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chief is arrested on suspicion of treason, and the government says it has now regained control following protests across the country. also coming up on the show world wide crow virus infection. since the start of the pandemic hit the 300000000 mark. we look at where things could go from here. and camera room gets ready to host the africa cup of nations, continent premier international football competition. ah hello m claire richards and welcome to the show house exxon's. a former national intelligence chief has been arrested for suspected treason after days of unrest. this week, dozens of people were killed and thousands of others arrested. president cassim drama took i of is blaming for and back to terrorists for the worst violence seen

in decades. the authoritarian regime has been attempting to restore order with the help of a russian lead force. a heavy security presence on the streets after nearly a week of rioting. an uneasy com has now returned with the authorities seek to re establish control. russian troops are still pouring into casks done under the umbrella of a peacekeeping mission, organized by former soviet republics. president took, i have ordered his security forces to shoot riots as dead. but as the violence gradually subsides services including the internet back up and running because we're born a doorstop. when i warn that 3 access to the internet does not mean his pre publication of fabrication defamation, insults, and incitement. if such material appears yellow, we will track down and punish those responsible renew in

a co signer. after the international community has called for restraint from both sides, people demonstrating should do so peacefully or the killing of police officers and others is unacceptable. the killing of demonstrators is as well, um, there is a need in any situation or for clear, clear need to respect human rights and international standards. while re establishing public or order. the writing was sparked by runaway inflation sky high fuel prices and deep seated discontent with decades of authoritarian rule. yet the way the people have awoken, thus, we want the authorities to listen to what we are saying. because all this has been going on for too long within the food russian troops have helped restore order for

the time being. but the underlying causes of the unrest have still to be addressed . and i'm now joined by i go to him till you hon. nova an independent journalist from kazakhstan and she joins me now from a frog a very warm welcome to the show. we've now seen thousands of protesters arrested and thousands of mainly russian troops sent into kazakstan under the collective security treaty organization. at this point, our president took hi of and his government back in control from what i hear, you know, monthly there is still occasional shooting on the street and people are ordered to stay at home to be safe. and there are still curfew, which have moved from, i think, 11 pm to 8 pm. and so i would say that overall the situation is leaning more towards the lighting, but it's still very dangerous to be out. ok,

so moving towards a stabilizing, we have seen now arrests and dismissals at the top of cause exxon's security architecture, including the former security chief karima massey. more are we looking at an internal elite power struggle here? to be honest, it's a mix of everything. it's mixed with people genuine desire for change and political reforms. it is next with some internal political game in the higher echelons so far . and then there's your politics involved in other things. so right now it's really confusing and it's hard to say what exactly is going on and why, and why some people do certain things. so i would say that is connected mostly with some power struggles at the top, as well as people desire for change. now russia presumably doesn't want to see

ongoing pro democracy demonstrations in the streets and you have the sense that the authorities will be able to maintain order in the long term. or are we likely to see protestors return to the streets in the coming days and weeks? i think right now a storage is, are trying to to just stay below the situation with shootings and violence. but i'm sure that people will continue to protest if their demands are not met and not to leverage as it was. the problem is many years ago, and there are many people outside of cut down as well, protesting in front of embassies and in trunk of different government buildings related to cars, extent. and so far, i don't know if authorities will change the line and i don't think there will because if we've heard the previous address to the nation of to kind of he

was kind of threatening the further cracked down on the civil society and independent media and we know that some activity, some people activity were to change and arrested and are now in jail. and there was also speculation that the influential former president, nurses time, another buyer had fled to the country. what do we know about his whereabouts and the role that he is playing in this there were rumors that lead the country about today. we had official information from his press that good there is that he's actually in the capital and he is in direct contact with customs remark took and that he asked to unite behind him to fight this forces. so we don't know what is true, right? because it's really confusing and it confusion every day, some new official information. but some experts in the small central asian full of

experts think that another bias power to become less than 2 kind of power now. and that's how the power struggle is at least publicly. and yeah, i don't know if it's true or not, but clearly something is going on on the tool. and unfortunately, some civilians are dying and we have known and heard some casualties on the street were innocent, people have guide when they were just trying to get some food products. amid these killed roy, city of alma, for example, i dream. i tell you, hanover, thank you so much for joining us on the show with that important update. now the global number of confirmed covert 19 cases has topped 300000000, and the true number is likely to be much higher. so many cases have gone untested, and the reporting of confirmed cases varies between countries and global cases have

