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Around the world. Im bianca nobilo. Im max foster joining you live from london. Just ahead on cnn newsroom. Americans deserve a competitive federal government that can pass a budget. Were pro keeping the government open. Translator ive decided to replace the Minister Of Defense of ukraine. The Ministry Needs New approaches and other formats of interaction in both the military and society as a whole. Its just really thick, dense mud. We dont expect this kind of rain. And the effect, nobodys ever seen this kind of effect in there ever. Live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. Its monday, september 4th, 9 00 a. M. Here in london, 4 00 a. M. In washington where u. S. Senators are set to come back from their august recess to try to broker a deal to avoid a government shut down on october 1. House of representatives dont come back in next week, but the clock is already ticking to get on the same page about the National Budget and keep vital federal agencies funded. President joe ben has three main goals in the coming months th he and House Speaker Kevin Mccarthy want the house to pass a shortterm deal to give lawmakers another time to pass a budget. The president wants the government to provide more money for fema for Natural Disaster as well as additional funding for ukraine. The biggest deal is the hardliners and pressuring the House Speaker to stick to strict guidelines. Heres what House Democrat has to say. This isnt about taking care of people or working for working people. Its just for working for donald trump. And many of them have said unless we defund the Special Counsel Investigations into donald trump, theyre going to shut down the federal government. What theyre looking to do is jettison the extreme hard line. Theres 20, 25 members. In so far as you let the tail wag the dog, the government wants to shut down. If he wants to step up and be a true member of the chamber to raise the debt limit then i think we can govern. Cnns Priscilla Alvarez has more details on negotiations in washington. Reporter as Congress Returns from recess this month, the white house is asking the government to pass a shortterm pending bill to to keep the government running and avoid a shutdown. Theyre also asking for key programs to provide assistance to millions of americans. Separately, the president is asking the federal government for requests to provide money to fema being asked to fund very expensive disasters across the country and whose funding are set to run dry by the end of this month, as well as funding for ukraine. House speaker Kevin Mccarthy has said that the fema funds will be replenished, but theres pushback about ukraine. Republican hardliners have asked for an Impeachment Inquiry into biden, action on border security, as well as cutting spending to precovid levels as part of passing any type of Spending Bill so that is likely to play out in congress in weeks to come. But all of this is a sprint to the anyone initial in september when the fiscal year ends, Priscilla Alvarez, cnn, traveling with the president. Age and Mental Health is getting attention 0 the campaign trail including republican hopefuls, candidate nikki haley is citing Mitch Mcconnell and argued for Mental Competency tests for politicians older than 75. Hes frozen and seemed daze only to recover days later. Hes 81 years old. But republicans say mcconnell is quite capable of deciding his own future. Mitch is sharp and he is shrewd. He understands what needs to be done. Ill leave it up to him as to how he wants to discuss that with the american public. But theres no doubt in my mind that hes perfectly capable of continuing on at this stage of the game. President biden ialso busy keeping his eye on the Perspective Opponent in e 2024 election and so far all signs are inng towards donald trump. A w ll from the Wall Street Journal shows if an election were held today the rrent and former presints would be evenly matched with votes. The same poll shows broad majorities of voters believe trump four indictments are politically motivated and without merit. The Wall Street Journal and cnn polling shows trump holds more than 50 of voters edging automatic opponent vivek ramaswamy. He was in New Hampshire over the weekend. New hampshire primary has picked the eventual republican nominee five out of seven times. Republican candidate desantis also floridas governor, of course, has been concerned with matters at home over the weekend. The state is still recovering from Hurricane Idalia Which battered florida last week. President biden and First Lady Jill Biden visited on saturday to seat damage for themselves. The president vowed to send whatever aid was needed. These crises are affecting more and more americans, and every american rightly expects fema to show up when they are needed to help in a disaster. So, im calling on the United States congress, democrats and republicans, to ensure the funding is there to deal with the immediate crisis, as well as the longterm commitments to safety and security of the american people. Desantis notably didnt meet with the president. When asked about the states recovery process, the government slammed federal response to the fires in maui, accusing the government of just throwing money at the