the. book back here with me here is a look at the top stories new arrests and evictions as u.s. police turn to tougher tactics against the occupy movement putting out a cover cops at the heart of the protest. paltrow president medvedev orders an investigation into the alleged parliamentary election bringing which sparked massive rallies across russia. and flogging a dead economy e.u. lenders and bankers swarm back to greece with more bailout instructions as europe's failure to form a controversial fiscal union pushes athens further towards

a default. setting controversy in ukraine linked bank based across the atlantic lures in customers with a credit card seen around a diamond that killed millions. so they have lines here in our news continues at the top of the hour and meantime though we look at the past taken by x. soviet states after the union collapsed twenty years ago and starting with study the fate of john. since ancient times this country has been called the land of fire there are places here when natural gas bursts out from under the earth mixing will soon soil before exploding into flames. it's a miracle of nature there's nothing like it anywhere in the world catches our country is called the land of fire. the first fortress tile as appeared here on the caspian shore in the twelfth century people build the houses inside the walls today

this ancient district of baquba is on the nest goes world heritage list how does this not the aura of this place is so amazing it's so easy to spend hours here just breathing this air that blows in from the north of the through the in taking in the scenery the war. since gaining independence in one thousand nine hundred ninety one azerbaijan has gone through two difficult decades it has overcome political turmoil after nearly descending into civil war and built a new basis for its economy. so . say. you. and me you. said you know that we had an underwater city

there's. no engineers but. they found ancient rocks that. as dug a similar a new joe mouth and now two of the most well known people in azerbaijan. know there is a bit to see. completely self-taught artists managed to exceed all expectations by taking first price at the euro vision song contest hands. lately eldar have trouble avoiding fun seeking more to graphs taking pictures with

. their solutions goes thank you we have some guests murong there are a zero zero zero zero zero nice. stomach so it'll fit in the frame. of the day when the azerbaijani duet emerged victorious people flooded onto the streets of back. yes there was a big celebration it would have been really interesting to see how people reacted in front of their t.v.'s at home when they learned to meet my. friends universal when a new question were waving the azerbaijani flying from their car sunroofs if it was marvelous. the there's a genuine legend has made its mark. on. the republic of us

a by john is located on the southwestern shore of the caspian sea. does russia and georgia to the north on meaning into the west and around to the south it separates true the u.s.s.r. and nine hundred ninety one before the break up there was an ethnic conflict with. one of the most tragic events in azerbaijan history was when troops were deployed in the capital back in one nine hundred ninety. of the. time as a by john had a national liberation movement called the popular front the movement of staged mass protests around the country seizing government buildings when the situation got out of control the authorities introduced a state of emergency on almost all of us a by chance terror trick on january the twentieth one thousand nine hundred ninety tanks and tobacco to restore order during the turmoil one hundred thirty seven people were killed. there for a laugh a dear brother. was among the first victims. after

they launched a flare the tanks came in and started firing. on the notice that ilham was not by my side and. he went down to the square to meet the tanks rookie he raised his arms up and said but don't file go he said look into these people are unarmed for god's sake don't shoot. him from was mortally wounded some time later his pregnant wife took her own life all their relatives have left of them a family photos. for these and this is my brother and theories are at their wedding. it's when i was putting the ring on her finger so.

everyone who died in back in ninety ninety is buried at the city's alley of heroes farm alofa dia rests next to his wife his mother and brother often come to the memorial cemetery. a son who dreams remained unfulfilled. every year on the last day of june as a by johnny's commemorate the dead couple. i asked to leave of who was elected the first president of independent azerbaijan ruled for two years during his term in office as head of a new state he was faced with many tough problems.

i witnessed that period if the bag then all i could think about was how are we going to survive how are we going to pay for green iraq and everything else we were getting from russia ukraine is a bell or ruse in kazakstan is a we didn't have our own gold or foreign reserves or even a currency of our own and for we had absolutely nothing. today as a by john's international reserves amount to thirty five billion u.s. dollars the country gets its money from hydrocarbon exports it is estimated that the oil and gas supplies here will last for one hundred years. the outskirts of baquba home to the world's largest oil and gas terminal to have permission to open the pipe. it transports caspian oil to the

