for more, let's turn to nbc's matt bodner. good morning, matt. >> frances, good morning. according to "the washington post," president-elect trump spoke to putin last thursday. and that marks the first time that the two have spoken since he won reelection last week. we still don't have a full picture of what these two discussed, be the post reported that trump warned putin not to escalate the war in ukraine. trump of course boasted during the campaign that he could end this war in as little as 24 hours. trump reportedly also reminded putin on this call of the u.s. military's significant presence in europe. now trump's communications director told reuters on sunday that they do not comment on private calls with other world leaders. nbc news has reached out to the trump team to comment, but has not confirmed the call directly. this reporting on trump's conversation with putin follows a call with ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy. that took place on wednesday. a source familiar with the matter told nbc news that elon musk was present with trump during that phone call w

let's turn now to matt bodner, what do we know about this initial proposal?reporter: frances, good morning. we still don't know very much about the content of the proposal but they are optimistic a cease-fire can be reached. officials have signaled some optimism for some kind of deal. the energy minister, eli cohen said prospects for a cease-fire were the most promising since the start of the conflict. based on previous efforts to secure a cease-fire in lebanon, we would potentially see something like a 60-day cease-fire with hezbollah pulling forces back from the lebanese-israeli border among other things. the biden administration is pushing for a cease-fire before leaving office, and the "washington post," citing three current and former israeli officials is reporting that netanyahu himself may be looking to secure a cease-fire to present to the incoming administration with an early oreign policy win. as for the war in gaza, secretary of state antony blinken said on wednesday that the u.s. want as role and extended pause in fighting in gaza so that humanita

for more, let's turn to nbc's matt bodner, good morning, matt. >> reporter: frances, good morning. president biden speaking from the amazon rainforest said that no one can turn back america's clean energy revolution. these remarks, of course, stand in sharp contrast to policies expected from the incoming administration, for example, a pledge to withdraw from the paris climate agreement. biden is in brazil to attend this week's g-20 summit which kicks off today. he flew to brazil from peru which last week hosted the asia pacific cooperation leadership. he met with xi jinping. this is likely a cap stone trip for the outgoing president. biden's arrival in rio de janeiro coincides with his policy halfway around the globe. two u.s. officials report that biden has authorized ukraine to use u.s. missiles for limited strikes within russia. russia's round-the-clock strikes against civilians inside ukraine in recent months have mostly been launched from deep within russia. many of the sites that russia is using to launch these strikes are still well beyond the range of american weapons, but

let's go live to nbc's matt bodner in london. good morning, matt. >> reporter: christina, good morning. the white house says some 8,000 north koreaing n troops have ma their way to positions near the ukrainian border. in the coming days they are expected to join russian forces fighting against ukraine. this number, 8,000 troops, represents a dramatic increase in the size of the north korean force that has been confirmed by western officials just a few days ago. that number was 3,000. the context for all this is that ukrainian forces staged an incursion into russia's kursk region back in august and received a large swath of russian territory. this was a gambit meant to force russia to draw troops off the front of eastern ukraine, but the kremlin has not fully taken that bait. instead, they've doubled down on their offensive in the donbas region. but, as a result, the russian forces have struggled toel ukraine's incursio re incursi ukraine's inc incursion. the numbers are not quite enough to offset the casualties russia itself is ta

for more, let's turn to matt bodner. good morning, matt. >> reporter: frances good morning -- president biden speaking from the amazon rainforest said no one can turn back america's clean energy revolution. these remarks, of course, stand in stark contrast to policies expected from the incoming administration. for example, a pledge to withdraw from the paris climate agreement. biden is in brazil to attend this week's g-20 summit which kicks off today. he flew to brazil from peru. there, he met with xi jinping. his arrival in rio de janeiro coincides with a major change in his administration's policy halfway around the globe. two u.s. officials are telling nbc news that biden has authorized ukraine to use american long-range weapons for limited strikes within russia. ukraine has been asking united states to lift these restrictions for a long time now. russia's round-the-clock strikes against civilians inside ukraine, especially in recent months, have mostly been launched from deep within russia. many of the sites that russ

let's go to matt bodner for the latest. good morning, matt. >> reporter: frances, good morning. tension was high in kiev yesterday, following that u.s. embassy statement but the ukrainian military has since said it was part of a russian psychological operation aimed at scaring the public. zelenskyy said panic only helps the russians but he did urge ukrainians to heed warnings. russia has already conducted some of its largest missile and drone attacks on ukrainian cities since the start of the war just over 1,000 days ago. with that in mind, yesterday's concerns were amplified by the contexts. there have been a number of significant developments, beginning with the biden administration lifting some restrictions on american long-range weapons on russian territory. we've seen similar restrictions lifted by some european allies on their weapons and ukraine has already conducted strikes with these weapons. vladimir putin on tuesday announced alterations to his nuclear doctrine which appeared to lower his threshold for this use. they said they're not surprised by the move. the kremlin

let's bring in nbc's matt bodner for more. >> reporter: frances, good morning. dramatic images coming off that spirit airlines flight. the plane appears to have taken a number of hits. images showing damage to the exterior. as you mentioned, one of the flight attendants was injured, diverting to the dominican republic. the incident has forced other u.s. airlines such as jetblue and american to cancel their flights to haiti. one jetblue flight that took off yesterday was also later discovered to have taken fire. a statement issued by the airline says the operating crew initially thought everything was fine but fine but later upon inspection they discovered it was hit by bullets. this is the latest in weeks of another round of political chaos in haiti. yesterday, a transitional council fired the sitting prime minister, replacing him with a local businessman and former senator. the united nations estimates that a coalition of armed gangs currently controls about 85% of the capital. of course port-au-prince. in these incidents with commercial aircraft may be part of

>> okay, matt bodner for us, thank you. >>> sean "diddy" combs will head back to court this afternoon to make yet another case to get out of jail on bail. the music mogul is in custody at brooklyn's metropolitan center, facing charges including sex trafficking. he has been denied bail twice so far. it comes after prosecutors accused him of breaking jail rules in an attempt to manipulate witness testimony and taint the potential jury pool, according to court documents. >>> new developments in the case of a wisconsin father who allegedly faked his death on a kayak and fled the country. authorities say ryan bogworth sent a video and said he was safe but would not give his location. he also revealed how he did it, involving an inflatable boat, a 70-mile trip on an e-bike and buss to canada to catch a plane. he is believed to be in eastern europe. >>> storms are striking coast-to-coast, bringing relief to the east coast and worry on the west. the northeast finally seeing that much-needed rain as the historic drought fueled hundreds of fires. and snow is on the way for some parts of new jer

let's go to matt bodner for the latest. >> reporter: the ukrainian military has said that the missile threat was part of a russian psychological operation aimed at scaring the public. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy said yesterday that panic about a russian strike only helps the russians. though he did urge ukrainians to continue to heed warn ings. russia has already conducted some of its largest missile and drone attacks on ukrainian cities since the start of the war. and with that in mind, yesterday's concerns were amplified by the context. in the past few days, there have been a number of significant developments in the war, with the biden administration lifting some restrictions on the use of american long-range weapons on russian territory. since then, we have similar restrictions lifted by european allies. the kremlin has responded with sometimes outright threats of nuclear war. vladimir putin announced changes to the threshold for use. the u.s. is not surprised by the kremlin's moves. moscow has a history of trying to scare the west with nuclear threats when things don'