five thirty am in moscow these are your headlines one of russia's richest men announces he's running for the country's top job with presidential elections scheduled for march. says he's determined to capture the middle class and the liberal vote will go head to head with prime minister vladimir putin and another newcomer in the race leader of the fair russia party sergei moran of. thousands gather again in central moscow this time in support of the ruling united russia party follows a series of mass protests calling for a revote of sunday's parliamentary elections. talks resume on a new bailout for greece in a bid to ease its debt burden but skepticism remains over the efficacy of these rescue measures and this is cracks widening in the e.u. after a new deal to save the eurozone was spurned by britain. and in the us the occupy

movement sets its sights on shutting down the west coast ports while on the other side of the country campaigners face arrest in new york its movements largest combined actions since being evicted for most of their tent camps nationwide there are to headlines up next the story of another former soviet state as are by xian to see how the countries develop since the collapse of the u.s.s.r. it's coming away in our special report stay with us. since ancient times this country has been called the land of fire there are places here when natural gas bursts out from under the mixing with most own soil before exploding into flames. it's a miracle of nature there's nothing like it anywhere in the world nash's 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 back is own nest goes world heritage list oh resist 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 and taking in the scenery the war. since gaining independence in one 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. i. say. i need you. to know that we had an underwater city there's.

no engineers but. they found ancient rocks that. l. dug a sim off a name. and now two of the most well known people in azerbaijan know that it's as if it just the. completely self-taught artists managed to exceed all expectations by taking first price at the euro vision song contest. lately eldar have trouble avoiding fun seeking more to graphs or taking pictures

with the. goods thank you we have some guests murong there are a nice. stomachs a little fit in the frame. of the day when the azerbaijani duet emerged victorious people flooded onto the streets and 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 leave mine. for you both of you for simple waving the azerbaijani flight from their car sunroofs it was marvelous. the message on their legend has made its mark. that. the republican is located on the southwestern shore of the caspian sea.

russia and georgia to the north to the west and to the self it separates true the u.s.s.r. 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 nine hundred ninety. of the. time as a by john had a national liberation movement called the popular from. the atlantic staged mass protests around the country seizing government buildings when the situation got out of control the authorities introduced a state of emergency almost. 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. brother. was among the

first victims. after they launched a flare the tanks came in and started firing. the notice that it was not by my side and. he went down to the square to meet the tanks. he raised his arms up and said but don't fire. he said look and 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 three's are at their wedding. that's why no harm was putting the ring on her finger.

everyone who died in baquba 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. my son who dreams remained unfulfilled. every year on the last day of june as a by johnny's commemorate the dead couple. yes it's a leap of who was elected the first president of independent azerbaijan 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

back then all i could think about was how are we going to survive how are we going to pay for green and everything else we were getting from russia ukraine. as extended. we didn't have our own gold or foreign reserves or even a guernsey of our own 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 a hundred years. the outskirts of baquba to the world's largest oil and gas terminal don't have permission to open the pipe. it transports caspian oil to the

mediterranean through the back to tbilisi j. hahn pipeline it is a boon for those as a by john and the european consumers of the other end to buy caspian oil. this is the b.d.c. pipeline which starts at sangatte shell go through georgia and stop in turkey j homeport and this is the biggest pipeline in the caspian ridge own 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 nine hundred ninety four by then president. father of the present leader of. the invited about a dozen of the world's largest oil and gas corporations including b.p. exon new coil and to develop the. fields in the caspian sea

nowadays azerbaijan is number one in the commonwealth of independent states in terms of capital investment. for the. government is doing all it can in these days to. development production and transportation. so as to cater to multiple customers as a result we have great prospects for the. german reporter that has lived and worked in azerbaijan for twenty years he has witnessed all the changes bolton day as john has gone through. really. solving and come like. what. to put. forth. in business.

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 law 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 he claims his business is the largest of its kind in all of asia. this model for one twenty one upright piano we have two hundred thirty strings more or less. every string is different as the other length by a metre 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. if you're here to

hurt her you know the word to us about on the other methods of ultimate that they will think you know it's because as my grandmother used to say always if you say eight in this case as a baton they have to say be either and as a bell one piano. good

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downtown back on the caspian sea used to lap alongside the capital's full trust an old city until it eventually withdrew leaving the fortress walls exposed every day the keeper of his architectural relic crimes danger fortifications that have enjoyed sieges. yet the. wall was arrested in the twelfth century by shocks aton the for the law to fortify the city their inner city remained an impregnable fortress that even the mongols failed to conquer in the thirteenth century new mothers that. that was when the mungo lama encountered the so-called liquid fire which the defenders of would douse their enemies heads with it took scientists a couple of centuries to figure out that it was simply burning oil. moving in here we can see the openings that were used to pour boiled down the wall. then the

entire wall would be engulfed in flames and it would be impossible to climb out of . old black who is considered a cultural treasure and is protected by unesco. when night falls the look of the city changes dramatically it's cafes and live music halls and can. use it come to says come head to enjoy azerbaijan's verio brand of jazz 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 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 it's their national music styles of. sayings that day was brought to back to when he was a child twenty years ago his family fled from the atrocities of the nagorno-karabakh war. according to baquba records almost one million azerbaijanis were forced to flee back on domania. 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 song for a long time there was no question about who controlled the region the war between the two states over nagorno-karabakh started at the end of the nineteen eighties after most governments 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. lou. even though most refugees have managed to settle down they still hope to return home someday. how good it may be here. is then it's always better for a person to be where he was. i miss my homeland. despite the fact that twenty years

of i'm ready to return there right now. the new go no color back conflict was frozen in one nine hundred ninety four after the two sides signed a cease fire in the idea of came to our 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 and civil in a process of. the negotiations between azerbaijan and armenia 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 play the highway across some

mean yes been closed while traveling never iran is far too long expensive. the each 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 archaeologists say the republic's capital of the hit 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 gaydar of was born here there is a street a square and a museum and his on. a dollar a lier and his son little some more always together. also father was his advisor

your 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 family estate is situated one of the most sacred places. it is even mentioned in the qur'an thousands of pilgrims from many countries come here to pray. for. people visit this shoreline they want to feel close to. their wishes here and ask god to

make them come true. the keeper of the old city is coming from up to north. who has made a number of important discoveries. through some good we heard you found some new things can you show them to us we are always finding new families. is conducting an excavation in the ancient city of. the city used to be the capital of coke. a state that emerged on territory in the fourth century b.c. . this is a very old site who was this man this man was a citizen of. did we know he was a christian as he is buried in accordance with christian rights could i say this man is my ancestor you know yes absolutely. artifacts found in god could be

similar to those in the ancient back who fortress archaeologists ashore that people have lived here since the bronze age. ancient people living on the terra tree 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 slopers covered the tunnel flames it is not only land that burns and i suppose 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. 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 fama l.d.s. i have 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 set standards. to growing in the south of us by jan 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 tonnage sensual oils and caffeine. but the committee growing

process requires a lot of effort including irrigation and fertilizers it's an industrial growing 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. 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 gov lusterless. the village of sorry 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 teeth 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 bird is grandmother of the family she is passing on her knowledge of carpets to her grandchildren and their children when averse 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 big enough. how to see a grandmother. by journey carpets are different from all

other kinds of carpets in color they are produced differently to. 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. threading the needle here. in the war what did i do it right at the end of the needle and to cool it down. noah days citizens of azerbaijan's capital enjoy walking by the city seafront. one side you can see the old fortress from the other oil platforms in the cusp you see. here the past and the present have merged

together fluently.

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