mediterranean through the back to tbilisi j. hunt pipeline it is a boon for both as a by john and the european consumers of the other end who buy caspian oil. this is the b.b.c. pipeline which starts at sandwich i'll go through georgia and stop in turkey j homeport and this is the biggest pipeline in the caspian regio with the capacity over one point two million barrels a day. this is commonly acknowledged that azerbaijan knows his successful oil and gas development to the so-called contract of the century. it was signed in one nine hundred ninety four by then president gaydar father of the present leader of azerbaijan. he invited about a dozen of the world's largest oil and gas corporations including b.p. exon new coiled and amoco to develop as a vice johns oil fields in the caspian sea nowadays azerbaijan is number one in the

commonwealth of independent states in terms of per capita vesper. the feel if it was for the war for work the government is doing all it can in these days to diversify oil development production and transportation. so as to cater to multiple customers which are as a result we have great prospects of it with the. german reporter hans york can bet has lived and worked in azerbaijan for twenty years he has witnessed all the changes bolton de azerbaijan has gone through. really in. the men's income. solving income like that. what it can do. to put. forth. in business

and. one of us a by john's major interests is in foreign investment and seeks to provide favorable conditions for foreign businesses in the city of gebal three hundred kilometers north of back to the piano factory can be found. coming from a family of piano makers turns left wing has shifted the production of his time on a piano from germany to azerbaijan claims his business is the largest of its kind in all of asia. this model pianos are one twenty one upright piano we have two hundred thirty strings more or less. every story is different as the other the length by a metre and is made by hand bellman used to be a european brand for over one hundred years until hans left rink left his home country for azerbaijan and took his entire business with him.

here the work on the autumn method i think he will think is because as my grandmother used to say always if you say in this case. they have to say be either and that's belgium piano. all. culture is that so much now is about the feeling i think if i'm going to give it

real full almost immediately collapse of the soviet union twenty years ago the commonwealth of independent states would stop its original intent see by many. wealthy british style. free. markets. can find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines to cause a report on our. downtown back to the caspian sea used to lap alongside the capital's full trust and home city until it eventually withdrew leaving the fortress rules exposed every day the keeper of his office relic crimes danger and fortifications that have enjoyed

sieges. yet the. wall was erected in the twelfth century by shocks aton the first did a lot to fortify the city the inner city but remained an impregnable fortress that even the monk will spill to conquer in the thirteenth century. that was when the monk counted the so-called liquid fire pushed the defenders of wood doused their enemies heads with it took scientists a couple of centuries to figure out that it was simply burning oil. his moving is this thing i hear we can see the openings that we're used to poor oil down the wall yes. then the entire wall would be engulfed in flames and it would be impossible to climb out of the. old back who is considered a cultural treasure and is protected by unesco.

when nightfall use the look of the city changes dramatically as cafes and live music halls open. music thomas says come head to enjoy azerbaijan's very own brand of jazz the music combines easton tunes with the elements of the western musical tradition. jazz evolved another by john in the one nine hundred thirty s. it was prohibited to in the soviet times but today it is she very popular once more . on government it brings harmony it puts you in a certain mood it under folks many colors through that we give each person hears the music in different ways whether by genre he's considered jazz their own as a belgian it's their national music styles of.

sayings that day was brought to back who when he was a child twenty years ago his family fled from the atrocities of the night go to make our buck war. according to baquba records almost one million azerbaijanis were forced to flee back on the mania. of. the ticking time bomb of the nagorno-karabakh conflict started with the dawn of the soviet union when armenia and azerbaijan became part of the u.s.s.r. for a long time there was no question about to control the region the war between the two states over nagorno-karabakh started at the end of the nineteen eighties after most come loose and its grip on the republics today nagorno-karabakh remains on recognized its main parties and amin is control but azerbaijan still considers nagorno-karabakh part of its territory. in time the refugees managed to

settle down in their new homes. i remember the time when we arrived here we lived in her condition that there were two families to a house but we believed that we would get help and i want to thank the country providing us with a good home. hello to you by. now . even though most refugees have managed to settle down they still hope to return home someday. but neither their matter how good it may be here homeland is there it's always better for a person to be where he was born. i miss my homeland. despite the fact that twenty years have passed i'm ready to return there right now. the new goal no conflict was frozen in one nine hundred ninety four after the two sides signed

