they were trying to mediate between the leaders of the nepal communist party for the nepal communist ot work out. now a senior communist party official has come here with a four member delegation and both the foreign ministry and chinese embassy are not giving any details about the detail of the delegation but it is expected they will meet, the two leaders of the nepal communits party, and on one side you have the prime minister and on the other side, you have another political leader challenging mr oli. another chinese are trying to find whether they can prevent a split in the communist party and this is also worried these other neighbour india because now they are seeing china playing an active role in what was once described as an indian sphere of influence and you see the two big players playing the game in nepal and that is worried many people because the more and more china is getting involved in nepal's political affairs, the world attention is turning towards nepal. thank you forjoining us. africa's first case of covid—19 was detected in mid—february. more than ten months on,

sharma oli has been in power since his nepal communist party won he led an alliance with former maoist rebels. the power sharing agreement has become an obstacle. the political upheaval comes as the country battles the coronavirus, and as it has middle of geopolitical battleshe between traditional partner india, and china. for more national and international news visit pbs.org/newshour. re >>ivasan: one month from today, president-elect joe biden wil be sworn in as the couns trth president. and while every new president faces challengeshen they enter the office, his inauguration comemis at a time of sly unprecedented challenges. for a look at hec president- biden's hurdles compare with his predecessors, we turn greenfield for an assessment. >> when it comes to a tough beginning, abraham lincoln wins the gold medal. by the time he came into office-- after sneaking io washington to avoid an assassination plot-- seven southern states had alrdy seceded. within a month, fort sumter had fallen and the civil war s on n earnest, a war that haunted lincoln throughout his presidency. just five d

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washington thousands in nepal's capital are protesting against the prime minister after he dissolved parliament called for early elections. fell out with members of his ruling communist party a coalition between himself and former maoist rebels all the says internal party politics have made his job impossible among the protesters or the former prime ministers who will say all these decision was unconstitutional. hundreds of refugees have been arriving on the island. off bangladesh this fight safety and security concerns raised by human rights groups around 8500 people are being moved from the overcrowded camps in cox's bazaar tanveer chowdhry reports from the port city of chittagong. around 800 running a refugee is boarded navy vessel in the post city of chittagong in southern bangladesh they have been sent to passion charter island where 1600 of their fellow refugees were relocated earlier this month. and his wife who have a young child don't know what to expect so i will say. most are saying things are fine as a day we are going because government told us the facilities are good over there and so we are following their advice no one really pressured us to go there him an