00:00Among the houses and government buildings set ablaze in Kathmandu,
00:03there's the home of the Prime Minister, the President,
00:07the leader of Nepal's largest party, as well as Parliament.
00:10It too was set ablaze.
00:12With anger continuing to rage unabated in Nepal's streets against the government,
00:17the four-term Prime Minister Sharma Ali stepped down.
00:20The 73-year-old was just the latest Nepalese politician to do so,
00:24hoping, he said, to quell the anger in the streets.
00:27But such resignations, an indefinite curfew and the reversal of a social media ban,
00:33the very one that sparked the protests on Monday,
00:36they've done little to stomp out the anger of tens of thousands of protesters.
00:40They say government corruption, youth unemployment,
00:43and now the multiple fatalities among the protesters have fueled their rage.
00:49I'm here to protest about the corruption.
00:52The country has gotten so bad for us youths.
00:54There's no reason to stay in Nepal.
00:57We were here to participate in a peaceful rally to seek improvement in the country,
01:01but the police and administration decided to get violent
01:04and shoot first with tear gas and then with bullets.
01:07It is very good for our country.
01:09Now I think, like us, youth will stand and develop the country.
01:16The spark of the protest was the government's order for social media networks
01:20to register officially in Nepal.
01:23Those that failed to do so were blocked.
01:25The authorities said the move was designed to tackle fake news, hate speech and fraud.
01:30But protesters viewed the plan as a way to censor dissent.
01:34After tens of thousands took to the streets and clashed with the police over the restrictions,
01:38they were scrapped.
01:39But anger remains palpable.
01:42The United Nations has called for an immediate investigation into the police crackdown against protesters,
01:48amidst reports of live fire being used against them.
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