Good Morning Australia!! - The UKIP shows its seamy and violent underbelly - A rift develops in Duterte's cabinet - Matthew kills more than a hundred, and that's before it gets to Florida - Whitey REALLY needs to stop going to other countries and dissing the symbols and traditions - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

One UKIP Member of the European Parliament will (maybe) wake up in a French hospital after being punched so hard that he suffered two seizures - and another UKIP MEP is denying he threw the punch.  The details are fuzzy, but troubling.  Stephen Woolfe, who is a leading contender for UKIP party chief, had called a meeting in the party room in Strasbourg, where the altercation took place.  A short time later, video showed him sprawled out on the floor in the European Parliament.  Woolfe's Doctors told him that CT scans showed no blood clot on his brain.  Oh btw, Mr. Woolfe is getting free, quality healthcare in France because UK citizens are still EU citizens - A benefit that won't happen anymore if the Brexit he championed actually goes through.

The other UKIP MEP is Mike Hookem, a cement-head of some renown.  A spokeswoman insists it had been only a "verbal altercation", and that "Mike did not touch him".  And by not touching him, she might have meant "right hook to the face".  Hookem is UKIP's Defense Spokesman, writes a regular column for a right-wing conspiracy site, and is supporting a really big fan of Adolph Hitler for leader of the party instead of Woolfe.  Hookem also can't figure out spellcheck and thinks everyone wants to kill him.

French national police say that no complaint has been filed with them.  UKIP honorary Grand Dragon Nigel Farage admits it makes the party look bad.  Ya think?  These are the folks influencing UK policy and driving the Tories further to the right.

MOVING ALONG..

Philippine nutjob President Rodrigo Duterte wants to wean his country from a "shackling dependency" on the United States - so says Foreign Minister Perfecto Yasay, revealing a rift in the archipelago nation's leadership.  Earlier, Defense Minister Delfin Lorenzana pushed back against Duterte's claims that Philippine troops get nothing out of the alliance with the US, rightfully pointing out the advanced weapons and tactical training the US military shares.  A US spokesman said that the troubling messages coming from Manila seem "at odds with the warm relationship that exists between the Filipino and American people".

The death toll from Hurricane Matthew's passage through Haiti is now more than hundred, and at least 113 for the entire Caribbean region.  Florida officials are warning that "this storm will kill you", as Matthew gathers strength over warm waters off Florida.  Landfall, probably north of Miami, is expected on Thursday night, local time.  More than two million people have been evacuated from the storm's path in America's "sunshine state".

A disturbing story out of Texas (where disturbing stories often come from), police arrested a youth for setting fire to a ten-year old boy with special needs.  The police say the suspect kid was setting fire to a storage shed in the town of Kerrville and may have accidentally splashed flammable liquid on Kayden Hatchett, who is in an induced coma in hospital with burns up to 20 percent of his body.  But the victim's mother Tristyn Hatchett said, "The other boys who were there have been telling kids at school that it was not an accident, that it was intentional."  

Unknown gunmen killed 20 soldiers in northern Niger.  It happened outside a camp in the Tasara region that is hosting Malian refugees.  Mali has been unstable for nearly four years after France led an effort to drive out Islamic extremists.

Al Shabaab terrorists killed six Christians in north-eastern Kenya in an attack aimed at forcing other Christians out of the region.  Local officials say the terrorists first attacked a telecommunications site to draw attention and resources away from their real targets in Mandera town.

Rebel-held areas of the Syrian city of Aleppo face "total destruction" within two months, warns UN Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura, who says he'd personally help escort Al Qaeda-linked fighters out of the city if it would end the fighting.  Mr. de Mistura says thousands of civilians have been killed in the bombardments by Syrian and Russian forces.

Poland's parliament officially killed off a plan to make all abortions illegal.  This is after a series of protests and a general strike on Monday gave the government "food for thought".  Instead, Poland will maintain one of Europe's most-draconian laws restricting women's reproductive choice to instances of severe and irreversible damage to the fetus, a serious threat to the mother's health, or if the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest.

Being a big jerk will cost a Dutchman three months of hard labor in a Myanmar prison.  A court convicted 30-year old Klaas Haytema of "insulting religion" by entering a Buddhist temple in Mandalay - with his shoes on - and unplugging a loudspeaker because the religious service going on at the time was "disturbing his sleep".  Yeah, not the country to make that decision, Klaas.  Myanmar recently deported a Spanish man for having a Buddha tattoo, and jailed a Kiwi bar manager who used an image of the Buddha in an advertisement for drinks.

Well, today's news is horrible.  Here's a robot that folds the laundry.