't accepted any kind of liability for bringing the epidemic to this country. in fact, at this point, they still won't even talk about it. it's been more than two years since cholera appeared in haiti and we're driving into one of the most isolated areas of the country. communities up here in the mountains surrounding artibonite river are almost completely cut off from basic services. clinics, running water, even roads here are almost non-existent. up here, catching any kind of disease is a serious matter, one that kills as quickly as cholera can be a death sentence. >> it is impossible, really, to imagine how somebody could get along paths like this to medical facilities within a few hours to save lives from cholera. this is the kind of scenario here

>> woodruff: nepal is famous for its male mountaineers.en say they hope to change that image with this climbing record. and, legendary gospel singer and songwriter andrae crouch has died in los angeles. over more than 50 years, his songs were recorded by elvis presley and paul simon, among others. he also arranged music for michael jackson and for the movies, "the lion king" and "the color purple." along the way, andrae crouch won seven grammy awards. he was 72 years old. still to come on the newshour: a bloody ending to the massive french manhunt for two terrorists and a separate hostage standoff. the 2014 jobs surge, and what it means for interest rates in 2015. president obama's plan to overhaul community colleges and make the first two years free. mark shields and david brooks on the week's news. and, updating old-school technology to be even more interactive and connected. >> woodruff: the are more questions tonight about the france terror attacks and what they mean for security in the west, and also the radical islam movement. to hel

yuichi tabata nhk world, nepal. >> that wraps up our bulletin. i'm patchari raksawong in bangkok. >>> authorities in beijing are encouraging more residents to try winter sports. they want to host the games in 2022, but to win the bid they need to prove they have support at home. nhk world's kunihiro yamamoto reports. >> reporter: people at the ski resort near beijing celebrate world snow day. the day was established by the international ski federation to promote winter sports. >> translator: we want people to have a deeper appreciation of winter games. we want to improve chinese people's skills in snow sports. >> reporter: with their eye on hosting the olympics chinese authorities are promoting winter sports. there are a few experienced skiers around, but the majority are just getting started. china's growing middle class is catching on gradually. to stage the games beijing plans to use facilities from the 2008 summer olympics. the national indoor stadium which held the fencing event would be turned into an ice hockey arena. curling will be held

check out this brawl in nepal. politicians threw chairs, attacked the speaker of parliament in katmandu during a debate during a new constitution. nobody was seriously hurt. man, some passion right there. >> brawl in nepal, pretty good writing. >>> up next an update on the stories making headlines tonight. >> including a violent attempt to overthrow the government in yemen. >> the temperature is cooling down out there tonight and a yellow alert is on the horizon. topper? >>> if you're just getting home, let's get you up to speed on what's making headlines around the world. they're taking their seats on capitol hill. the state of the union kicks off in a little more than an hour and a half from now. president barack obama osals which he says will benefit middle class americans, but with the gop in control of congress a lot of those ideas won't make it off the ground. >>> overseas tonight an attempt to overthrow the government in yemen. rebels managed to raid the presidential palace. violence has gripped the capital

. >> reporter: uc president janet nepal tawn low reminded the governor the formula for funding the uc has changed. today they receive $460 million less from the state than they did in 2007. this is what nepal tawn low told the uc board of regents hours before. >> we cannot continue to do all of these things without additional revenue. we are already educating thousands more california students than our current level of state funding supports. >> reporter: this back and forth started in november when the regents voted to have the option to increase tuition by 5% every year for five years if the governor didn't add more to the pot. in january, brown said he would give uc what he had previously pledged, $120 million more to uc's budget. that extra money comes from prop 30 approved by voters two years ago to raise taxes to fund education. but napolitano said the university needs an additional $100 million over what brown is offering to maintain the academic quality of the uc system and to enroll more california students. however now both brown and napolitano, the sole members of a select

now nepal's constitution is due to complete on tuesday.the national assembly has been divided over a number of issues. and as we report, the disputes have spread out on the streets of the capitol katmandu. >> january 22nd, the deadline to draft nepal's institution. but there are warnings that the constitution must address the demands. >> as an indigenous communities of this country we've always maintained that this country is ours but the state is not. we want our identity recognized in this new constitution. >> the first time the conflict debate over community identity has divided the assembly drafting the constitution. it ended in 2012 without completing the charter because of the same issue. >> the opposition say that consensus is the only way forward. but the ruling parties want to vote on them. as talks fail tensions are running high. >> this is what happened inside the assembly at midnight on monday. the next day the opposition called a strike. when the opposition leaders went to address the supporters, this is what they encountered.

