i would go in the woods or i think. that i was a good soldier. well you know most soldier on the other side and i think i'm just a good. quarterback you without saying yes we had the week's top stories here former general calls the genocide charges against him monstrous also via fines that extradite him to the hague is not the past trial in the e.u. that he had hoped for. israeli forces reportedly killed four and ten pro palestinian protesters stormed the border in syria the forty fourth anniversary of the middle east. and helicopters roar into libya's sky that's

nato aims to break months of deadlock sparking fears that a ground invasion may already be in the works. explain it blames it continue to the brink of a bailout by prematurely accusing it of starting the deadly e. coli outbreak investigators are now homing in on a german restaurant as a possible source. those are the headlines of the past we cannot see you next we have a special report about the former soviet republic of armenia and how it's changed in the last twenty. people living in this land seven thousand years ago were already making wine and shoes this world's oldest shoe was found right here in this hole in the fourth century armenia adopted christianity as its state religion is fit for us in the early twentieth century armenians went through the horrors of genocide in total only one point five million

. we killed. armenia program free from the soviet union in september one thousand nine hundred ninety one was hands independence brought to this ancient country. in two thousand and eight archeologist police custody and could have rivaled armenian politicians in terms of popularity news of his discovery had spread far and wide throughout the world in caves in the mountains around the village of early need the archaeologists had found the settlements dating back to the year five thousand b.c. the goods in this also believed this was for among the first finds a reason when we saw them it was immediately clear to us that by a third from the copper in stone age that means the people were already living in the east coast seven thousand years ago so even the communities mentoring very

close contact inhabited an area through your tween the north caucasus and miss the time of year they used to migrate from north to south and self to north of the sea . excavation work at the site of the ancient settlement has been going on for three years now but archaeologists are still unable to say with certainty what kind of people lived in these caves seven thousand years ago. just take a look and see a very interesting ritual the bodies of babies on one year of age old verity intact but women between the ages of eleven twenty thought it was simply chalked up before burials. the most interesting artifact was found in the caves in two thousand and eight the world's oldest shoe was dug up from a depth of just half a meter is estimated to be about six thousand years old this world's oldest shoe

was ground right here in this hole it was a great deal of effort to get it to the discovery of the settlement is an event of crucial importance to the small transco cajun country armenians are proud of the long history of this land and the find reinforces their pride. in on the union there are a few other handicrafts they can unite generations is not such as the making of hatch cards or tombstones. the art has undergone little change throughout its thousand year history and hammer chisel and stone are all that's needed for the job a man and his grandson a working on this much god. is you know i've done this i like the job. it is handed down from generation to generation. the one who taught me as my grandfather. over the course of his long life the elderly man has made scores of hatch cars nowadays in mentors his grandson

in the ways of hatch car sculpting. there are millions of hijackers here each with a different history they differ just as people do all of the curbing patterns are different even on some particular tombstone there's a to show that the world isn't perfect. each grave or ministry has its own tailormade tombstone normally it takes about a month to make this symmetry in a village of norrath those is one of the oldest in armenia the long history of this caucasian country a history packed with. drama can be traced by looking at the tombstones until the seventh century garden look quite simple at that there is nothing but across a car that first crossed after.

the hatch got us in the cemetery don't feature carvings although the graveyard of the small town of spitfire is much larger. before the quake it was a small symmetry but as you can see now it's quite big. which are some of it too soon for today's to bury quake victims are tossed such as seann comes to the symmetry quite often the always follows the same route in this mortal place as he moves from one grave to another one december the seventh one thousand nine hundred eighty eight lost nearly all of his family. it was ten forty am when the first tremor with a magnitude of seven on the richter scale shook spit out thirty seconds later the tiny town was no more just

