we've brought in video for your media project c.d.o. gogarty dot com. welcome back this is breaking news the saw an offshore drilling rig with seventy six people on board has overturned in the sea overhauls and the russian far east a major at sea and suppressed cooperation is on the way but it's not yet know how many may have survived the design star. also tunisia the fast and about service revolution it was a monument to the none who set himself alight and whose deaths unleashed a protest movement that gave birth to the arab spring that's going to run the country are frustrated at a lot of trying says they are prizing and still hope for a real reforms. no violence has been kazakhstan with twelve now

dead forming a new unrest in the western part of the country protests and a railway station in support of any demonstrations in an oil town that began friday . the trial that sent to a new york court rules that iran provided material support to unchain death of the nine eleven attacks in america critics however say tehran is not guilty out of the voted differently a pretext to them and i as iran and to wage war. as the headlines up next to follow the story of another former soviet state as a show on to see how the country has developed since the collapse of the us a song that's in our special report. 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 with most own soil before exploding into flames. it's a miracle of nature there's nothing like it anywhere in the world national 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 an s. goes world heritage list oh resist the aura of this place is so amazing it's so easy to spend hours here just breathing us 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. say. you. and me do. you know that we had an underwater city there's. no engineers but. they found ancient rocks that. as dug a sim off a name. and now two of the most well known people in azerbaijan know there is a bit just the. completely self-taught artists managed to exceed all expectations by taking first price but the euro vision song contest hands.

up. lately eldar have trouble avoiding fun seeking more to graphs taking pictures with the. desolations good 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 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 planet before female were waving the isolation i mean flying from their car sunroofs it was marvelous.

the message on their mission has made its mark. that. the republican is located on the southwestern shore of the caspian sea. borders russia and georgia to the north to the west and to the self it separates true the u.s.s.r. 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. 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 almost will pass a budget 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. the. 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 find them he said a lot and these people are and 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. it's when i 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. a son who dreams remained unfulfilled. every year on the last day of june as a boy johnny's commemorate the dead couple. yes to leave 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 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 belarus in kazakhstan. we didn't have our own gold or foreign reserves or even a currency of our own for we had absolutely nothing. today as a buy 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 i am. 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 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 ridge on with the capacity of one point two million barrels a day. it 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 amaka 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. has lived and worked in azerbaijan for twenty years he has witnessed all the changes both day as it has gone through. as really the commander's income. income like.

what the. to put. forth. in business. 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 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 this 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 a piano we have two hundred thirty strings more or less. every string is different as the other the length via 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 are here to hurt her you know the word to us about on the other method automatically will think you know this because as my grandmother used to say always if you say in this case as a baton they have to say be either and that's a bellman piano. downtown

back of 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 erected in the twelfth century by shocks aton the first to fortify the city inner city but remained an impregnable fortress that even the mongols failed to conquer in the thirteenth century. that was when the monk counted 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 poor oil down the wall. in 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 its cafes and live music halls and can. use it thomas says come head to enjoy as a buzz shands various brand of jazz music combines eastern tunes with elements of the western musical tradition. jazz of old enough 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 the money it brings harmonies on it puts you in a certain mood it under 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. buckaroos sainz a day was brought to back to 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 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 to control the region the war between the two states over nagorno-karabakh started at the end of the nineteen eighties after most companies 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 the new homes. i remember the time when we arrived here we lived in her condition 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 karabakh conflict was frozen in one nine hundred ninety four after the two sides signed a cease fire in the idea of 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 will 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 an enclave 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 archaeologists say the republic's capital of nature 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 gaydar of was born here there is a street a square and a museum and his own. that are near a dollar a lyric his son little some more always together. also father was his advisor their 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 coffee. it is even mentioned in the qur'an thousands of pilgrims from many countries come

here to pray. for. people visit this shrine 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 the north. who has made a number of important discoveries. recently heard you found some new things new we can you show them to us we are always finding new things and it's. 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 burial site who was this man this man was a citizen of all. we know he was a christian as he is buried in accordance with christian rights say this man is my ancestor you know yes absolutely. artifacts found in go could be similar to those in the ancient back to 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 land that 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. 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 fama l.d.s. idea 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 same standards. the 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. growing process requires a lot of aircraft 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 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. 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 god bless the little. village of sorry on the outskirts of baquba the family of famous carpet weaver. 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 the. it gives you energy and puts you in a good mood. in a virgo 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 big enough. how to see it grandmother. as you buy johnny carpets are different from all other kinds of carpets and color they are produced differently too. 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 in the cusp you see. here the past on the present have merged together fluently.

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