Ankur Desai

A seismic result, one that Balin celebrated by standing on top of a car, holding his party flag, surrounded by crowds of supporters. For decades Nepal has been run by the same familiar faces who've exchanged power in successive, fragile coalition governments.

If officially selected by his party, 35-year-old Balin would become the youngest ever prime minister, leading a party, the Rastriya Swatantra party, which is only four years old. A government made up of elder statesmen would be replaced by a leader known for his trademark black suits and sunglasses and anti-establishment rap songs. It's given hope to young Nepalis who want a break from the past.

Minun suunnitelmani on, että meidän pitäisi olla koulutusjärjestelmä, joka ei ole väärä. Hyvää huolta, joka ei ole tehty väärin. Me protestoimme korruptiivisuudesta ja emme voi saada työtä täällä. Ja ympäristö on myös tullut tärkein ongelma meidän maassa. Balan antoi, että hän voisi tehdä toivoja, joilla näin tapahtuu. Hän olisi positiivinen, että hän olisi äänen Gen Z-votereiden ja vaihtoehtojen äänen. Tämän takia suurin osa votoja uskoi hänelle.

I've just arrived here at the RSP headquarters in Kathmandu. Right in front of me in fact is a bell, a literal bell, that is the symbol of the RSP party. This isn't going to be a big, loud victory for the RSP. There will be no parades, there will be no big celebrations, and that's in remembrance of the RSP.

of the 77 people who lost their lives, who died during the Gen Z protests in September, many of them young protesters shot by police. So even though this is a big day for Nepal and a big day for the RSP party, it is going to be a quiet victory. Balin chose to run in the same constituency as the ousted 74-year-old former prime minister, KP Sharma Olli. He said taking the fight directly to Olli was his way of getting justice for the young protesters who died.

Tämä lainsäädäntö tarkoittaa suurin piirtein jensi-proteesteja, jotka järjestivät hallituksen kesäkuussa. Rakesh on yksi niistä, ja hän piti erittäin suurin piirtein. Hän kertoi meille, että poliisi tappoi hänet, ja että hän on nyt paralaistunut. Hän ei valinnut tämän valinnan. Hän kertoi meille, että se oli liian kalliivista jättää hospitalin. Mutta jos hän voisi olla valinnassa, hän olisi valinnut Balinin.

For the past 35 years or so, only three parties have been ruling. Now there is a small glimmer of hope that the new generation will lead us towards progress. When we spoke to the former prime minister KP Sharma Olli on the campaign trail, this clearly wasn't the result he was expecting. And how are you feeling, hopeful? Of course. I'm confident that I'll win and my party also will win.

This landslide victory for his opponent will shatter Oli's belief that the protests were not a referendum on his leadership. A senior leader of Oli's party told us they will need to take decisive action following the results. There should be a serious review, not just a general servicing of the UML, but it's through the stage where a major operation, a complete transformation is needed.

Baalin ja RSP on nyt täytynyt tunnella, että he voivat tehdä hyvää heidän suunnitelmiaan ja työskennellä yleisöä, joka edelleen haluaa huolta, vain viisi kuukautta myöhemmin kuin yksi of the deadliest episodes in Nepal's modern history. For now, voters have signalled they're ready for a new, uncharted political era to begin.

As a day, Mashiri reporting. The German carmaker Volkswagen has said it will cut 50,000 jobs in Germany by the end of the decade, as its profits fell by over 40% last year. The motor industry across Europe is struggling, with intense competition coming from Chinese rivals. David Bailey is a professor of business economics at the Birmingham Business School here in the UK.

Professor David Bailey from the Birmingham Business School. They might have seen headlines about class action lawsuits, where large groups of people under the umbrella of a collective claim for damages in court. New figures compiled for the BBC suggest the number of cases is rising, but critics argue that they're starting to damage business as firms worry about potential damages claims. Ed Butler reports.

Disney has agreed to fork over more than... A major UK legal claim has been filed against Johnson & Johnson. Car makers accused of misleading motorists over emissions... Big companies everywhere seem to be grappling with all kinds of complaints. Class or mass action court battles typically happen when a group of people get together to raise a common grievance. One person's name is put forward, the court rules over the merits of the case and the ruling is applied to all the rest.

Or a group of people could step forward with similar complaints and be treated by the courts as a single claim. Kenny Henderson is a partner at the law firm CMS, which has compiled figures for us at the BBC, suggesting that in the UK alone more than 700 million consumers and businesses were involved in class action cases last year. There is definitely a trend globally towards a more litigious culture and increase in class actions.

The UK is not alone. In Europe between 2018 and 2023 more than $164 billion of damages were being pursued. So how did we get so litigious? Here's Brian Fitzpatrick, a professor at Vanderbilt Law School in Nashville.

What happens in 1966 is the people who write the rules that govern the courts in the United States decided to tweak the class action and allow people to sue for money as well. And that's really what opens up the floodgates.

And another shift in the law was also to come out of the United States. Claimants were able to opt in or opt out of some cases, which others were leading. Kenny Henderson from the law firm CMS explains. Opt out class action devices are really what we associate with US class actions. And that is where a claim is issued by a class representative and the class is aggregated automatically. So if you fall within the class definition, you are in the litigation unless you choose to leave it.

Not everyone is happy about this growing trend, which is now big business. But is it also simply becoming a legal racket? We see cases which are brought purely as an exercise in making money for the lawyers and funders who back them. That's Seema Kennedy. She's the executive director of Fair Civil Justice, a UK-based group campaigning to improve the current litigation system for businesses and consumers alike.

Paljon ulkopuolisia yrityksiä on sitten syytetty. Tämä on todella tehtävää heidät ajatella kaksi kertaa innovaatioista uusista tuotteista ja kasvavuudesta.

So how do defence lawyers themselves respond to the argument? Steve Berman is something of a legend in this field with past victories involving settlements running to tens of billions of dollars. There are a lot of class actions involving tens of millions or hundreds of millions of people. There is a claim that this is beginning to paralyse investment, it's beginning to paralyse industry.

But others say this relentless pursuit of lawfare risks incentivising conflict and paralysing enterprise that should help everyone. Ed Butler reporting.