welcome back you're watching our day reminder of the top stories fresh occupy protests layer right across the u.s. as disgruntled activists target boards and trade hubs in an effort to hamper financial giant goldman sachs as police continue a relentless breakdown on the movement's activities. taking the plunge again russia's third richest man announces his second attempt to enter politics by running for president. as broad obama celebrates the end of the iraq occupation iraq is pointed to the devastated infrastructure and unstable government american

troops are leaving behind. while next year an r.c. will follow the story of former soviet state as ever john to see how the country has developed since the collapse of the soviet union. 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 mattias 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 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. to. 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. they did it just the. completely self-taught artists managed to exceed all expectations by taking first price for the euro vision song contest. lately eldar have trouble avoiding fun seeking more to graphs or taking pictures with a. solution is good thank you we have some guests murong there are a nice. 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 meet my. friends universal when it was new question people were waving the azerbaijani flying from their car sunroofs if it was marvelous. being there is a genuine legend has made its mark. that. the republic of us a by john is located on the southwestern shore of the caspian sea as a vision board is russia and georgia to the north on meaning to the west and 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. 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 from a laugh a dear brother. was among the first victims. after they launched a flare the tanks came in and started firing. 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 fire them he said look the means 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 threes are at their wedding. it's when i was putting the ring on her finger called 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. my son who dreams remains unfulfilled. every year on the last day of june as a by johnny's commemorate the dead couple. i asked him to leave both who was elected the first president of independent azerbaijan route 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 those are your 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 belarus 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 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 azerbaijan and the european consumers of the other end to buy caspian oil. this is the b.d.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 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 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 by johns oil fields in the caspian sea nowadays azerbaijan is number one in the commonwealth of independent states in terms of per capita best. the feel if it was for the door for work the government is doing all it can these days to foil

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 the commander's income. solving income like that. and what they can do. to put. forward. this is. 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 are 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 belt and 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 string is different as the other the length the diameter 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 automatic automatically will think it's 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. de france staying at three shifts and this is project an upright of healthy eating . we need to test these foods for times is the allergenicity immune response lower nutrition and for environmental contamination don't you feel like a lab rat some consider the experiment in human treatment very highly significant differences between the g.m.

affair that they both at the don't yet but they weren't treated so well themselves one question means one career you ask one question you get the answer and you might or might not be able to publish it but that's the end of your career.

downtown back in 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 and fortifications that have enjoyed her sieges. yet the. venus wall was erected in the twelfth century by shocks aton the first who did a lot to fortify the city the inner city book who remained an impregnable fortress that even the monk will spill to conquer in the thirteenth century get. that was when the mungo lama encountered the so-called liquid fire which the defenders of back were doused their enemies heads with it took scientists

a couple of centuries to figure out that it was simply burning oil. moving it is the new here we can see the openings that we're used to poor boiled down the wallets with you then the entire wall would be engulfed in flames and it would be impossible to climb out of the. old black who is considered a cultural treasure and is protected by unesco. when night falls the look of the city changes dramatically as cafes and live music halls open. music come says come head to enjoy azerbaijan's very own brand of jazz the music combines eastern tunes with elements of the western musical tradition. jazz evolved enough by john in the one nine hundred thirty s.

it was prohibited to in the soviet times but today it is hugely popular once more. on government it brings harmony 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 just their own it's their national music styles of. burroughs sainz a 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 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 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 to you by. even the 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 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 movie all in a bunch of. 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. for 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 turkey and around the republic's population amounts to four hundred thousand people the republic is actively trading with iran and turkey archaeologists say the the republic's capital of the hitcher van 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. 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. a lot 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 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. 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 burial 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 know yes absolutely. artifacts found in go 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 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 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. 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 fama. 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 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 community growing process requires a lot of effort including irrigation and fertilizers it's an industrial problem yana good and the final product depends on how well it has being taken care of. after they're 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 believes. 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 tea party 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. the minute version 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 big enough to. have a seat grandmother. home by journey carpets are different from all other kinds of carpets and 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. through the needle here. in the wall did i do it right the end of the needle and to cool it down. noah days 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.

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