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world. so no matter where you call home al jazeera will bring you the news and current affairs that mattie al jazeera with hi anthony. okay, and you're watching the stream today. we had to kazakhstan where a fuel hike at the beginning of the year, turned into demonstrations that escalated into widespread unrest. what brought so many people out on the street? that's part of our program today. earlier we spoke to jonas, cause i jim who covered the protest in our mattie. and this is what she told us, trying to people that i've spoken to, at least in almighty. they all told me that they have seen horrible scenes of gluten robbery,

and violence strung their balconies on the streets. and for sure it was the 1st time's a weakness. and many who are sitting at home told, told me that at night there was no presence of police or anyone to make them feel secure and safe. this protests have been remarkable in terms roof showing their anger and frustration of regular cousin, people who use their current. so sure, economic and political situation during our conversation today through gas or from kazakhstan, bata asked, sell, and ambassador i, she could buy it. so good to have me here with us. i'm going to get you to introduce yourself to our global audience. but a ye start, tell them who you are and what you do. my name is bertha jim ali. i'm a lawyer and the human register under the political out to east. i'm originally from kazakstan, but now i live in belgium, brussels, where i received political us. i will get to have you on board. i sell. welcome to

the stream. please introduce yourself to have us. thank you so much. my name is a selda low, and i am an assistant professor in international relations and political science at nearest university in northern cyprus. and i write about as exam i am from cuz it's done. and particularly my research focus is on paradoxes of other it's aaron power . the rules are rules versus governance and the description of the new type of system. so there is an energy that have evolved from after the 1990 s a basta welcome to the stream. good to have you on board as well. please introduce yourself to our international audience. oh, my pleasure. thank you so much for having me. i am your shanisha, martha muscles, kazakhstan, delighted stays. if you are watching this program on you cheaply can comment on it, you can ask, i does question. it is popular comments into the comment section. i do my best to

involve you in the show as well. i guess i want to start with refute. this takes us back to january. the 5th. he was protesting. this is what he had to sam. interested in your reaction. let's take a look. pulled her up dear journalists and bloggers. lots of versions of what happened here. have been told you must understand what has happened here. the coiled spring has now been unleashed after 30 years. look, all of us have been fired upon. all of us went through these things, but none of us want to kill or put pressure on another person. please come here and see it with your own eyes. we show you the face of a new country and you should witness sets. we cassock, people have patience. stop it. we're sick about it. look so deserve advancing here . let them see it all. stay with us and let's see where it goes. what you mentioned, i'm in order to look that up in the work of. so what was the sentiment? was there lots of versions of what happened here? i want to hear version from interview very briefly in the shape of i'm just gonna

say give, i'll give you a headline, butter voter. what was your get may a started because you showed a protester, promo, marty in the sexually ones. if you for january, by the actually the protest started on the 2nd of january and it started from a small town in monkey style region of garza down. and so oil producing down old, you know, is it, and then it's, the protest started spreading all over the country. and this is very important to us to say that the protest were very peaceful, very peaceful and very quickly, economic demands turns into political demands. and people, industries, people which were trying to reach the main squares in there, we were just in every are in their seat is a man squares in front of the seats, you holes and are to say demands. they basically were they, they wanted to have for gym change, and then on the 4th of january,

it's really a big crowd of buys a few from junior we had protest. oh, that spread over 260 or 60 citizen. they were just around cause us on. if you look at the map of kaiser for you, a lot, one was a country, we show our audience what you're talking about here. that was of course, just one process approaches. and i, i wanted to get your idea of what happened. so this is, has it some protest across the country and you can see where those orange spots are . all of the protest, not just in one place, but in many places. i also headline both, i'll come back to you as so can you give us a headline for your understanding of what happened? so basically i think the glass with protests that were happening were kind of stolen by some kind of violent bond bandits. and unfortunately, the government story that tells us that these were put into the terrorists is not really making sense,

