i am adrian finighan. presidential contender assassinated in broad daylight.nando villavicencio is the third candidate to be killed in a matter of weeks and ecuador. he campaigned on anticorruption platform, accusing government officials of having links to organized crime. ecuador is struggling with rising gang violence and trafficking. the president declared a state of emergency and deploy the army but will it be enough? have criminals taken control of politics and was the shooting a message for other politicians? we will discuss this in a moment but first a report from a reporter. >> this is fernando villavicencio speaking out against organized crime in ecuador. moments later, the 59-year-old presidential candidate was shot and killed. [gunshots] widespread outreach followed, along with demands for justice. >> [speaking spanish] translator: the candidates and government must make this a priority. i still cannot believe it. i cannot accept it. >> like many candidates, he promised to fight corruption but unlike his rivals, he publicly accused the government of

i'm adrian finighan. he has had three communal indictments already this year.ow donald trump has a fourth, this time charged in georgia with racketeering and conspiring to overturn his 2020 election defeat to joe biden. previous charges have done little to dim the apparent popularity of the former u.s. president. he is already the hot favorite to win the republican nomination to run for the white house next year. he says the latest charges are part of a politically motivated witchhunt. his opponents say his crimes go to the heart of u.s. democracy which he has tried to undermine. the decision to charge him and aides came after a two-year inquiry in fulton county, georgia. >> based on information developed by that investigation, a fulton county grand jury returned a true bill of environment. charging 19 individuals with violations of georgia law arising from a criminal conspiracy to overturn the results of the 2020 president xi -- presidential election in the state. adrian: this is trump's fourth this year and perhaps the most serious. the former president and 1

i'm adrian finighan.iger's new military rulers are in a standoff with the west and some of their neighbors, refusing to hand back power to the man they ousted. the country's borders are closed but president mohamed bazoum has been in contact with the outside world. speaking to u.s. secretary of state antony blinken, among others. changed times from only a few months ago, when blinken dropped by to visit niger, seen as an important u.s. ally in west africa, but one whose allegiance is now uncertain. france has retained a military force in its former colony, but tens of thousands of supporters of the coup leaders rallied in the capital to protest against the french presence. they want foreign troops gone, but accuse france of exploiting niger's wealth of natural resources. we will assess the implications of the crisis with our guests in just a few moments, but first let's talk to our correspondent in neighboring nigeria, ahmed idris. ahmed, how much support does this coup have within niger, and outside the

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i'm adrian finighan.ald trump's legal problems are piling up fast with yet another indictment, this time from events after the election he loved to joe biden three years ago. trump remains the hot favorite within the republican party to win the nomination to run again for president next year. but so far, the more charges he faces, the louder his claims of persecution resonate with his support based. what they think will determine the outcome of the election and whether or not trump makes it back into the white house. before we talk to our guests, let's take a closer look at what the latest charges are. he is accused of a conspiracy to defraud the united states. this stems from what prosecutors say is a plot to overturn the election results on false pretenses along with six co-conspirators. trump is also charged with two counts of conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, related to interfering with congress, confirming victory for joe biden. the fourth count is conspiracy against citizen rights. that