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 s really, really pretty hot right up to your face you can really sense it. the whole of my body is really, really hot. this is incredible! it s. ..beautiful and bewitching at the same time. 2,500 years ago, these fires enticed zoroastrian priests from persia, who considered them a divine miracle. no wonder people for thousands of years have pretty well worshipped at this, certainly felt spiritual about it. i do it s overwhelming. but, halfway through the 19th century, azerbaijan s natural wonders attracted a differ
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growing, too. 16 to 3a year olds are now as likely to have a health issue affecting work as a middle aged person was a decade ago. and it cost hundreds of millions of pounds to set up formula 1 in vegas but the first practice was cancelled afterjust nine minutes when carlos sainz hit a loose manhole cover. the second session was delayed and fan areas closed. let s hope the rest of the weekend is smoother! and time now for 10 seconds of a car park cat. benjy gets reported missing many times a day when people find him wandering round his local shop in south shields but i reckon he sjust having a fun time seeing all the different sights of aldi car park. i mean, can you blame him? you re all caught up now. see you later. voiceover: this is bbc news. we ll have the headlines and all the main news stories for you at the top of the hour, which is straight after this programme. this is arguably one of the most important rivers in the world. the mekong sustains tens of millions of l
Including one israeli. Security forces have sealed off the embassy which is in an affluent part of amman. The israeli authorities are not commenting on the incident, and for the moment have imposed reporting restrictions. Our middle east editor alan johnson has more. The israelis are saying nothing about whatever has gone on at the embassy in demand. In fact they have imposed restrictions on reporting. What little we know has come from jordanian sources. They say there is, as you said, one local person, a jordanian man, killed in a Shooting Incident will stop an israeli was wounded. The area around the embassy is now a subject of a major security operation. We have no idea exactly what motivated this attack. What sparked this. But in the absence of more information, theres bound to be speculation in the region and beyond. That this incident was linked to the current tensions in jerusalem, and as you know, there are some very strong jerusalem, and as you know, there are some very strong