RT News - May 27 2021 (12:00 MSK)

The British Prime Minister's on the ropes after his former chief advisor makes a series of shock revelations about Boris Johnson's handling of the pandemic. China dismisses as political hype, President Biden's new probe into the origins of Covid. The lab leak theory is now gaining traction in the media, despite outlets rejecting it when the Trump administration made the same claims. Amid surging crime rates top US state officials are hurriedly rethinking plans to defund police.