iran to the south, with the caspian sea on one side, and georgia and armenia on the other. i want to explore the many faces of azerbaijan, both old and new, through its people, culture and food to find out more about this diverse and complex country. baku is a swing! it s a jazz! fish, yeah! my favourite i love fish. nazrin, hi. and, there are horses! yeah. i didn t know we re going to have horses. i m also here to find out why the likes of you and me, potential tourists, are seen as the bright new hope as an alternative to black gold. so, welcome to azerbaijan. when you look at the guidebook, or on travel websites, or in fact almost anything about azerbaijan, they all start by telling you the same thing azerbaijan is the land of fire! huge natural gas and oil deposits are so close to the surface that they cause these natural fires to spring out of the ground. fires which burned continuously for over 4,000 years were once common across azerbaijan, but this is now the last
i am grateful that my father never really knew the extent of how he was duped. he auctions i first heard about the zaks collection from konstantin akinsha and andrei vassiliev. from the very beginning, the story seemed hard to believe. we wanted to understand how paintings of such dubious origin could be sold as genuine works, and how did they end up on the walls of museums all around the world? one painting from the zaks collection unexpectedly appeared in a scene from christopher nolan s oppenheimer. a few months later, the same painting turned up in another film, the wonderful story of henry sugar by wes anderson. i m beatrice gimpel and i m swiss and i m partly french, through marriage, but i ve lived here in london in the uk for 49 years 49 very happy years. my parents, especially my father, were very interested in paintings and sculpture and from the mid late 60s, early 70s on, he bought extensively anything he liked. and he did a lot of his homework inviting, ta
israeli attacks. last night, tens of thousands of israelis took to the streets of tel aviv to rally against the government and demand a deal to release the hostages. around 129 remain unaccounted for after being taken by hamas, which the uk government regards as a terrorist organisation. it comes after the body of elad katzir, one of the hostages, was brought back to israel by the country s armed forces. delegations from both hamas and israel are in cairo to try to agree a ceasefire. as the conflict between the two sides reaches a grim milestone, our middle east correspondent, yolande knell, assesses the situation so far. the seventh of october attacks blindsided israel. thousands of hamas gunmen breaking out of gaza. 0n thousands of hamas gunmen breaking out of gaza. on a murderous rampage, they killed hundreds of people and kidnapped 250 more. she they killed hundreds of people and kidnapped 250 more. they killed hundreds of people and kidnapped 250 more. she called me at
with nine climate zones. it borders russia to the north, iran to the south, with the caspian sea on one side, and georgia and armenia on the other. i want to explore the many faces of azerbaijan, both old and new, through its people, culture and food to find out more about this diverse and complex country. baku is a swing! it s a jazz! fish, yeah! my favourite i love fish. nazrin, hi. and, there are horses! yeah. i didn t know we re going to have horses. i m also here to find out why the likes of you and me, potential tourists, are seen as the bright new hope as an alternative to black gold. so, welcome to azerbaijan. when you look at the guidebook, or on travel websites, or in fact almost anything about azerbaijan, they all start by telling you the same thing azerbaijan is the land of fire! huge natural gas and oil deposits are so close to the surface that they cause these natural fires to spring out of the ground. fires which burned continuously for over 4,000 years wer
with the caspian sea on one side, and georgia and armenia on the other. i want to explore the many faces of azerbaijan, both old and new, through its people, culture and food to find out more about this diverse and complex country. baku is a swing! it s a jazz! fish, yeah! my favourite i love fish. nazrin, hi. and, there are horses! yeah. i didn t know we re going to have horses. i m also here to find out why the likes of you and me, potential tourists, are seen as the bright new hope as an alternative to black gold. so, welcome to azerbaijan. when you look at the guidebook, or on travel websites, or in fact almost anything about azerbaijan, they all start by telling you the same thing azerbaijan is the land of fire! huge natural gas and oil deposits are so close to the surface that they cause these natural fires to spring out of the ground. fires which burned continuously for over 4,000 years were once common across azerbaijan, but this is now the last. right up here, it