RT News - May 30 2021 (17:00 MSK)

China dismisses as political hype President Biden's probe into the origins of Covid. The lab leak theory is now gaining traction in the media which had rejected it when the Trump administration made the same claims. The isolation of a nation - Belarus faces a barrage of criticism and closed airspace from the EU. That's after a passenger jet was forced to make an emergency diversion to Minsk over a hoax bomb threat. But then an opposition activist on board was arrested. Cities in the US backtrack on their decisions to cut police funding after crime rates surge and the White House declares an epidemic of gun violence.