hello. this is bbc news. a government agency in kazakhstan has revised the official assessment of the number of people killed in the violence of the last week increasing it to 164. most of the fatalities were in the biggest city, almaty. more than 5,000 people have been arrested. the unrest began as a protest against the rise in fuel prices, but may have morphed into a power struggle between factions of the ruling elite. russian troops continue to guard strategic facilities. our moscow correspondent steve rosenberg has travelled to kazakhstan s capital. well, the capital of kazakhstan feels pretty calm, really, but after the protests and violence that erupted across much of the country last week, a state of emergency and a curfew remain in place here and nationwide. there is very little connectivity they switch the internet on for maybe three or four hours a day, which makes it very difficult for people to actually work out what s going on here. and although things were much,
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reports from kazakhstan say 164 people died in the violence of the last week. most of the fatalities were in the country s biggest city, almaty. the authorities say more than 5,000 people have been detained. the unrest began as a protest against the rise in fuel prices, but may have morphed into a power struggle between factions of the ruling elite. russian troops continue to guard strategic facilities. our moscow correspondent steve rosenberg has travelled to kazakhstan s capital. well, the capital of kazakhstan feels pretty calm, really, but after the protests and violence that erupted across much of the country last week, a state of emergency and a curfew remain in place here and nationwide. there is very little connectivity they switch the internet on for maybe three or four hours a day, which makes it very difficult for people to actually work out what s going on here. and although things were much, much quieter here than they were in almaty, you can see security has been tighte
region. our moscow correspondent caroline davies described what reaction from russia has been. well, moscow s reaction so far has been directly to say that the west is ramping up tensions here. they say that we ve heard this language from russia multiple times before, blaming the other side. the kremlin spokesperson did also address comments over the course of the weekend from the british foreign office, saying that they had an idea that president putin was planning on putting a puppet government into power in kyiv. he called these comments hysteria laced with fakes, and he also denied the fact that russia could ever stop delivering gas to europe over this tension. but it has still been a very difficult day on the markets here in russia. russian stocks have stumbled, and the ruble is down against the dollar quite significantly. the kremlin have been fairly bullish about this, but it s clear that this is affecting confidence. diplomacy isn t over yet. we are still waiting to hear from a
most of the fatalities were in the country s biggest city, almaty. the authorities say more than 5,000 people have been detained. the unrest began as a protest against the rise in fuel prices, but may have morphed into a power struggle between factions of the ruling elite. russian troops continue to guard strategic facilities. our moscow correspondent steve rosenberg has travelled to kazakhstan s capital. well, the capital of kazakhstan feels pretty calm, really, but after the protests and violence that erupted across much of the country last week, a state of emergency and a curfew remain in place here and nationwide. there is very little connectivity they switch the internet on for maybe three or four hours a day, which makes it very difficult for people to actually work out what s going on here. and although things were much, much quieter here than they were in almaty, you can see security has been tightened. for example, that is the entrance to the presidential palace,