RT News - May 05, 2019 (12:00 MSK)

President Nicolas Maduro says he quelled an attempted coup by Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido who, along with his US backers, denies plotting a military overthrow. Our guests debate what really happened. The US attorney General is grilled in the Senate over his handling of the Mueller report but refuses to subject himself to further questions, with Democrats now calling William Barr a coward and mulling charges of contempt of Congress. A new escalation at the Israel-Gaza border which saw an exchange of rocket fire, leaving several people dead.