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Venezuela's Maduro pleads not guilty to drug charges

Maduro and his wife were seized from their Caracas compound on Saturday and flown to the US.

The Venezuelan leader Nicol谩s Maduro pleads not guilty in New York to drug trafficking and other charges while Delcy Rodr铆guez has been sworn in as Venezuela鈥檚 interim president. Can she command the support of regime insiders as well as Washington?

Also on the programme: we'll hear how ordinary Venezuelans are responding to the upheaval; and ask a Republican member of congress about President Trump's astonishing use of raw American power and the diplomatic conundrum for the US allies.

(Photo: A screen grab taken from a handout video screenshot made available by Venezuela's state television VTV shows Venezuelan Executive Vice President Delcy Rodriguez being sworn in as acting president of the country in Caracas, Venezuela. Credit: EPA/Shutterstock)

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