this is the w.'s live from blackmail politics in the world so richest man it's a heavy brewer's amazon boss jeff bezos accuses american tabloid the national enquirer of blackmail he says the paper threatened to publish your enforcers of him but he did do. so on the program. just disaster strikes one of brazil's first famous for such a. terrific. rio de janeiro's flamengo at least ten times to death.

row taking on thailand's military princess. overturns complexion and announcing she will stand for prime minister but the king says the move is unconstitutional. i'm phil girl welcome to the program i'm a zone boss jeff bezos has accused the national enquirer newspaper of blackmail he says the u.s. capitol she threatened to publish intimate photos of him unless he did as he was told inquirer says it will investigate the claims but there are also political overtones mr bezos of the washington post which is often criticized president trump the national enquirer zona meanwhile is a fervent trump supporter. to prove a tabloid scandal or a politically motivated attack jeff bezos has accused the publisher link to

president donald trump of blackmail and a post published on the website media. last month after the amazon c.e.o. and his wife announced that divorce the national enquirer published intimate messages revealing an extramarital affair eager to know how the paper came to possess these messages has also hired private investigators he suspected it was driven by dirty politics his suspicions grew stronger when he says the national enquirer parent company am i threatened to publish photos of him if you didn't make a public statement saying its previous coverage of him was not politically motivated well that got my attention but not in the way the likely any passionate. i could cause me takes a backseat because there's a much more important matter involved here if in my position i can't stand up to this kind of extortion how many people can. just his ownership of the

washington post has made him the enemy of powerful people including the saudis and the us president trump relies on favorable coverage from am i even admitted to withholding damaging information about trump to help him win the twenty sixteen election. it's boss david peca is a close associate of trump. am i says it has acted lawfully in its reporting on bezos but if investigations find otherwise the media company could be in trouble some of. the washington post has published several books about the ministration and joins us from the u.s. capitol welcome to d w is your paper working with your bosses investigators on this story oh goodness no. it's it may be hard to imagine but we have very

little in the way of cooperation from the owner of the post who is also the owner of amazon and other enterprises but in general he's always been extremely tight in the stick to news coverage of his operations this was an unusual case in which they did want to get their story out and they did want to put it in touch with one of their investigators about how and why the national enquirer went after jeff bezos his love life so what hossa post found out about how the national enquirer got hold of jeff bezos as personal communications. well there are two conflicting story lines here one is the one from investigator who says that this was a politically motivated hit job and that the brother of the girlfriend in this case a man that michael sanchez was leading suspect someone who they believe leaked the intimate texts and information about the relationship to the national enquirer whether he did that for the purpose of personal profit or for because of his

connections to some of the important people around president trump is unclear the alternative theory here the one that michael sanchez the purported leaker proposes is that this was a way for businesses security man to essentially cover up for the fact that he had failed in his mission to keep the affair between bezos and lauren sanchez secret ok so somebody finds out about this affair leaks it's a national enquirer the national enquirer if we're to believe the story that jeff bezos tells then says to him do as we say oh we would leak these these embarrassing revelations so why would they act in that way. why would the national enquirer act in that way the national choir is in a very precarious position in addition to the fact that they are in a tremendous amount of debt their top two executives that are

a publisher and the head of their editorial department have made an agreement with federal prosecutors who are looking into the twenty sixteen presidential campaign and that agreement was that they would not be prosecuted prosecuted inquiries that can not be prosecuted if they agreed to stop doing the kinds of things they were doing to protect i will trump the national choir was the gossip magazine that had protected trump from allegations by a number of women that they had had sexual relationships with him and what the enquirer did was they would buy the story of those women pay those women a certain fee and in exchange and then the national car would not publish the story but would rather bury it kill it would never see the light of day and that practice known as catch and kill was what got the enquirer's bosses in trouble and they made a deal with the prosecutors that they would cooperate with prosecutors that they would refrain from that kind of activity now their protection from prosecution is in jeopardy because of their role if any in this to do with jeff bezos and that's

why the national enquirer is sort of backing off today and saying well we'll take another look at this we'll see if anything was done wrong so. at least gotten some concession from the national enquirer that they at least need to look at their own ways jeff bezos says in the face the. full reason still to be better understood the saudi. vacillation seems to have hit a particularly sensitive nerve why do you think that might be a. well the big version of this is one that they were putting out there as sort of sort of circumstantial evidence but there's really no hard evidence for it they. are things is that the national enquirer was helped along the way by the saudi government that the enquirer had been putting out a magazine that was touting the many splendors of the new saudi regime and that in exchange the saudis may have played a role in helping the national enquirer with its debt but the investigators really

