now kazakhs are wondering what comes after nursultan nazarbayev?azakhstan‘s growth being built on firm foundations? —— are being built? in the kazar language, astana means capital. injust in the kazar language, astana means capital. in just 20 years this city has risen from the empty steppes. these showpiece buildings are monuments to the commodities. now kaza khsta n monuments to the commodities. now kazakhstan is determined to diversify. you get quite a view from the boardroom of astana's new financial centre. the ceo is aiming to create a financial hub in central asia to rival singapore, hong kong, and dubai. what we are doing right now in astana financial centre, is we are trying to build all kinds of alternative vehicles, it is, to attract investment into the economy and we are building the stock market, the capital market from scratch, and we have a chance, a good chance to avoid mistakes others are doing in different areas to build financial hubs. you are sending a signal to potential investors they will get the most enormous tax breaks, i u

in the kazakh language, astana means capital.ars this city has risen from the empty steppes. these showpiece buildings are monuments to the country's commodity riches — oil, gas, and minerals. now kazakhstan is determined to diversify. you get quite a view from the boardroom of astana's new international financial centre. the ceo here is aiming to create a financial hub in central asia to rival singapore, hong kong and dubai. what we are doing right now in astana international financial centre, we are trying to builds all sorts of alternative vehicles, alternative instruments, to attract investment into the economy and we are building the stock market, capital market, from scratch, and we have a chance, a good chance, to avoid mistakes others were doing in other jurisdictions to build financial hubs. you're also doing something else. you're sending a signal to potential investors, they're going to get the most enormous tax breaks, as i understand it, a 50—year exemption from corporate and income taxes, what kind of business peopl

kazakh and russian, perhaps you noticedl languages here. kazakh and russian, perhaps you noticed. kazakh language and pushing the... the alphabet. the script from cyrillic to the latin script, which moscow regards perhaps as a sign that you are moving away. speaking about the russian world, we don't agree because here, we have our own world, which is kazakh and the presence of the russian language, of course, is quite physical and at the same time, we are facilitating and promoting english in kazakhstan. so the more languages our younger generation know, the betterfor kazakhstan. let me end by doing what you and kazakhs do a lot, which is thinking ahead. the president and the government issued a plan on taking the country all the way through to 2050 so let's talk about 2050. in 2050, do you think kaza khsta n 2050. in 2050, do you think kazakhstan will be much more integrated with the chinese economy than the russian economy?l integrated with the chinese economy than the russian economy? i think that in 2050, kazakhstan will be one of the major players, not only in central asia bu

is that healthy and sustainable for the kazakh economy?y for our economy in the very beginning of sovereignty. you need to remember that the old economy was state—owned, so the company you mentioned about was one of the first to come to our market, to privatise, some major enterprises. and we are grateful to them. to make this step because we had no traditions of private economy. now people argue that this company is detrimental to our economy. they bring some problems. the answer to your question is to develop smes here. it is one of the goals of the government formulated by president nazarbayev. we don't have oligarchs. what does oligarch mean? that he is a rich man and he wants to be near the government, the president, in order to exercise influence? that is precisely what you do have. making decisions, instead of the government, or instead of the president. we have no such persons here. really? yes. what about the riches we know have been amassed by people who are very close friends of the president, some of whom are in the family of t

on the kazakh chinese border, an extraordinary new city is taking shape.asinos, theme parks and shopping malls, the vegas of the steppes. nursultan nazarbayev has been the president of kazakhstan for 27 years. he is an autocrat. he wins elections with 97% of the vote. in his shiny new capital, astana, the president has created an international financial centre. here, britishjudges using british common law have been hired to convince foreign investors it is a safe place for their money. what i can say is the absolute robust integrity of ourjudges. they would not stay here if there was not a genuine commitment to strict adherence of the rule of law. but some old soviet habits die hard. last month, paramilitary police broke up small protests, calling for the release of political prisoners. dissent in kazakhstan is dangerous. i arranged to meet one of the country's most outspoken opposition politicians. we followed him out of his city, almaty, afterfour years in prison. he prefers to talk away from prying eyes. translation: for the president, any form of disse

kazakh chinese border, an extraordinary new city is taking place.h free trade zone plans for casinos and shopping malls. the biggest of the steps. kazakhstan's president has benn the presi's for 27 years. he is an autocrat, he wins elections with 97% of the vote. capital, thenew president has created an international financial center. here, british judges using british common law have been reto convince foreign investors it is a safe place for theimoney. >> the absolute, robust integrity of our judges. they would not stay here if there was not amm genuine itment to strict adherence to the rule of law. >> some old hard.et habits die last month, pamilitary broke up small protests callie for the rele political prisoners. dissent is dangerous. i arranged to meet to one of the country'most outspoken politicians. his cityed him out of after four years of prison, and he prefers to talk away from prying eyes. >> for the president, any form of dissent constitutes a crime agait the state. he removes all players from the espolitical landscape who ot support hi