disaster instead of actually helping. He praised floridas preparedness for its own Natural Disaster. We were prepared. We responded, and, really, what the federal governments role is just turning on programs that congress has enacted over many, many years. So its basically serving as a checkbook to get people reimbursed for Debris Cleanup to give people individual assistance. So in that sense, i think that has been turned on. I anticipate that that will go smoothly. Chinas premier will attend the 2024 summit in china. Earlier u. S. President joe biden said hes disappointed that he wont see chinese president xi jinping at the g20. I am disappointed that ill never get to see him. Biden will be traveling to new delhi for the meeting of the worlds top 20 economies. Cnns Kristie Lu Stout joins us from hong kong. This news that xi jinping wont be attending. Many factors, obviously theres been tensions recently over borders and maps between u. S. And china. And also the lastminute cancellation of the speech from the brick summit from xi jinping. What do you think is behind the decision not to be there . Well, bianca, we were seeking declarely in todays Foreign Ministry Foreign Affairs meeting that just wrapped in the last hour, what we learned is that the Chinese Premier will be there in new delhi. This is the clearest sign yet that xi jinping is not attendin speculation he would be a noshow. This is what we heard at the vitation of the government of republican of india, premier of the State Council will attend the summit to be held in new delhi, india, September 9th and 10th. There was no mention of xi at all in that statement. Xi has attended all meetings since becoming president in 2013 even during the pandemic in 2021, he joined video link. And in this conversation hell be missing out on Climate Change and ukraine. And it comes as china and india clash over a border dispute. And it also comes as china battles a number of economic challenges at home with one of the countrys largest Home Builders warning of default. On sunday, had we did hear from president joe biden, he told reporters that he was disappointed that xi was not attending the g20 summit but also suggested that hell be meeting with xi in the future. And they do need to meet because u. S. china tensions have been flaring up over trade and territorial disputes. In addition, theres been a number of senior biden officials who have gone to china to visit in recent month including the u. S. Commerce secretary and President Biden did tell cnn he would be meeting with xi jinping in the fall. They may have an opportunity to speak on the sideline of the apex in november, its important to note bidend and xi, they last spoke on the sideline in bali last november. Thats been the only inperson encounter between these two leaders since biden took off in 2021. Back to you, guys. Kristie lu stout, thank you. Ukrainian president zelenskyy is overhauling the countrys leadership military in the middle of a major counteroffensive. Zelenskyy said hes dismissing his Defense Minister reznikov. In recent months, the president has cracked down on corruption in his department. Reznikov hasnt been directly implicated himself, but mr. Zelenskyy says its time for change. Translator Oleksiy Reznikov has been through more than 550 days of fullscale war. I believe that the Ministry Needs New approaches and other formats of interaction with both the military and society as a whole. The Ukrainian Military Officials Say russia has launched massive attacks across the country. Air defenses shot down 17 drones in the odesa region. Ukraine said some hit their targets. Salma abdelaziz joins us now. Salma, lets begin with the new Defense Minister, to extend the service it may seem about strange timing as were hearing about ukrainian progress breaking through the front line of russian defenses. In many ways, reznikov is one of the most important faces of this conflict. Hes developed Close Relationships with the west. Hes made really good partnerships with his u. S. Allies, hes been able to maintain and push for Material Support that is needed on the ground on those front lines, but his ministry has faced issues of corruption, allegations of corruption in the last few months. As you mentioned though hes not directly implicated in those, as you may remember earlier this year, a slew of officials were zbl dismissed amid procurement of supplies. In the wake of that the Defense Minister resigned in august. We saw president zelenskyy dismiss the head of all Recruitment Offices across ukraine. You have to remember, president zelenskyy had promised to crack down on corruption from the time he was campaigning as president. This has been a longstanding issue in ukraine, probably even more magnified by the conflict. And as you mentioned, it does come as a dismissal time, this dismissal, very key figure, key character, being pushed of the ministry, of course, as ukraine says its making gains on the ground. Gains on the counteroffensive. Able to break through those first lines. The person who is nominated rustem umer rov, hes going to face pressures to ramp up that counteroffensive. What do we know about on the ground over the weekend . The key that we need to focus on is odesa, weve seen several russian Drone Attacks, in port tears, on the danube river reports, all of this coming ahead with a very important meeting with president erdogan, who is going to try to defy the black Sea Initiative grain deal. That deal is so key to ukraine being able to export grain to the rest of the world thats caused major issues across the market. The fact that russia is using this point in time to attack those ports is a reminder of why that deal is so important. And may be a way for russia to, lets say, come at a stronger position on the Negotiating Table when they speak to president erdogan later today. Salma, thank you so much. The annual burning Manifest Value has turned into a real mess this year. 