RT News - July 06 2021 (17:00 MSK)

Boris Johnson unveils plans to scrap almost all Covid restrictions in England despite infections rising. Meanwhile, NHS frontline workers battling that case-surge celebrate its 73rd anniversary; but no much-anticipated pay-rise present for them though they did get a medal from the Queen. Disturbing scenes of self-harm in Belgium as migrants go to extremes in their fight for asylum. But authorities say they won't be blackmailed. Lebanon is just days away from a "social explosion". That's how the caretaker prime minister is describing the situation, as the country faces violence amid a financial crisis.