making an assessment about the amount of damage and the number of casualties that have happened because of after the earthquake. there is a cabinet meeting that is going to meet soon. and it is going to decide whether the government is going to ask for international aid to cope with this disaster. and the death toll is expected to go much higher. because the information still has not come. and there have been two people who have died at everest base camp as well. pass that is the being mountaineering season and the government is still collecting information. >> manesh shrestha joining us by phone, please stay with us because i want you to speak about some of these images that we're seeing on social media. and we're seeing on television images of buildings that have