a pile of rubble. more than the one of the in main street in the center of the town was c. and. one quake struck there were people in every apartment of a five story houses to phyllis's here and both sides of the road the only one of which you gradually all of them fell a plant a few fish only roost lionel's field could be seen after the quake you know right. there is a church where our tours house once was more than twenty years on there are few reminders of that devastating earthquake. but in a cold month of december one thousand nine hundred eighty eight people around the world came to know the name of this small town in armenia aid began pouring in. from across the soviet union at that time armenia was part of it. the powerful earthquake affected all of armenia's northern areas as well as. the scale of the disaster only became apparent after several days just

a handful of people had survived under the rubble the earthquake it claimed twenty five thousand lives. such as the huge did or when the smoke cleared away three or four hours after the earthquake became clear that the town had been razed to the ground where they'd begin arriving towards leaving because there were no rumors or. some of the aid came from numerous diasporas in foreign countries. this footage shows charles as an avoider a french singer of armenian origin after a visit to devastated states attack he vowed to do his best to help armenia. to some of the stuff i was really shocked by what i saw in streetcar. i couldn't imagine their polling scale of that disaster. because so many people were killed here but. the french senior set up

a fund for the earthquake struck country the money was used to restore dozens of houses in spits hakon gordie's armenia's second largest town to have been affected by the disaster the town's residents unveiled a monument to as know for as a token of gratitude to him here for a movie on build a monument on the twenty second of september in two thousand our truth was novel people from all over our new came here who were also visitors from france. after the breakup of the soviet union in one nine hundred ninety one reconstruction work in armenian town slowed down the new houses built in the three years after the disaster made up only one fifth of those destroyed by. the earthquake. we came here on december second we were given a room on the ground floor and we still live here most of the tenants here are refugees. coronado petit and his family also lost their home in december one

thousand nine hundred eighty eight they became refugees but not as a result of the earthquake it was a bloody interethnic conflict that forced them to flee. armenia is a republic situated in the trans caucuses enjoying the soviet union in one thousand nine hundred twenty two when the republic won independence in september one thousand nine hundred ninety one this was the most troubled region in the post soviet space the country was at war with neighboring azerbaijan over nagorno-karabakh. that chart the wood for the winter.

this was and this is our home not user my grandchildren doing their homework or choosing. the fault is our store for them we made it their selves because there is no other source of reading in here this sort of news which. is house in azerbaijan's capital of baquba was larger and more comfortable they had to leave their native city in a hurry already there was gunfire in the corner kind of block as an by johnnie's were fleeing that area meanwhile the situation for armenians living. azerbaijan was becoming increasingly dangerous. and we went through quite a good deal for instance my husband had an aunt with a dark complexion it was easy to see that she was or me and she was attacked several times under natural. the conflicts root cause stems from the one nine

hundred twenty s. when azerbaijan and armenia joined the soviet union the golan and care about a territory where armenians had been a predominant population from time immemorial was placed on the other by john's control they didn't matter much you controlled nagorno-karabakh back then the soviet republics or part of an integrated country by the time bomb eventually went off and violence erupted between the two in the late one nine hundred eighty s. . the soviet government showed signs of weakness at the start of perestroika when people were told they could speak up without running the risk of being imprisoned or executed through the people across the soviet union began talking about their concerns and a millions in a golden color work started asking questions they wanted to know why the old part of azerbaijan even though armenia was next door to a country populated by people of the same nationality and culture.

but who flatly rejected the advance demands the nagorno-karabakh be handed over to armenians control. meanwhile the first major interethnic conflict was gathering pace in the soviet union south it had been fuelled by events in the small town of some guy eight the azerbaijan's capital will soon god massacre was the point of no return people were murdered mind you people were killed not in the going to care about itself but in soon going to a town situated far from the going to care about going to go to that there is no war now that there is no peace either knew there was no peace treaty to control the . no longer and i'm certainly not dodging about those times here is nearly dead you i was in the army then was memories of those days comfort in france and this is vocal