particularly because in the story in order to prove the point trained terrorists that basically the government said that they, they show the face of that participant who was a famous jazz musician in this get a who under torture, had to confess that he actually did it in order to escape basically for free and have freedom. on the other hand, you have also the, the, in this, in the government story of the idea that well we can find is 20000 terrorists that actually started to shoot at the school. civilians are and protesters. and in response to that, the government basically said that, well, it's because of the terrorists attack the more and took the troops. so that's why we cannot find them. so they're there, this ridiculous explanations that actually academic community and anybody actually

watching because it's done with big questions in mind. i mean what, what exactly who exactly? what does bandits and how come they were organized? and because as a result of that, the diesel protests were actually stolen, i mean, really out of the, the whole that grassroots solidarity now is silenced with 10000 and the rest of people who without the names because we just know the number in the still don't know the name, so let's if we can get some i can read, i would like to very high for my because i have to share this conversation with we get to come back to you. i'm, i'm back. can you give us some clarity about the initial price hike, the fuel hike, that spot, the initial demonstrations, and then how they escalate it. and then how you something issue. of course, some kind of sun is definitely part so far and global economy. and what we've seen in our guys, gas prices in europe, definitely affected tasks done. so ah,

the spike in the prices of out the g ah, provoke so sir treatment those public responses. and sir, let me point out from the very beginning that the government has no issue whatsoever was peaceful protest us. in fact, the initial protests were a peaceful and duane forestman took no action against them. it was not until certain groups turned violent and serve as a sale, told her so all those saw crossville. oh, protests. ah, the government, sir, and let me point out this so precisely. the government jumped in and engaged. we are, are well aware of the concept of listening, stayed by president archive, and sir, the government reacted to those legitimate i, i, on the line, legitimate protests or, or the population 1st and western parts of classics done. tapping the price of lpg,

cutting the price of futility. costs are of socially important goods of jazlyn. and sir, ah, all those sir, ah, actions by the government were implemented. so almost the next day ah, was protest started on january the 2nd and then on the 4th there was a decision by the government or i just mentioned and law enforcement agencies. and this also should be underlined, where instructed and were acting with utmost restraint. so regretfully, due to the stigmatized views and stereotypes, media coverage is not accurately reflecting the facts on the rounds and left me. i see says sir, this is an article and from new york times, not to play. i knew that when we, we can google it, don't worry about it, jack,

january 7th, yet a dish of h a 8 her bottom of the page and it says a television image of kazakhstan, security of catholic security forces, beating demonstrators in our marty on wednesday. and so i quit why the quote in the new york times on al jazeera are just very symbolic, very simple. the new york times is known as a world class, responsible journalism i. i am not going to engage with the new york times article, but i am going to engage with what we're talking about right now. as a matter if you, if you use mix, in example from out of the, i'll be very happy, but i'm not going to engage with the new york times. i will come back to you is that spring. let's bring us up the day i hear what you're saying. you. you been clarity from the government's perspective. what do these protesting escalation of the protests starting with the fuel hydro and asking for so much more? tell us about cassock storm. now. not generally the thing but now both east on

yeah, this is those quite a bit about causes done because because of sound was like a cooking pressure, right. this is people started with guy. gus, i only because it was the last straw. so basically people fed out whizzes existing for 30 years clipped. chuck tried to get for retarded, and resume was really or an absence of political freedoms was a total monopoly, or as often as or by. and he's famous, like kind of the ruling elite all over both alisha go system n z a economy in even when we discuss the gas prices. and then busted or refers to the kind of international demand and supply. but this is the issue in guys us, i got some is a guy as an oil producing country. but the monopoly over as a whole section is in the hands, off of those are by

