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with mike's cars or there are no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars a report. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you don't know i'm tom harkin welcome to the big picture. since ancient times this country has been called the under fire there are places here when natural gas busts out from under the mixing will soon soil before exploding into flames. it's a miracle of nature there's nothing like it anywhere in the world most of our

country is called the land of fire. the first fortress tile is a pit here on the caspian shore in the twelfth century people build the houses inside the walls. today this ancient district of baquba is on unesco's 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 internet but. they found ancient rocks that. l. dug a similar a name. and now two of the most well known people in azerbaijan know that as they did it just these completely self-taught autists managed to exceed all expectations by taking first price at the euro vision song contest hands.

lately eldar have trouble avoiding fun seeking water graphs or taking pictures with the. congressional. this goes thank you yes we have some guests who are on their radios by johnny's. stomach so it will fit in the frame. of the day when the azerbaijani duet emerged victorious people flooded onto the streets of back. yes it 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 be more. crazy across the uk when it was new question were waving the azerbaijani flying from their car sunroofs if it was marvelous.

we're so happy there's a legend was there legend has made its mark. on. the republic of us a by zhang is located on the southwestern shore of the caspian sea as a by john borders russia and georgia to the north on meaning into the west and around to the self it separated from the u.s.s.r. in ninety 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. at that time as a by john had a national liberation movement called the popular from. the movement and staged mass protests around the country seizing government buildings when the situation got out of control the authorities introduced a state of emergency 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 from alofa d.s. brother bill was among the first victims. after they launched the flare the tanks came in and started firing. i noticed that it will harm was not by my side and. he went down to the square to meet the tangs. he raised his arms up and said but don't fire them he said what that means these people are unarmed for god's sake don't shoot. was mortally wounded some time later his pregnant wife took her own life all their relatives have left of them a family photos at the births for these and this is my brother and theories are at their wedding of what they're going. to go with it's when their home was putting

the ring on her finger called so. everyone who died in baquba in one nine hundred ninety is buried at the city's alley of heroes from aloft the dia of rests next to his wife his mother and brother often come to the memorial cemetery. my son who dreams remained unfulfilled. every year on the last day of june as a by johnny's commemorate the dead couple. yes ruta leap of who was elected the first president of independent as

a by john ruled for two years during his term in office as head of the 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 ruse in kazakstan. 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 the 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 on port and this is the biggest pipeline in the caspian regio with the capacity of one point two million barrels a day. this is commonly acknowledged that azerbaijan knows a successful oil and gas development to the so-called contract of the century. it was signed in one thousand 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 coil and amoco to develop as a vice younes oil fields in the caspian sea nowadays as a by john is number one in the commonwealth of independent states in terms of per capita vesper. the feel if it was for the door for work the government is doing all it can in these days to foil development production and transportation. so as to cater to multiple customers which you as a result we have great prospects to do with over the. german reporter hans you 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 they can do. to put. forward. in business and. one of us advised 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 ring 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 piano for one twenty one upright piano we have two hundred thirty strings more or less. every string is different as the other the length the diameter and is made by hand built man 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 to. hear the word about on the autumn method a medic he will think you know this 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. the. question is that so much of i was about to fade into i didn't want to give it real

to a full almost immediately and to collapse of the soviet union twenty years ago to the commonwealth of independent states which stablished its original intent seen by many. emission free accreditation free zones for charges free arrangement free risk free. to tide free. download free broadcast quality video for your media projects and free media and on to r t dot com you. get are sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture.

world terms of the. science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got the future covered. downtown back on 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 architectural relic crimes danger fortifications the than george bush speech is. that the thing of all of. this war was a record in the twelfth century by shocks aton the first did a lot of fortify the city inner city book remained an impregnable fortress that

even the mongols failed to conquer in the thirteenth century. that was when the mungo army encountered the so-called liquid fire which the defenders of back would douse their enemies heads with it took scientists a couple of centuries to figure out that it was simply burning oil. moving with this thing and here we can see the openings that were used to poor oil down the wall. with 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 verio brand of jazz the music combines easton tunes with elements of the western musical tradition. jazz of old another by john in the one nine hundred thirty s. it was pretty limited to in the soviet times but today it is she very popular once more. on government it brings harmony is wrong and it puts you in a certain mood and the folks many colors through that will 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 love of the. same 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 and 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. and hello. even though most refugees have managed to settle down they still hope to return home someday. but i didn't matter how good it may be here homeland is then it's always better for a person to be where he was born. i miss my homeland. despite the fact that twenty years of post i'm ready to return there right now. the new go no karabakh conflict was frozen in one nine hundred ninety four after the two sides signed a cease fire. came to power peaceful negotiations started and the leader of managed to secure a cease fire zim in the president also tried to resolve the conflict peacefully conflict this with all in a bunch of stuff. the negotiations between us by john and amina 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 there via rand is far too long and expensive. there are heaps of an autonomous republic is located in the southern part of the trans caucasus it is a landlocked azerbaijan enclave bordering on mania turkey and around the republic's population amounts to four hundred thousand people the republicans actively trading with iran and turkey archaeologists say to 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. . form a president of azerbaijan. of was born here there is a street a square and a museum and his own. if they don't believe in his son it'll come more always together. there was his advisor home followed in his footsteps. in two thousand and three shortly before his death gaydar removed his candidacy from the presidential list in favor of his son.

not far from our lives family estate is situated one of the islam's 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. lots of people visit this shrine and they want to feel close to our. 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 stupid 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 god.

the city used to be the capital of caucasian albania a state that emerged on as a territory in the fourth century b.c. . in the car 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 the good i say this man is my ancestor are you snow yes absolutely. artifacts found in god could be similar to those in the ancient back who fortress archaeologists assure that people have lived here since the bronze age. ancient people living on the territory of us and by john 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 slopers covered the

tunnel flames it is not only the burns and as a pleasure the temperature of the water to meet 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. t. 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 the fama of his family has been in the tea business for fifty years now. so now we start gathering tea. please make sure that the tea leaves comply with the

set standards. to growing in the south of us advise young is a priority industry according to local scientists the t. grown on this land is chemically different to other kinds of tea it contains lots of time it essential oils and caffeine. but the committee growing process requires a lot of effort including irrigation and fertilizers 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 are 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 to leave. after they're processed the tea will be packed and is then ready to be drunk gov lusterless. the village of sat 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. religion as you can see would cover the teapot with a 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. when

a virgo 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. home by journey carpets are different from all other kinds of carpets in color they are produced differently too. in the old times as a by johnny 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 wall did i do

it right the end of the needle and pull it down. nowadays citizens of azerbaijan's capital enjoy walking by the city see front. one side you can see the old fortress from the other oil platforms in the cusp you see. here the past on the present have merged together fluidly. culture is that so much i was about to fail and those i like to listen to forgive me really until i was told almost immediately i'm going to collapse of the soviet union twenty years ago the commonwealth of independent states would stop motion in

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