with his kazakh counterpart who said the situation in kazakhstan was stabilizing, but hot beds of terrorist attacks persist. dozens of people have reportedly been killed after the kazakh president ordered security force toss kill without warning to crush the violent protests. the situation started with protests over rising fuel costs and then turned into anger over government corruption, poverty and unemployment. cnn s senior international correspondent matthew chance is tracking the developments from moscow for us. what is the latest? reporter: well, it s difficult to get good information out of kazakhstan at the moment because the internet has been down for a long time, it s coming up again sporadically. we managed to speak to some of our contacts on the ground. in terms of the main city the chaos that ruled there for the past several days seems to have eased, we rpt seeing protests in the street jen more.