plus, putin calling in backup, the russian president may soon meet with north korea s kim jong-un to make a plea for more weapons. what does it mean for the war in ukraine? . and on the run, the convicted murderer who escaped from a pennsylvania prison is believed to have been spotted four times now. the district attorney involved in the search is my guest. let s go out front. good evening, welcome to a special edition of out front. i m brianna keilar in for erin burnett. tonight biden s battleground pitch, in what is quickly becoming the center piece of biden s camcampaign, the presid celebrating an upbeat job market in the must win state of pennsylvania. job satisfaction is higher than it s been in 36 years. while unemployment is down, inflation is down as well, bidenomics is a blue collar blueprint for america. it s for you, my plan for the country is to make the economy work for people like you because when it works for people like you, it works for everybody. yeah
the now muddy nevada desert. plus, an escaped killer on the loose. the search intensifying after a convict was caught on a home surveillance video. and ukraine s fired defense minister, president zelenskyy sacking him in the middle of crucial counteroffenses. hi there, welcome to a special holiday edition of early start. i m david culver. we start with what is anything but a relaxing holiday weekend for tens of thousands of people at the burning manifest value in the nevada desert. they are trapped in a sea of mud out there this morning. what a mess out there. they re waiting for organizers to give the all-clear to exit the site. that is expected to happen sometime today. amid a downpour friday and saturday transformed the dry desert dirt into thick clay-like mud that traps bikes and organizers alike. organizers asked the attendees to shelter in place and shelter and food. and also plans to set fire to the iconic burning man effigy in tonight. police out there are inv
around the world. i m bianca nobilo. i m max foster joining you live from london. just ahead on cnn newsroom. americans deserve a competitive federal government that can pass a budget. we re pro keeping the government open. translator: i ve 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. it s just really thick, dense mud. we don t expect this kind of rain. and the effect, nobody s ever seen this kind of effect in there ever. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it s 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 don t come back in next week, but the clock is already ticking to get on the same page about the national
there has been growing concern in washington that the deal was being worked on by russia and north korea, it followed a visit to north korea by the russian defence minister. and so now in the last few hours we have confirmation from officials in washington that it is believed as you say that kim jong un and vladimir putin will meet at some point at a place to be decided it seems or at least revealed in russia over the next few weeks. a very high stakes meeting, they had met before 2019 was the last time in russia but clearly the situation is different now. we know that russia needs more artillery ammunition with very few friends around the world. it is perhaps telling they are turning to a pariah state, like north korea, too it seems source this weaponry that they crucially need to pursue the war in ukraine. that would not be one sided, what we understand and this is been reported by the new york times, this would come at a price and the price for north korea would be advance
translation: i would like to iterate our principal position, we will be ready to consider the possibility of reviving the grain deal, i told the president about it today and we would do it right away. as soon as all the agreements recorded on lifting sanctions on the export of russian agricultural products are lifted. ukraine s black sea ports are now effectively blockaded by russia, experts say it will have to rely heavily on its ports along the danube river to export grain into neighbouring romania from where it can be transported further afield as romania s ports remain open. for many countries the grain from russia has been critical, north africa where they have been experiencing drought that has been a real problem. to discuss what s at stake i m joined by arnaud petit, council. are you disappointed they could not reach agreement to day? there are considerations like financial transactions, we know that now it and cannot be happening just in well the russian agricultural