good have you with us this is our life here in moscow top stories now this president inventive pledges the opposition will have more of a say in the new duma and says again that all claims of electoral violations will be investigated he made the comments as he met with leaders of the parties who won seats in russia's know house of parliament to december the full. sanctions on syria one sided pressure will not work russia's foreign minister condemns the west for ignoring atrocities committed by opposition groups several of said the gangs want to create a humanitarian catastrophe and pave the way for foreign intervention in the country

. a deadly attack in belgium a man for his hand grenades and opens fire in crowds in the city of getting at least three and injuring dozens more officials say the attacker who died in the incident had served time in jail and was on his way for police questioning when he launched the assault. on a russian convoy carrying humanitarian aid for kosovo is stuck at the border after being blocked by police from moving further into northern kosova the aid includes essential supplies for the locals who remain isolated after several disputed checkpoints were seized by nato backed kosovan police those are the headlines for you here and. we follow the story of another former soviet state as a by john to see how the country has developed since the collapse of the u.s.s.r. that's in our special report next now with more news for you in half an hour from now. 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 cash in 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 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 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. to you. and me do. you know that we had an underwater city there's. no engineers but. they found ancient rocks that. l. dug a similar a new joe mouth and now two of the most well known people in azerbaijan know that it is a bit 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 taking pictures with the. actual issues 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 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. present across the planet before simple waving the azerbaijani flag from their car sunroofs it was marvelous. so happy there's a legend was there legend has made its mark. that. the republic of us a by john is located on the southwestern shore of the caspian sea. does russia and georgia to the north to the west and to the south it separates true the u.s.s.r. in ninety ninety one before the break up there was an ethnic conflict. one of the most tragic events in azerbaijan history was when troops were deployed in the capital back in 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 territory 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 a laugh a dear brother. was among the first victims. after they launched a flare the tanks came in and started firing. i noticed that ilham was not by my side and. he went down to the square to meet the tanks roky he raised his arms up and said but don't fire go 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 are family photos. for these and this is my brother and theories are at their wedding at the beginning of. it's when i was putting the ring on her finger calls. everyone who died in back in ninety ninety is buried at the city's alley of heroes . 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 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 are 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 who 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 custom 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 advice younes 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 door 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 you as a result we have great prospects of 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 men the. 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 this time on a belt and pianos 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 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. if you're here to. hear the word us about on your automatic i think 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.

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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 sieges. yet the. wall was a record in the twelfth century by shocks aton the first the law to fortify the city the inner city book remained an impregnable fortress that even the mongols failed to conquer in the thirteenth century get. 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 its thing up here we can see the openings that were used to poor boil down the wall. with you 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 night falls 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 eastern 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 it puts you in a certain mood and of folks many colors through that will 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. 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 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 commissioned 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. you

know. 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 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 movie all 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. there are heaps of an autonomous republic is located in the southern part of the trans caucasus it is a landlocked azerbaijan a 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 republic's capital of the hay 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 we're always together. for 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 a 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. the city used to be the capital of caucasian albania a state that emerged on as

a territory in the fourth century b.c. . 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 the could i say this man is my ancestor are you know yes absolutely. artifacts found in god could be similar to those in the ancient back who fortress archaeologists assure the 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 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. the 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 yes 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 essential oils and caffeine. but the community 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 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 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 tea party 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. the minute version is grandmother of the family she is passing on her knowledge of carpets to her grandchildren and their children in 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 beginner. how to see a grandmother. by johnny carpets are different from all other kinds of carpets and color 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. threaded the needle here. in the wall did i do it right the end of the needle and you pull it down.

no a 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 and caspian sea. here the past on the present have merged together fluidly.

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