amazon web services will be stepping up to run the company let's get more on this and bring in larry magid is a technology analyst and the c.e.o. of the connect safely website and joins us via skype from palo alto in california laurie great to have you back on the program alison is one of the most successful companies in the world so why is baseball stepping aside now how significant is the timing of his departure. well what he said in a letter to amazon employees that he's going to stay with the company as executive chairman but he wants to pursue other things including helping amazon launch new products so being a bit of a visionary starting up new projects also the washington post which he own he also owns a company that getting competing in the space race privatization of space so he has a lot of interests and i think he wants to be free to pursue the interests while at the same time keeping its hand in amazon yeah i'm larry in this comes as a muslim post its biggest earnings report saying it made its 1st 100000000000 dollars and of course i mean these are the watering figures larry ar

mentioned his other interests including space and journalism and who knows what else to get into larry magid always good to get your thoughts larry thank you thank you. more than 30 homes have been destroyed by a bushfire in western australia firefighters are battling the blaze on the outskirts of the city of perth but strong winds are hampering efforts to contain it hundreds have been forced to evacuate the area one firefighter is recovering in hospital from smoke inhalation but there's been no reports of serious injuries. so if a quick check of the headlines here al-jazeera there been public displays of anger against the military coup in manama. people banging pots the home the columns to show their anger against the generals who overthrew the civilian leader and son cinci and seized power so she has been placed under house arrest ali fall has more now from young gone. gto one of the m.l.t. strokes cousins has said on facebook that she is in good health and she is known to be in her house compound in aikido she's reportedly been seen by a neighbor walking around the grounds which she appar

for the 1st time and the jesse head of amazon web services will be stepping up to run a company larry magid is a technology analyst i'm the c.e.o. of the connect safely website he tells us what lies ahead for his successor. well he's been with the company since almost the beginning and he currently runs amazon web services which is a very profitable division of the company and its challenges are going to be the same challenges that basis would have had a regulator is around the world labor disputes there's some people want to unionize the employee a call for better wages and better working conditions but i think the regulation issue is something that they're having to contend with and also the fact that amazon as a growth figure and more powerful isn't quite as well loved as it once was so it's just under a lot of scrutiny both you could say and regulators and of course there's always competition in the u.s. wal-mart and major retailer is also a major competitor of amazon now in honduras politicians have made it they only impossible to ever legalize abortion by changing the constitutional r