. >> you've been to nepal which i tell people is my favorite place. what is your favorite?. being in australia on a stormy atmospheric day was one of a kind. it's always sunny there. that was unique. celebrating the holy festival of color in india, that was surreal. i can talk about everything we've seen and that it's memorable. some things i could have e pu. >> how have you ch you've been to s in f >> it brought into. you have a different understandin. i don't claim to k or i things we consider that worry or stress us out in our bubble of a world, you take a look around the world. other people are kind struggling with bigger pro hunger, shelter, safety. things like that. it helps you appreciate what you do have back at home. > absolutely awesome to have a mother that's game for anything. like this lady. she's helping her son record a vocal for a record he's putting together. >> you want me to just do one? >> yeah. >> right now? >> yeah. [ noise ] >> irp >> it's a like p. a hardcore m >> that is correct. ♪ >> she is helping her son record some vocals for his band corrupt le

. >> you've been to nepal which i tell people is my favorite place. what is your favorite?s a hard one. being in australia on a stormy atmospheric day was one of a kind. it's always sunny there. that was unique. celebrating the holy festival of color in india, that was surreal. i can talk about everything we've seen. there is something about it that was memorable. some things i could have easily put in the top ten. >> how have you changed since you've been to so many countries in four years? >> it brought into perspective. you have a different understanding of the world. i don't claim to know anything or it made me that much wiser. things we consider that worry or stress us out, you take a look around the world. other people are kind of struggling with bigger problems. hunger shelter, safety. things like that. it helps you appreciate what you do have back at home. >> ice cold winter. >>> for some the most challenging part of skiing -- >> i agree. >> you see a couple of guys trying to rescue this kid with ladders at first. but you can see the ladders are way too short. then

a couple of staffers came to this police station inside india along the nepal border.learned at least two young women have been trafficked and making final arrangements with the police to conduct a raid to rescue them tonight. the team met up at 6:00 p.m. they hadn't told police where they were going beforehand for fear traffickers would be tipped off. once they shared the information, they were asked to wait because the female officers who were to accompanied them had been delayed. when the women still hadn't arrived two hours later the raid proceeded anyway, hours after the planned start. three women and six policemen. >> this is where the customers are brought in. >> reporter: a few minutes later they were in the local red-light area and in a three-rove hubble where they expected one young woman was being held. it was dank, dark and deserted. what's going on? >> i think the girl has been kept at the police station for two hours. we suspect they send information to the traffickers here because there's not a man in sight, which is very unusual in the red light area. w

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sara worked on refugee issues in egypt, iraq, jordan, nepal and india. she'll do her graduate work at princeton. deetta cravens was a rangel undergraduate scholar and will attend harvard university. >> deetta cravens: my background has a lot to do with why i chose to be in the foreign service. i grew up in oklahoma. my dad is african american. my mom is native american and caucasian. and i couldn't live in a more culturally diverse family. i think that at a very young age made me curious about the world. i went to a very small liberal arts college in oklahoma, and one of my professors sent me an email just with a plain announcement about the rangel program, and i have never been so happy to read an email. the rangel program offers a lot more than entry to the foreign service. that's kind of the -- the icing on the cake. but what you get from the rangel program is a network of mentors who really, really care about you and care about the work that you're going to do and care your success. i've already taken the test and passed. >> all the buzz words about

