Good Morning Australia!! - The muck that is menacing the Great Barrier Reef - Israeli police investigate the Malka Liefer case - Trump's latest scheme to get his wall - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

The Great Barrier Reef is facing a new threat.  Plumes of polluted floodwater drained off of the northeast coast of Queensland are creeping up on the outer reaches of the Great Barrier Reef.  The muddy mess - which The ABC reports stretched from swollen rivers of the Whitsundays to Cape Tribulation - likely contains nitrogen and pesticide that would put even more stress on the coral that is already suffering from bleaching.  Dr. Friederieke Kroon, who leads the Australian Institute of Marine Science's (AIMS) water quality team, said the flood debris could potentially kill coral and seagrass if it lingered long enough.  An AIMS reef water quality monitoring team is expected to report on how the Great Barrier Reef's coral is coping.

Israel Police questioned Deputy Health Minister Yaakov Litzman for allegedly using his influence to have former Melbourne school principal Malka Liefer declared mentally unfit so she couldn't extradited back to Australia.  Liefer probably would face charges for 74 incidents of sexual assault and rape from her time as principal at the Adass Israel School in Elsternwick, which sacked her in 2008 after accusations of inappropriate conduct with students.  Litzman's office denied any wrongdoing.

After repeatedly failing to secure funding for his proposed border wall from Congress, Donald Trump will reportedly declare a national emergency to fund his wall.  This will come in conjunction with signing the latest US Federal Budget compromise, which includes US$1.3 Billion for border security but not a penny towards a wall.  Democrats clearly think this is an awful idea.  Opponents will challenge Trump in the courts on the basis there is no national emergency caused by America's southern border with Mexico - Undocumented immigration over the southern border is down, and the emergency didn't seem to exist when Trump's Republican party controlled both houses of Congress and could have given him the money to build on during that time, but didn't.

UK PM Theresa May for some reason still has a job despite losing yet another parliamentary vote on her Brexit plan.  The UK is careening towards a potentially disastrous crash out of the European Union in just a matter of a few weeks.  The Tory backbench sat on its collective hands while Ms. May's plan went down 303 to 258; Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said the prime minister needs to "admit her Brexit strategy has failed".

Militants detonated a car bomb that killed 40 Indian paramilitary police on a bus in Indian-administered Kashmir.  The Pakistan-based Islamist group Jaish-e Mohammad claimed responsibility.  Prime Minister Marendra Modi said the attack was "despicable"; Pakistan condemned the violence and said it was a matter of "grave concern".

As expected, Airbus is scrapping the A380 big giant jumbo jet over not big giant sales.  Qantas, which I can never spell correctly on the first pass, recently pulled out of its contracted order.

A group of same-sex couples around Japan are suing the government for the right to marry.  The 13 couples are demanding symbolic damages, arguing that being barred from marriage violates their constitutional rights.  If the courts rule in favor, it would mean that Japan would be required to permit same-sex marriages in the future.  Opinion polling indicates strong support for the case.