. there is a map of the soviet union in go to a night of petty ends workshop as a tailor in need something colorful to rest his eyes on the map also gives food for thought he recalls the days when everybody lived in the same country a country that later burst at the seams. this is their own home which was founded in november two thousand and one of the set of found the barrel of a college in there and is a descend between them thank you and i am a. nobody at this to siri can say with any certainty when cognac from this barrel will be bottles but it has every chance of becoming a vintage brand adding to the distilleries rich collection. add stella cents to

a trench of three hundred bottles and branded me each here and that's why they call it ground. the british prime minister was not alone in appreciating this brandy in soviet times armenian cognac was the main symbol of the republic. many agreed that the strong beverage produced in the trans caucuses could easily compete with french cognac manufacturers and. change in sumi going to flavor is intense you can sense a whole bouquet of flavors vs corporate it's a unique beverage has just changed the rules here i can detect the flavor of our brands the sunshine of the air and valley and of beauty of our landscapes have been . the production process in armenia and france is totally identical as spirits are distilled in the same way and the oak barrels look very much alike the armenians are just proud of their product as the french are of their is going out i think that calling up just one of the most important and the most recognizable

brands produced in our needing it well that's it well you can see the elites want to warn me as symbols of. nouns and of that's can be seen from several spots. the entire history of the armenian people is links to it but it's off limits to armenians they can't reconcile themselves with a loss. while kings go mad their people suffer. how some to good advantage of power that was given to them. secrets of big dirty money. on r.g.p. . wealthy british style like it's a. buyer's.

market. can find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines going in to cause a report on. the mountains height is five thousand one hundred thirty seven meters above sea level according to the bible mount outwards was the first landmark the no a song after escaping the great flood. or you know in the bible testify and it is connected with noir arc saw after the google noir arc stopped on the peak of moment. however is the main source of pain and suffering for armenians under the nine hundred twenty one agreements signed by soviet and turkish leaders the symbolic announcing was left on the other side of the border the mountain. into

territory of turkey but still it continues to be our main scene i mean people they are asked about their identities they start with the mound. the fact that out of that is no longer in their territory also serves as a reminder of the greatest tragedy of the country's people the armenian genocide genocide is the word used in armenian to describe the policy pursued by the ottoman empire was ethnic armenians from the late nineteenth century through to the nineteenth twenties into the ninety eighty ninety four ninety and twenty two would in thirty years nearly to me a pretty us new one point five million armenians killed brutally at the same time turkey was the first country to officially recognize armenians independence in one nine hundred ninety one today to. because society is divided over the events that led to the deaths of one and

a half million armenians in the early twentieth century and killer a fuse is to officially acknowledge the fact there what happened a century ago was genocide is one of the hard those. problems informations was the fundamental problem fundamental problem here is that. in order to sort of facing its own history and try and keep trying to deny the very part of take issue shameful pate of its own history i mean in genocide we're writing history is one of the dangerous processes in every society uncurse supported as otherwise than at the height of the ethnic conflicts over nagorno-karabakh they closed its borders to armenians the border between armenia and azerbaijan is likewise locked up. given airport is the main gateway to armenia travelers have little choice considering year of iran's difficult relations with neighboring countries these east way of getting together van is by air with both of

. you have to go by here if you want to leave early and we'll see only we because this country has been blockaded throughout the post soviet period. there really has learned borders with georgia in iran but there is a little cross border traffic theory and therefore gone by here is still of their starch. nearly every plane is filled to capacity it's clearly demonstrated by flights going to russia which is now armenia's biggest economic partner one of the largest armenian diasporas is found in moscow and elf made these deviation is the only means of transport for amenia it's obvious that there is no other way out. that's why our planes are always fools passengers. thanks.