the 36 year old kazakh fighter was asked to fight ukraine's sergiy derevyanchenko by the 3rd of auguston the title by beating canadian david lemieux in 2015 but it's now vacant. britain's billyjoe saunders holds the wbo title. the ibf will identify "two leading contenders" to fight for its belt. team sky won wednesday's third stage of the criterium du dauphine — a team time trial — to put michal kwiatkowski back into the overall lead. sky won the 35 kilometer stage in a time of 36 minutes and 33 seconds. daryl impey — who had led before the stage — dropped to eighth in the overall standings, after his mitchelton—scott team finished fourth. the third match in the final searing gets under way. the warriors lead to games to nil in the best—of—7 series. game three, and for both in clevela nd. series. game three, and for both in cleveland. until next time, goodbye for now. hello there. good morning. the weather looks very sluggish over the next few days into the weekend as well. so it is going to be difficult to get the detail right. wednesday, most places had a warm, summer's day. not much

much and then datacom i did it three in fact this kind of cut out all the ninth time in the matching kazakh have been my best friend just helped out. and no look at it is a pity and is ahead and panic and start to it and i like them i might start saying i messed them up you are not on but nothing on the facts of i don't fit in how i come in this time i thought i had thought that might be able to marshal to be sure if. i did ya know i know enough not about i got into. if it fucked up. i mean i for some it would but i don't. know what that had already. the how does my head on i want to. go and it's mine ok i mean i can't experience but this to be a studious deeds and i don't know how i'm going to. miss mckibben the new i know. what i know is that this is the good name of people i know not after that i'm a pseudo kid in the heart of russia you can shove it out robin's a mess of it a bit if you know if you know anything about it i mean and i and i bought myth that i'd been to did many years now and the vatican is not coming and i wish he'd been eleven experimental in afghan now. so it's coming

is north of uzbekistan in kazakh a stand kazakh stand sciencereally shows how is grinding forward comegoing to mars. it is something that touches everyone. the others are going up for the first time. we understand the german astronauts first flight was in 2014 has part of the expedition increment. tom: very good. we will look for that launch in about an hour, hour and a half. this is a real treat. us, his-chairman with lifelong commitment to stewardship on wall street. someone living it in real time is the chief u.s. equity strategist for citigroup. i want to talk about the equity markets and where you are in --ch on how wall street this morning? >> a moderate bowl. note will be upside, but that fabulous. we have to high rates, inflation along with some of the uncertainties out there. there are a number of forces restraining great into zs and. tom: what are you hearing from companies? the synnex aren't surprised by that. is there an investment spirit among large multinationals? >> there is. companies, these are come a capitall expenditures were up 8% for 2018 when we did the study. whe

candlelight dinner held the night before the inauguration at union station, the train station was a kazakh mining mogul who's been hit with european money laundering charges. also at the candlelight dinner the night before the inauguration was a billionaire russian oligarch stopped at a new york airport by federal agents working for special counsel robert mueller's office. that oligarch is subject to sanctions now by the u.s. government. he's the same guy who put trump's personal lawyer michael cohen on a million dollar contract to do -- nobody's sure what -- right after trump was elected. so we had known before that there were at least a few well connected russians who inexplicably turned up at the trump inauguration. this new abc reporting gives us a bunch more names. and it gives us the knowledge that they were invited to not just the inauguration but exclusive events. according to abc news, three sources with knowledge of the matter tells abc news the presence of the well connected, government connected russianls s has attracted the interest of federal investigators probing russian eff

get people like the president over as a vice president or better routes the bolivian president the kazakh president the kyrgyz president which basically paints a picture that this is with a few exceptions largely a kind of post soviet affair most of the leaders who are coming here are going to be from you know the former communist states of the u.s.s.r. and its near abroad and i think that kind of reinforces what i was saying in my report that we just watched that you know with western leaders annoyed at russia at the moment for a good many reasons most of them have chosen to stay away from this world cup well will continue to follow events with year area and the teams across russia that are reporting for c.n.n. i'll just say we're the month long football fest begins thank you. well i have some boxes here in a moment where the look at the weather here on al-jazeera then he has. also big to deal with north korea he's an unwise person and no one has confidence in him no faith in the deal the warning some iranians have for north korea. and in sport will have the latest from the united states