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Hi, Christmas. Exciting. And this is what's happening today. Yeah. EU leaders are going to give Ukraine

some 90 billion euros in their loan to fund their war effort, but no deal has been agreed on

unfreezing those Russian assets and giving those to Ukraine. It's deadline day for the US Justice

Department to release all the

files it holds on Jeffrey Epstein. This comes though as the Democrats have shared more

pictures from the late sex offenders' estates, so we'll be talking about that. Yeah, and officials in the

United States have confirmed the suspect in the shooting at Brown University last weekend

has been found dead.

They've also told us there used to be a student there.

And a Harvard University astrophysicists has suggested that an unusual object,

which is making its closest ever approach to Earth, could be aliens.

NASA have dismissed these suggestions, but we'll give you all the details.

You need to clear that up.

Ukraine will get a loan of 90 billion euros, interest-free to support them for the next two years from the EU without using frozen Russian assets.

So EU leaders had a day of intense talks in Belgium yesterday, but they failed to agree on using

those frozen Russian assets. So instead the money comes from a loan, which is backed by the

EU budget. And Belgium in these talks had been the real sticking point. They were the country

that blocked using the frozen Russian money because they were worried about possible future legal action by Russia.

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