presence here in the capital city is actually not that big. this sort of also wasn t one of the epicenters of the protest. that was another city and there is also where you have those big international forces led by russia on the ground and patrolling there as well. i was actually able to speak to a senior kazakhkazakhstani offi moments ago. how close to losing control of the situation? he said dangerously close to losing control of the biggest city where more than 100 people were killed in that city alone and says it was those russian-led forces that really did turn the tide, because they secured a lot of areas and freed up some of those kazakhstani forces that then, of course, went after those protesters, where we saw troubling images of soldiers opening fire in the streets as well. the kazakhstani government