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But in reality, its really nice. Things felt really safe and comfortable for the vast majority of people from my impression but actually fun because we were there, you know, for our community, we all came together and we made the best of it. Were learning the organizer is now planning to postpone the main event. They say the burning of a large wooden effigy will happen monday night, instead of sunday. Cnns Camila Bernal has more. Reporter its still muddy, its still messy for thousands of people stranded here in black rock city. Where we are right now is the main entraens and exit point to the festival. So thousands are expected to exit here on monday. We saw many, many cars trying to get out because this is the entrance of la playa. Many are getting stuck in the mud. Im going to show you what that mud, cakey mud looks like. This is what people are walking hours in it. Youre seeing it on their shoes. Theyre covered in this mud covered on this bike, it makes it impossible for cars and rvs. They told me they were stuck here for hours trying to get out of the mud. So its difficult to get out, and the concern is for people who did not bring enough supplies, enough food, enough water and needed to get out. Heres one person who told me she just needed to get out today. Its quite expansive out there, and it probably took three three hours of slogging to walk just from my camp to the road. I did get a little hitchhike, too, into the back of someones truck. But, yeah, its just really thick dense mud. So wherever its wet, its just heavy and sticky. And its a real sloppy mess out there. Most everything is turned off. But theres still some people partying. And everybody i talked to has remained extremely positive, telling me theyre making the best out of a difficult situation, saying theyre still having fun, that theyve enjoyed the festival. Unfortunately, authorities did report one death. They said a body was found, they did not give any details into what happened. And organizers here are continuing to tell people to be safe. Theyre preparing to get thousands of people out of here. So theyre telling them this is going to be a long process. The exodus as they call. Camila bernal, cnn. The mud is actually one of the setting points. And the Central Tenet of burning man is to fly to space where people can be unreserved themselves. Should you go next year . Dont you feel evolved already . No . To the burning man people, best of luck. I cant imagine youd go. Id rather be in the library. The manhunt for a convicted kill here escaped a philadelphia prison is headed into day five. 32yearold was just sentenced to life without parole for killing his former girlfriend. Cnns Polo Sandoval has the latest details on the search. 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Meanwhile, south africa is trying to put to rest that its negotiations support russia. First, lets go to cnns nic robertson, our International Diplomatic editor. Hes here with us in the studio. I mean, theres so much resting on this, isnt there, not just for ukraine and russia but those that received this. In particular, when President Putin met recently with african leaders, his thought was its not my fault that grain is not getting through so what tasks that the u. S. Agency is saying that putin and erdogan will discuss will be the u. N. Grain deal, the original Black Sea Grain Deal. Possibly the mistruce of turkey as a midpoint for russian to europe gas, natural gas. And the other thing that putin is going to put forward apparently, according to sources is the russian idea of the new Black Sea Grain Deal for them, whereby their grain goes to turkey and then is unshipped from there. This is something that they say is supported by qatar. Obviously, thats something of a red line for the ukrainians who say you need to thwart you need to thwart any efforts by russia to sort of circumvent the black sea deal. The u. N. Wrote to Sergey Lavrov last week saying we have a conflict planned for you, these are the steps. The russian pushback on that is were given promises, not guarantees. I think its worth resetting, remembering here, that russias War Of Choice led to its inability to get its grain and fertilizer on a global market, the war that it started is the cause of its pain. But it does appear that russia wants more out of the deal. They pulled out a month ago. Ukraine wants to keep going with it. Lets turn now to our Senior International correspondent David Mckenzie in johannesburg. David, south africa was accused of shipping arms to russia. They said theres no evidence of that, but how thorough and transparent