RT News - September 4 2022 (09:00 MSK)

Fighting intensifies near the Russian-held Zaporozhye power plant in southeastern Ukraine, despite the UN's nuclear safety watchdog, the IAEA, visiting the site. Russia's military says it has repelled several Ukrainian attempts to storm the facility in recent days. RT speaks to captive Azov Battalion soldiers who, in July, survived the shelling of their detention facility in the village of Yelenovka by Ukrainian troops. The final leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, has died this week, aged 91, in Moscow's Central Hospital after a prolonged illness. We will be looking through his historic legacy, during this edition of The Weekly. More than 70,000 people take to the streets of Prague protesting soaring energy prices, slamming the government for failing to tackle skyrocketing inflation.