RT News - May 02, 2019 (17:00 MSK)

Julian Assange's defense team claims the fight for the whistleblower's fate has just begun - as a British court holds a first meeting over whether to extradite the Wikileaks co-founder to the US. William Barr refuses to subject himself to more scrutiny over his handling of the Mueller report into alleged Trump-Russia collusion. Democrats accuse the US attorney general of running scared and call for his head for failing to show. A large anti-government protest rocks the Venezuelan capital - a day after what appears to have been a failed coup - that, as opposition leader Juan Guaido and his US backers deny trying to stage a military overthrow. We debate what's really happening in the country.