was this investigation . Reporter well, bianca, some of that evidence theyre going to keep under wraps because the president of south africa says it is information that is private, or, rather, is classified. Because they do admit, and they do confirm that there were arms bought by that vessel, ordered in 2018, to south africa for the south african military. Now, youll remember this intriguing story and these images of the sanctioned russian vessel arriving in south africa in december. And now the very unusual move from the u. S. Government, through their ambassador, criticizing south africa, saying they have evidence that weapons and ammunitions were loaded back on that vessel bound for russia. And for his part, the ambassador is saying that we are confident that weapons were loaded on to that vessel. And i would bet my life on the accuracy of that assertion. Well, now, the president of south africa saying this when all matters are considered, none of the allegations made about the supply of weapons to russia have been proven to be true. And none of the persons who made these allegations could provide any evidence to support the claims that had been leveled against our country. Reporter now, the question is where that information by the u. S. Government came from. I think both sides are looking to put this matter to bed. But, certainly, i dont think necessarily its go going away anytime soon, bianca, max. Where do you think this does lead between relations between south africa and the u. S. . Because theres been so many tensions, hasnt there, since the russian invasion particularly . Reporter well, thats right, south africa has long stated has a nonaligned outlook on the war in ukraine. And taking sides is not something they have wanted to do. But it has been criticized for taking sides in some way with russia by mostly western powers. So this latest wrinkle may ease tensions somewhat. You did go through a period of the most tense, i think, diplomatic relations between the u. S. And south africa for some years. There is a sense that that is easing, you have a Major Economic summit here in johannesburg in the coming months that will be attended by senior u. S. Officials, im sure. But the question remains, is are the efforts of the u. S. And europe to isolate putin working when you have countries like south africa and all over the African Continent and asia that seem much more willing to do business with russia, that for this case, specifically, the south africans saying nothing untoward happened, max. David mckenzie in johannesburg, also nic here in london. A look now at some of the Severe Weather happening across the globe. Typhoon is headed towards ch chinas province and expected to be let. S the storm approached the island some 7,000 people rushed to flee their homes. Taiwans Electricity Provider is still working to restore power to Tens Of Thousands of customers. More than 200 flights have been delayed or cancelled. Offices were closed and schools suspended some several counties and cities. In spain, Storm Warnings are in effect monday for cities like madrid and barcelona. One visitor said he and other travelers acted quickly to stay safe as torrential rains swept across the country. Translator we organized amongst ourselves to make ropes with towels and bed sheets and used them to pull two young men grabbing on to columns. We pulled them to the top floor and saved them. It was terrifying. Very, very scary with small children women, nobody showed up, we were left alone to save ourselves. It was terrifying. Officials are warning against unnecessary travel in the madrid area today. And with madrids match with sophia has been respoked. And europes deadliest blaze this summer the wildfire is blamed for deaths of at least 20 people. Its destroyed homes and businesses and burned forests. Thol wildfires are common in greece, Authorities Say Climate Change has made it much more intense this year. Scientists are racing to understand the highly mutated coronavirus variant ba. 286 has made a leap dollar to the one the omicron variant made years ago. If you remember the omicron wave caused hospitalizations despite the highest point in the pandemic in the u. S. But early lab tests are easing fears. One scientific saying that the new variant is not, quote, the Second Coming of omicron. Preliminary results in china find that the variant appears less infectious than previous viruses, and a swedish study is finding the antibodies do not appear to be prowess against it. Still to come, a military is set to swear in a president from seizing power last week. Well have the latest. Feeling sluggish or weighed down . Could be a sign youre not getting enough daily fiber. Metamucil capsules can help. 