a cease fire. came to our peaceful negotiations started managed to secure a far. because he's really conflict and civil in a bunch of stuff. the negotiations between us by john ona media are still ongoing with the help of russia but the parties have not yet signed a peace treaty on the going to come back. in a feature vanno thomas republic is six hundred kilometers to the west of baquba one can only get to this as a bunch of enclaves surrounded by other countries but playing the highway across some menial has been closed while traveling never iran is far too long and expensive. the hitch of an autonomous republic is located in the southern part of the transco casus it is

a landlocked azerbaijan enclave bordering on mania and around the republic's population amounts to four hundred thousand people the republic is actively trading with a random turkey archeologist side of the republic's capital of the he chavan is one of the oldest cities in the east the first mention of the city dates back to fifteen thirty nine b.c. . former president of azerbaijan live was born here there is a street a square and a museum and his own. around here they don't live in the sun little some more always together. though also father was his advisor your want their home followed in his footsteps. in two thousand and three shortly before his death gaydar li have removed his candidacy from the presidential list in favor of

his son in a humm. not far from a family estate is situated one of the most sacred places as a coffee. it is even mentioned in the qur'an thousands of pilgrims from many countries come here to pray. for. looks of people who visit this shrine and they want to feel close to. the people make their wishes here and ask god to make them come true. the keeper of the old city is coming from back to up to northern azerbaijan he is to meet with archaeologists. who has made

a number of important discoveries. since you so good we heard you found some new things new we can you show them to us we are always finding new things. is conducting an excavation in the ancient city of. the city used to be the capital of caucasian albania a state that emerged on azerbaijan's territory in the fourth century b.c. . this is a very old site who was this man this man was a citizen of i don't know what he did we know he was a christian as he is buried in accordance with christian rights that there could i say this man is my ancestor are you slow yes absolutely. artifacts found in could be similar to those in the ancient back who fortress archaeologists ashore the people have lived here since the bronze age. ancient

people living on the territory of us at biogen were particularly respectful towards fire a source of light and heat plumes of gas have been burning here for centuries there was a place not far from baquba which is called burning mountain it slopes covered with tunnel flames that is not only land burns and i suppose the temperature of the water underneath the ground can reach seventy degrees it is used for treating people. in the miracle of nature there is nothing like it anywhere else in the world our country is called the land of fire even our water burns because it contains a lot of sulfur this water can treat many illnesses particularly bone diseases like osteoporosis and. plantations can be found three hundred kilometers to the south from back near the iranian border not far from the

city of len qur'an five hectares of land belonging to farm a l e s i live his family has been in the tea business for fifty years now. so now we start gathering tea. please make sure that the tealeaves comply with the same standards. tea growing in the south of us by jan is a priority industry according to local scientists the tigua on this land is chemically different to other kinds of tea it contains lots of time it essential oils and caffeine. but the growing process requires a lot of effort including irrigation and fertilizer it's an industrial roman yana good and the final product depends on how well it has been taken care of.

after their collected the tea leaves of processed at the factory once the leaves are dried and they're sort of taken by hand the result is different sorts of tea. inside we collect the three most tender leaves from the top of each plant we then use those leaves to make of ok. and now as you can see i'm in the process of sorting the leaves. after they're processed the tea will be packed and is then ready to be drunk called lusterless. the village of sadowy on the outskirts of baquba the family of famous carpet we've heard over drinks azerbaijani tea every day even though she is ninety one years old she still remembers weaving carpets that were given as presents to kremlin officials. as you can see we cover the teapot with the towel it

comes out stronger that way a very good mix thanks to that this tea can help us stomach or spared her problems the important thing though is that it gives you energy and puts you in a good mood. mina virtue is grandmother of the family she is passing on her knowledge of carpets to her grandchildren and their children minute verse ten year old granddaughter rock shunned guy over also wants to wave azerbaijani carpets when she's older but right now she's still a beginner. how to see a grandmother. by journey carpets are different from all other kinds of carpets in color and they are produced differently to. in the old times as a biogenic carpets were called solid gold and priced accordingly even today the

price of some handmade carpets can be as high as several thousand dollars. thread the needle here. in the war what did i do it right the end of the needle and you pull it down. nowadays citizens of azerbaijan's capital enjoy walking by the city seafront. one side you can see the old fortress from the other oil platforms and caspian sea . here the past on the present have merged together fluidly.

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