continued to rise at an increasing rate over the course of the pandemic. the 1st 100000000 cases were registered after a year, more infectious delta variance than raise the number of infections to 200000000 in just about 6 months. and the last 100000000 were reached in just 5 months. i'd like to bring in catherine at smallwood emergency officer at the world health organization. thank you so much for joining us. the highly contagious omicron variant is surging worldwide. there would appear to be producing less severe disease. do you expect that oma chronic could be the beginning of the end of the pandemic? i don't think we're quite ready to say that yet. we need to better understand the impact on the con is going to have, as it spreads into countries that don't have really high population and unity either through previous infection waves or through the really great vaccination

campaigns that have been happening around the world that need to continue and, and are really leading to high rates of vaccination in western europe, for example, where we're seeing on the chrome spread most rapidly. so we are seeing pressure on hospitals for the moment. the intensive care units tend to be relatively stable. we haven't yet seen the impact in europe in terms of death, but if you look at other regions like africa, you have seen the arise and deaths as well. so the sheer scale of transmission is going to have a very big impact. even if there is a marginal decrease in the infection severity versus delta, and we'll talk about reaching population and unity worldwide because the world has missed the w h o target of getting 40 percent of population vaccinated by the end of 2021. why is that? well, it's a number of reasons. and of course, we've had

a lot of attention to the inequity in terms of the distribution of the vaccines and the availability to poor countries, where richer countries fundamentally have bought up a large proportion of the world's supply. but it's not just that it's also difficulties in terms of the bottlenecks in place, in countries to get those vaccination out into the communities, into the people that need them. and there's a lot of work still to be done and sometimes that's quite slow work. of course, hesitancy and concerns around the vaccine have played a role. but really that's not the major bottleneck at the moment. the real issue is getting the vaccines to countries where they need it and then getting it from the countries stockpiles really into the populations that need them by reaching out to those populations. the w h. i was one of the entities that set up the vaccine sharing scheme, kovacs. i talked about the obstacles, the scheme is currently facing well, fundamentally,

countries have decided to go bilaterally and, and buy out the vaccination. we are seeing kofax being used quite effectively, particularly 3 through donations, but the endorsement and the, the coordination that came would come from a global agreement to invest in kofax as a mechanism has not been where it needs to be. right, thank you very much. catherine smallwood, emergency officer at the world health organization. we appreciate you taking the time. thank you very much. so foul news, tao and cameroon, host the 33rd edition of the africa cup of nations starting on sunday. and the years 1st, major football tournament has strict protocols. all spectators must be fully vaccinated and show a negative p c r test. the host nation is expected to have the biggest fan base, which will surely give koreans moral burst. ammonia and they're already dancing in

the streets. the spirit of football is in air. and everywhere you look, the horse nations flag is sure to be seen. and local friends, hope the indomitable lands come when they are 6th aft con. title on home, soil philadelphia i am very proud of the work my country is put into hosting the tourney. me lemme after a very long time, let me let go. look. i'm only purely lonely that wasn't good. my hope is that everything goes well, no. me a guy made the best team when and that we have a beautiful celebration here, commodity. but the last time the host had a tournament back in 1972, the phil to win. however, striker eric maxim triple martine hopes they can make fans happy. of course it's an honor to play, to play a mission, scrub at home and it's a, it's a special thing of household, the whole nation. by them. you want to throw as far as possible. it's clear we have women were good team or

a big national football in africa and them special listen. the most successful country in the history of the tournament is egypt with 7 titles, followed by cameron's 5 and defendant champions old jr. i have won it twice. led by manchester, cities re admirers. the foxes i've got lost the game since november 2018 and recently warned air up quote, while extend india on beaten street. the 24 teams are been drawn into 6 groups. the top 2 teams from each group along with the 4 best turd plays, teams are guaranteed a spot in the last 16 can ruin. we'll hope that the next 4 weeks or football go without a hitch, as it puts on the show for the walled to remember. and in the blindness later by a lever, cuz andrew with union berlin to keep their noses in front of the visitors in the race for champions li,

qualification. the score one to one and krisha promo house from close range early in the 2nd half to put one unit, $21.00 up that unit until late header secured a to, to draw for labor cuz in the result means they still drop down to 5th place. so let's take a look at the wound as like a result so far on matched 18 as we saw labor cruise and drew it with union berlin, leipzig dominated mines. fryeburg shared the spoils with a deal of felt as if you're at with stuttgart of an heim beat out board on friday. glad back, stunned by iron. frankfurt are now battling document and on sunday, her to host cologne and bonham. take on vol. spark his update at this hour. thanks so much for joining us. ah, imagine how many portion of lunch us heard out in the world.