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World leaders and environmental activists are committing to meet early on the urgent consequences to Climate Change. The threeday Africa Climate summit 23 will explore solutions to the potentials of Climate Change having on the con nents. And putting a particular Focus On Drought and other weather. The changing climates with the impact on migration and ways to fund Climate Initiatives in countries saddled with debt. The leader of gabons Military Coup Set to be sworn in as the countrys transitionial president , it comes just weeks after the president brice nguema seized power. The dynasty of the bongo family which has been in power almost 50 years. Cnns Stephanie Basari joins us live from lagos. Stephanie, it appears they got away with it. Reporter well, max, yes, in effect, later on in about an hour and a half, general Brice Olique Nguema will be sworn in as gabons transitional president. We dont know what that means, its said he will give way to democratic rule. But it hasnt quite outlined a specific time line for that to happen. We know Opposition Leaders in gabon, who claim to have won the election in which president nguema was declared the winner. They are in talks with oliqui and his counterparts saying the power belongs to us. We won the elections. Were not quite sure where we are with those negotiations. With the swearing in, nguema appears to be solidifying his grip on power. Hes declaring what that power looks like. Take a listen. Translator dissolution of institutions the republic is temporary. The aim is to reorganize them to make them more democratic tools more in line with International Standards in terms of respect for human rights, fundamental freedoms, democracy and the rule of law but also the fight against corruption which has become commonplace in our country, Money Laundering and above all the preservation of our environment which is a battle endeared to our country. Reporter so nguema is under some pressure to say when exactly he will give way to this democratic transition. And not all countries have recognized his rule, or his leadership, because, quite frankly, Military Coups are not the way forward. And kind of ousting even unpopular leaders like ali bongo who had been in power for 14 years and about to start another term. And his father before him, remember, was in power for nearly 42 years. So even in those circumstances and with the people of gabon, very happy that theyve been deposed, Military Coups have not been typically the way forward to bring the kind of leadership that people want in these instances, max. And, stephanie, france has deep historic colonial ties to gabon. And has been very critical of the coup and rejected it. Although previously, people have criticized france for not using its influence to try and buttress democratic principles and institutions in the countries its tied to in africa. Where do they stand now in the swearing in . Reporter so france said theyre watching this situation very closely and there are many vested interests in the country with billions of dollars in trade every year, and the french troops stationed there. But youre right, france has come under criticism for Turning A Blind Eye to leaders like bongo and his father before him. Next door neighboring cameroon is a 90yearold president who has been in power since 1982. A close ally of france. And who doesnt even spend much time in cameroon, a country hes supposed to govern. He goes between geneva and france. And there are many leaders like this who are accused of running democratic dictatorships. And who france has very close ties with and doesnt really kind of intervene to say, actually, this is not right. Okay. Stephanie, thank you so much. Now, the mexican senator is the new opposition candidate of that nations president ial election. 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It was the first ever trip there by a pontiff. And during mass, the pope urged catholics in neighboring china to be good citizens and good christians. A rare instance is that the holy father publicly addressing the issue of religion in china. Cnns Michael Holmes has the details. Reporter a gathering of the faithful, in one of the smallest and most remote communities of catholics in the world. On sunday, pope francis celebrated mass in Mon Goal Yashgs a country with a population of around 3 Million People, but only about 1500 are catholics. And nearly all of them came to seat pontiff. Translator im so happy that pope francis visited mongolia. I got emotional when i attended mass. I think it furthered my spirit. Im very, very thankful. Reporter the vatican watchers say this trip to mongolia wasnt just about spreading the churchs message to a country where no pope has visit brd. It was also strategic, and a chance to ease tensions with two of mongolias neighbors china and russia. And there have been tensions over beijing over its treatment of religious minorities and the controversial agreement to jointly appoint bishops in china. But saturday, in words thought to be directed at china and russia the pope said the church is not a threat to governments and secular institutions. And during mass, he made yet another over Tobserver Tour by sending greetings. Translator i wish the best to go ahead, always make progress to chinese catholics i ask to be good christians and good citizens. Reporter some small groups of worshippers travelled from china to the service which was more of a low key affair than other paper trips that can draw over a Million People. But this woman who came from hong kong said it was worth the journey. How did it feel . Really amazing, yeah, because, hes my father. And today, i joined the mass, i feel really amazing. Reporter the pope leaves mongolia no doubt encouraging the catholic base there. 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