22 May 2023

South America correspondent Katy Watson

From Nine To Noon, 9:45 am on 22 May 2023

South America correspondent Katy Watson joins Kathryn to talk about the instability in Ecuador, where leader Guillermo Lasso has dissolved the National Assembly just a day after defending himself in an impeachment hearing over alleged embezzlement. The former head of Brazil's indigenous protection agency has been indicted over the murder of British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira. Brazil's president Lula is under fire for his views on Ukraine and there's  mystery over the whereabouts of four children missing from a plane crash.

Katy Watson is a BBC correspondent based in Sao Paulo.

A handout picture released by the Colombian army shows a soldier with a dog checking a pair of scissors found in the forest in a rural area of the municipality of Solano, department of Caqueta, Colombia, on May 17, 2023. More than 100 soldiers with sniffer dogs are following the "trail" of four missing children in the Colombian Amazon after a small plane crash that killed three adults, the military said Wednesday. (Photo by Handout / Colombian army / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / COLOMBIAN ARMY " - NO MARKETING - NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS

A pair of scissors was found in the jungle where four children are missing following a plane crash.  Photo: AFP / Supplied