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this is here in nepal where lawmakers have been. look at this.ition politicians who, as you can see are unhappy with plans to push through a new constitution. even attack the parliamentary speaker. democracy in action. more on our website. >>> now, how far would you go to help a total stranger? she is donating stem cells to someone he does not know. listen to the donor. >> translator: today is a very special day for me. i'm donating by stem cells to a 7-year-old boy in the uk. i work as a driver for the shanghai government. i took part in the donation program without much thought. i was quite surprised when the red cross called to tell me they had found a match. i was even more surprised that match was with a foreigner. >> translator: the process is not painful. it is just a system of tubes that draws blood out of my veins, extracts the stem cells before returning the blood. no one inserted big needles into my spine, which is the sort of thing many people imagine happens. in fact i didn't feel a single thing. only that the whole procedure lasted

. >>> a group of women climbers nepal ease are back at home after becoming the first woman team to climb the highest mountain on all seven continents. the team started the seven-year journey by climbing mt. everest, mount vincent in antarctica last month. only four were able to make the last journey because of a lack of funding. >> a big journey finally culminated in the seventh climb. we can now say seven! >> wow. they received a warm welcome home. they said they would continue to climb even after achieving their goal. >>> two men trying to climb up the sheer rock of el capitan could reach the summit this weekend. >> if they do it will be at night. they switched to night climbing because the days are too warm. at night the rocks are colder allowing a better grip with fingers and climbing shoes. >> free climbing means they are only using their hands and feet, no tools to scale the rocks. the ropes are only there to catch them if they fall. one of them is kevin jorgenson of santa rosen. he is nursing finger injuries. the 14th day of their climb. >> i know my 8-year-old is going to do that

while janet nepal tanno continue a financial feud. students are left to sweat over an uncertain future. >> students are already struggling. the governor and the president should try to work something out so that at the end of the day, student don't have to suffer. >> it doesn't feel good. it doesn't feel good to take out these loans and worry about how i'm going to pay them back. and i know some student that had to drop out already because of fee hikes. and it is shameful really. very shameful. >> now there is still time tore the governor and the university of california to negotiate a final budget is not due until this summer. but if that five-year tuition hike does indeed kick in this fall tuition could go up to nearly $16,000 in 2019. reporting live at uc berkeley i'm jody hernandez, nbc bay area news. >> jody thank you. >>> calling it extremely rare. marine biologists hope to learn more about a whale beached at the national sea shore. hikers came across the sperm whale yesterday near abbot's lagoon. the site was difficult to acces

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it comes from his stake in nepal paints, a joint venture with nippon paint from japan.t operates in 15 countries in asia and goh's stake is worth $15 billion. the stake is worth another $4 billion. >> tell me who also the singapore ritualist -- rich list? >> the largest shareholder of the singapore united bank, worth $6.9 billion. the wind -- behind wei is a window worth $4.9 billion in her sons philip and robert worth 4.6 billion and $4.5 billion respectively. those are the top members. >> tell me something, what do we know about goh because he seems to be very much below the radar. >> you are exactly right. we do not know much about goh, he maintains a low profile. what we know is that goh has not been actively involved in his company for decades. his son has been leading the company since the 80's. we know that goh is a big fan of luxury boats, so he has this yacht will be white rabbit -- called the white rabbit echo worth $30 million. >> coming up after the short break, we hear from the father of snowboarding. >> these are boards made around 1980. there is a photo o

leaders debate a new constitution in nepal. chairs and shoes were thrown.he fighting erupted after maoist lawmakers tried to stop a proposal foo to change the constitution. bill: rebels in yemen seized the presidential palace in the capital city. it's become a breeding ground for terrorists. john bolton, former u.s. am balances doer to the u.n. this is a big deal when you look at the history of yemen. >> yemen has essentially fallen apart as a country. they are more aligned with iran and sunni muslims. they are largely a separate sect. in an anin an anarchy situation this disintegration of the yemeni government and jar and iraq confirms the danger of these as breeding grounds for terrorists. bill: there are several dozen detainees at get know that claim yenl as their home and and are soon to be released from guantanamo bay. >> i don't think the president is serious about security. i think he's determined to close gitmo. i think he's make the country less and less safe by conscious deliberate policy. bill: he wants to close gitmo an wants to do it within two