a son in law. so go pre in softball and got to move really by, and they controls the prices and guys us on when they say that this is market control, no, actually they sell our natural resources in the market price internationally. but at the same time, the ackerson casa stock, they receive salaries extremely low. all right, that's it, that's a good point for me to jump off on our audience. i'm watching on youtube. i invited them to ask questions. this is, tom shot, a master. i'm gonna ask you to respond to this very briefly comes at his watching us right now because it's on the level of poverty over 60 percent, with the income, maybe around $70.00 to $90.00 for the whole family. the protest is not just about the price of gas, the protest is about poverty and against. then that's why jeff family, as a, by death was the long term president, the 1st president of kazakhstan, from 1990 to 20. 19 that, that some tenure, please go ahead and best be,

let's be correct. statistically, we are, we can refer to any so speed, well, pan, or united nations, sir? ah, the level of how much in kazakhstan is relatively high, but no one would ever say about 60 percent. ah, the income of the family, so talking about $7800.00 isn't nonsense for the entire family. as of this year, the minimum wage is raised to 60010 years, which is $150.00, at least, and sir, ah, consequently all b r pensions everything is raised her. and so of course there are issues. of course, we need to address certain social are concerns of the population and this is exactly what president intends to do when i with what did mentally ask. ask

everyone to take attention to ah, take attention to her. he is state of the nation, almost state of the nation address, yesterday's address in the parliament when or where he put forth a number of initiatives designed to support the long term will be of the people of cost extra years. and can i just have agreed to robert, i'm sorry, like if we look at that official statistics then? absolutely. this is so, but i think the world banker calculates there. if you li, calculate the level of poverty basically, and they mean the salary, the, the, the, the nature of, of the salary based on the mean. and then you can see that these 2 are very similar to the level of poverty. and in addition to that, i think even a present the guy has actually overly said that we have been calculating the amount of poor people by calling them different names like some as i and they're like self employed or partially employed. i and i think this needs to be really revealed

because i don't think this is something i mean it's a problem that needs to be yes rather than he then i, you know, as with all due respect are we can not operate with figures like 60 percent amity, in catholic sta, ah, less be honest with the audience, with our sales statistically context on has certain problems with wells distribution where i'm not ignoring them. and as a government, there is a firm commitment on the part of person talk hiv and administration. now, to a even more attention to social protection of the population. please, sir, as a scientist, as a social scientist please, to pay attention to those words. and be careful with the statistic i was telling that 60 percent, or whatever 60 percent poverty in kazakhstan is nonsense. i also wanted to show our order may not be deep into the knowledge of what has son has in terms of wealth.

it has a lot of wealth. it has oil wealth, natural resources. i'm. so there's a discrepancy between the wealth that has exxon has and then maybe the lifestyle of people who are living in catholics on that there's definitely a gap there. i say, let me bring in another voice. this is dr. i shan shushing nova a researcher at the o. s. c e academy already. now we're looking at the aftermath of these demonstrations these protests. and this is what she tells us about her analysis going forward for catechism the midst of fable cars are found is old for we have seen the answer for tons of biased era. we have potentially seen the birth of a new or to cross in the region seem to me up to cost, cause i will never be seen again. however, a lot for the found on the so we to so the cars are some, has enough wisdom to talk to the people of color sun and to address the public

grievances. or it will follow the same or destructive path of shrinking the space for any descent. and creating further when he calls he between the reach and the core in this or which country. so both in 2019 the new president of catholic some went on a listening to listening to the people of context on have you seen the benefits of that listening tool? no. listen in space is a listen. state is another, you know, window dressing concept that regime created after mass protests that took place in a june of 2019 after the store, the presidential elections in which are the current president and a kind of became the president. and he's basically and then the new or existing dictator. so town was or via and i have to kind of out a clarify that neutral done was about also he resigned from his position as

a prison. he still, on my intensive control was a country and his position is the leader of the nation. and this is a constitutionally a given position for him. and just one quick thing i'm talking about, i think it was wonderful listening to their status. you show like a diploma talking about statistics and guys i stand, but i think that what you've seen on the history of cause i saw this is actually was a response to a tech i've ah, this in state concept. be all the promises of the reforms that we've been listening for 30 years by just empty, empty promises. and i it see it's a, is just what would i believe that is a right now it's the government to starting on the wrong foot in it was people because they would they do it instead of really addressing the issue they now started wiring about in a region of the protest nature of the protest out. this is why we really have to

