Kazakhstan: The new Silk Road BBC HARDtalk, On the Road (2018)

HARDtalk is on the road in Kazakhstan, a vast country which was for years a remote outpost of the Soviet empire. It is now a crossroad linking China, Russia and Europe far to the west. Kazakhstan has been transformed by oil wealth. But while Central Asia s biggest economy is gearing for change, many who demand political freedoms and human rights are systematically silenced. Will political reform follow in a country whose leader, Nursultan Nazarbayev, has been in power for 27 years and wins elections with 97