showed no evidence for this other than a number of. coincidences of timing and. if this were true it would be highly significant because obviously the president has been sympathetic to the saudis in their explanation of the death of. the washington post global affairs columnist who was killed by the saudis. thank you for joining us. at the washington post. ten people have died in a fire. football club flamengo in brazil the blaze broke out before dawn friday at a training facility at the club officials say some of the victims were teenagers from the flamenco youth team was sleeping in the sand at the time. friends and family of those killed or injured are in shock some of them are to find their

relatives alive while others wait anxiously for news outside the training ground of the flamingo soccer club. the blaze broke out just before dawn and this accommodation block firefighters were called in just after five am local time but for at least ten people help came to late. obviously we're all devastated. this is certainly the biggest tragedy this club has seen in the past one hundred twenty three years the beech trees. flamingo is one of brazil's biggest and best known clubs internationally its most prominent former players include. as well as eighteen year old finishes jr who played for flamengo before joining spain's riyadh madrid last year. he tweeted just remembering the nights and days i spent at the training grounds sends shivers down my spine i still can't believe it i pray for all of them may god bless each of their families. because of the places being

investigated but according to local media the fire started in the air conditioning system in one of the rooms. whatever the cost it brought a sudden end to the victims dreams of becoming professional footballers. which are some of the other stories making news around the world as well as president to my door has vowed not to vote in what he called a fake humanitarian aid from the united states was evidence when it was not a nation of baghdad there it was currently held up at the border with colombia and this was army has been ordered to has been ordered to stop it entering the country . on. german chancellor angela merkel has confirmed that there has reached a compromise with paris have a controversial a gas pipeline project north stream to supply russian gas directly to germany objections from paris have threatened to divide the project. thailand's king has

issued a decree ordering that no member of the royal family should be involved in politics the move seems to quash a bit by his sister princess who bore the toddler to run for prime minister in next month's elections she said she would come play for a party loyal to the country's ousted former prime minister touchin should a lot of things to create said what he says to standard c. was inappropriate and unconstitutional. well john the standard model has were written widely on thai politics and the money joins us from edinburgh in the united kingdom welcome to d w so the thai king says that the princess's move is inappropriate and unconstitutional so does that put an end to have tended to say it seems to do it was a day of extraordinary drama in thailand because in the morning it was appeared that by standing for a possible party allied to the former appropriate texan chanelle what the palace was brokering

a kind of political settlement both end for almost fifteen years of peaceful struggle in thailand between the red faction and the yellow faction instead of the king in the evening came out to clear as you mentioned it's unconstitutional for her to meddle in politics or to stand in the election so that leaves us not just back at square one it leaves us the blue square one because the more he supposed to be a unifying force in thai politics but today's events of the left the country even more polarized than ever and this happens even though the princess was defectively demoted when she married this american she was stripped of all have won titles. that's correct way back in one nine hundred seventy two she married american and spent twenty six years living as a suburban housewife in san diego she even took an american name julie jensen she gave all her royal titles but she's now back in thailand in the fact is that even though she's formally written straight titles she's clearly a senior member of the royal family and she's accorded royal status in the media and by the palace and so on so it was dramatic that she announced her candidacy it

was kind of unprecedented in thai politics and then the korean president it was the king coming out with such a striking statement telling her to basically country that he was not going to allow it so does her party now have to seek another candidate. well it's too late the nominations are in so there can be no you candidates but beyond that it's not even clear where this leaves the election the election is jew on march twenty fourth and today's events really thrown into chaos there's a lot of resentment and anger amongst many sections of the type population after the drama today so it's not clear whether the party she was going to be receptive representing could still continue. through the whole election white opened for viagra is an interesting i'm adamant of this because the time royalty is so revered that. well traditionally the tire altie have been revealed and it's illegal to criticize them publicly you can end up in jail but it's important to note that the

current king is far less popular in revered than his father who died and twenty sixteen the current king is actually more fierce than a lot and he's a very mercurial and controversial character and his behavior today has really reinforced the views that many thais have of him that you know that they don't believe he's volatile they don't believe he can be a unifying water for the country so we're thailand's heading closer into political chaos and it's not clear what the end game will be it's very interesting i had remarkable thank you so much thank you. you're watching b.w. news live from baghdad so what would you do if your government gave you five hundred sixty euros a month no strings attached we reveal the results of a finland's basic income experiment so you can bet as they will have that story on the day the rest of the days of business news in just about world's news continues around the clock on our web site of course that's the news dot com have

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