return to the issue of this international interference of internationally trained terrorists that are, were a blade for, ah, for the shooting on the street was a wooton suit. they were a free types of protest or on the streets of market a really, jay and young peaceful protesters does. people is that i personally know really is have you seen the last seen is 3 and then we had looters and they were organized by the state. they were sent specifically to describe the process and suggest defies the use of fire arms against the protesters in there. so tables are people, it's, yeah, of course we had some kind of marginal price, so he about to this is where we started. so i'm going to route, i'm going to move, push us on a little bit further because those protests were a few weeks ago. and now i'm looking at the aftermath i would have been impressed, didn't talk. i have to talk about how he views what happened and that tut torres,

a. she really helps us understand what is going to happen. it has a son. next, let's take a listen. let's take a look. so low. she real big la la, the main aim of those who joined the protests has become obvious, undermining the constitutional order, destroying the governance institutions and the seizure of power. we're talking about a coup attempt. it's obvious now that all these actions were coordinated from the same center, a well prepared operation that reached a crucial phase simile tain, use attacks on buildings of regional authorities, long foresman bodies detention facilities, strategic sites, banks, a t, v tower and t. v stations have demonstrated that early oper to use your be upper muscle, the involvement or rasa in quelling the demonstrations means that we're not talking about current protests, but as you go forward in kazakhstan and you're looking at maybe reforms,

how do you satisfy your citizens? what is only agenda today, but thank you for this question, but 1st and foremost lifts b are very precise in our our statements. it's not russians, it's c s t o r r, peacekeepers, peacekeeping, food stamps were dispatched on the grounds and the curtain through to organizations where with a leader me is a regional body. thank thanking for it. they have additional a, which we are not talking all about russian peacekeepers or troops on the ground, but also about armenian bill, russian and congress and tantric, if i'm not mistaken. so ah, the agenda, our 4th is definitely identified by president. archive is a new as extern. we are very much intended to address all the concerns of the go off the ordinary people are, we are going to address discrepancies in economic system. president openly said

about dissatisfaction was oligopoly, sir, with monopolistic, or stances in different areas. and he also did declared that, sir, it's time for there are much more fear and just wealth redistribution. so people, sir, well, b is sir, ah, equally marked. so the economic growth should translate into actual, ah, benefits for ordinary citizens. that's the main idea of his program. when we go to christina, silver and susan such felon, she's talking about the take away from what happened just recently his when it comes to the intervention of the rush, lead collective security treaty organization. it has a huge impact on how russia is perceived, both in the region and globally, russia with a new leveraging cossacks,

them where its influence has been roading and the last couple of years. and that leverage could accelerate integration with in russia. lead organizations like the, your asian economic union. so in a way, i see more school as one of the potential we nurse of this conflict. even if, especially if this is your mission, would not result in anything asked lasting and concrete as a permanent military base for example. so i guess i'm going to go to you to one more time because it's a really good, really good question here. and this is what she right now says, what outcome do you believe is the most likely result? we at the very last minute of the show. so i'm going to do this in a single sentence. i fell, you start out. they are coping the genuine reforms by creating various cell welfare packages and therefore buying

out the loyalty of the majority of people. i'm out of the political reforms. this is not sustainable and not sustainable. i rotate your sentences, want yes, human rights defender, i have to say that right now would we be seeing cars or stands our math to mass? is it massive, massive, christie, q, sion or i civil society activities or are peaceful protesters? i promise not to prosecute them. thank you both to an ambassador, you have the last sentence in the shall, thanking. thank you so much for having all of us. so what catholics done has demonstrated resilience. it's, we stand this stress test and there will be a new cadillacs done much for open to the world and very much committed to its all its international obligations, including the one to lambaste. ok. thank you. our cell and frankly, boater as well as with the protest, the set up in the beginning of the show. lots of versions of what happened in kaz

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