RT News - August 28, 2019 (17:00 MSK)

A bold but risky move from the British Prime Minister as Boris Johnson asks the Queen to shut down parliament until mid-October in an attempt to lock in the UK's exit from the European Union. Russian journalist Kirill Vyshinsky is released from pre-trial detention. He spent a year in a Ukrainian jail waiting to face charges of treason. In a first-of-its-kind ruling, a US federal court orders the state of Idaho to pay for gender reassignment surgery for an inmate convicted of child sex abuse. We get reaction to the ruling.