{"id":40408,"date":"2022-01-06T16:12:40","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T07:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2022\/jan\/06\/apparent-gunshots-heard-during-protests-in-kazakhstans-biggest-city-video"},"modified":"2022-01-06T16:12:40","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T07:12:40","slug":"gunfire-heard-during-protests-in-kazakhstans-biggest-city-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40408","title":{"rendered":"Gunfire heard during protests in Kazakhstan&#8217;s biggest city \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Footage taken on the streets of Almaty appears to show guns being fired as unrest continues. Initially angered by a fuel price rise, protesters have been storming buildings and chanting against President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev&#8217;s predecessor, Nursultan Nazarbayev. State buildings have been torched and eight security personnel reported dead in the demonstrations. The internet was shut down and &#8216;peacekeeping forces&#8217; from a Russian-led alliance of former Soviet states will be sent to&nbsp;Kazakhstan&nbsp;to help stabilise the country<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/05\/kazakhstan-protests-president-threatens-ruthless-crackdown\">Kazakhstan protests: Moscow-led alliance sends \u2018peacekeeping forces\u2019<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/gallery\/2022\/jan\/06\/violent-clashes-in-kazakhstan-amid-fuel-protests-in-pictures\">Violent clashes in Kazakhstan amid fuel protests \u2013 in pictures<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2022\/jan\/06\/apparent-gunshots-heard-during-protests-in-kazakhstans-biggest-city-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Footage taken on the streets of Almaty appears to show guns being fired as unrest continues. Initially angered by a fuel price rise, protesters have been storming buildings and chanting against President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev&#8217;s predecessor, Nursultan N&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[221,262,80,419,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-kazakhstan","category-protest","category-russia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40409,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40408\/revisions\/40409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}