armenia was the world's first country to turn christianity into a state's religion that was way back in the early fourth century a.d. for more than fifteen centuries armenians have regarded space and church as a substitute for the state. hey our commitment saving human souls and preserving the nation are the two missions pursued by the armenian church today as it has been doing throughout its existence archon we're doing our best to remedy the harm done by the genocide of armenians and eighty years of godlessness under the soviet regime. fortunately the soviet campaign to stamp out the church had little impact in armenia it didn't affect the scores of ancient monasteries many of them are over

a thousand years old. it's now possible to reach the top tier of ministry one of armenians oldest by cableway. is the world's longest reversible roadway a fifteen minute journey offers a magnificent view of a deep picturesque. just numbers we're in the cabin of the total of cableway the world's longest it links the village of avid sword to the total monastery but there's this five thousand seven hundred fifty meters long and its highest point above ground is three hundred twenty meters and. when the cableway was opened in october twenty ten the hope was that it would attract foreign tourists. its design is unique in many ways for instance the nearly six kilometer long papal way has only three supports european specialists help to build it.

this is our main electric generator it produces five hundred thirty three kilowatts here you can see the emergency diesel generators that if the electricity fails we will turn these on and of back you with the passengers we have a great safety system in place too and. most of the cable car passengers are people living in nearby villages who gets. free transport influx of foreign tourists is small for the time being but the businessmen who have invested in the ambitious project believe that in a couple of years armenia will become a popular tourist destination. hotels and campsites are already being built around the monastery and the cable way. we need water of different temperatures to treat gastrointestinal diseases were destroyed as in particular if the patient is suffering from high city of destroys the temperature of the mineral water we give him is between fifty and fifty three degrees celsius in the low as it

is the case is it's from thirty to thirty five degrees or that of. the town of jenin maclise in the mountains during the soviet years people here already knew how to attract tourists a spa similar to the celebrated karlovy valley resorts has been in operation in general for decades that it must survive the composition of our war or is doing better than that of the water it's our little bar in the czech republic. our water contains more arms here and so minerals than all the. local mineral water is yet another armenian brand it is true though that it's not as famous as cognac or ancient monasteries but residents of gender merc hope that the water and spa resort will be another incentive for people to visit armenia. a german all communal water is springs from the ground in those gorge. between forty five and

sixty degrees or what was sold thirty minutes result from our mineral water of the . in the time being only tourists from russia visit the gentleman explains. this huge bucket contains molten alimony and it will take several hours and a production process involving a dozen phases for the allen medium to be turned into super fine for oil this plant is one of amin is leading industrial enterprises like many others it was inherited from the soviet era but like most other industrial plants he said on all during the first years of independence that was a very difficult period for this nation the plan survival began in two thousand when he became part of a row. and holding them up this is not the front was reopened after modernization. despite the crisis it has grown stronger with each passing year it is their actions in armenians worked here together the assets are rushing off each. other turn step

on young represents what might be called the local element in him in a state his father used to work at this plant filed in my mother and father used to work here now it's time for my brother and me i'm not a unique case and everybody here has taken the job over from their old folks. the plant is one of the most successful in the country it should come as no surprise they have russian investment and the whole of the coaxes as their markets. would say for example the color of the more taro you see a little you it's me we get dies from herbs or go to mixture of the many dyes meets the road look darker it looks like terry if there are fewer daughters the root of matter produces a very beautiful red dye no chemicals around it nothing but natural components making rugs is

a family business to the subtleties of this very old all meaning handicraft handed down from generation to generation. caused the little square means and not just a weave roll after oh but you every color is here it is. like the elemental implants this factory had the soviets past behind it then automatically brought in to make rugs quickly and in large quantities none the less ancient technologies have become popular in armenia since independence. it takes a month for the weaver to complete one square meter is also a very difficult job with taking a lot of air for for that reason their prices are higher than those of machine me. researcher a good home is seen as a sign of wealth. there are some ten million ethnic armenians around the world just so over three million of them live in armenia the armenians at home believe that

the worst of their country's history is a thing of the past any advantage they like to say the nights are their darkest just before dawn people across armenia believe that dawn has already broken over their country.