Good Morning Australia!! - At least four are killed in an attack in the shadow of London's Big Ben - Trump's Russia problem just got a little murkier - Germany does the right thing, a little late - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

London Metro Police shot and killed a terrorist after he plowed an SUV into crowds of tourists on Westminster Bridge, crashing into the gates between Big Ben and Parliament.  At least two people were killed on the bridge, and several have "catastrophic" injuries.  The attacker - described as a thick-set man in black - then ran through the gates of a Palace of Westminster, stabbing and mortally wounding the officer guarding the entrance used by the PM and MPs.  Other officers quickly responded to the incident they had trained for, shooting and killing the attacker while people fled the area.  Police say they are treating the attack as a terrorist incident until evidence shows otherwise.

A Harvard University researcher named Radoslaw Sikorski was on Westminster Bridge as the dark grey vehicle rammed tourists and Londoners alike, and he managed to roll video of the aftermath.  The brief clip shows the dead and injured on the floor as people rush to assist each other, and several people were seen with horrific injuries to their heads and bodies.  On the bridge at the time was a group of French high schoolers from the Brittany region who were left injured and/or traumatized.  A woman apparently fell off of the bridge and into the Thames during the attack; she was pulled out of the water alive but needed urgent treatment.

Eyewitnesses recalled how they escaped the scene of the attack.

Immediately after the first shots were heard, Parliament suspended its session and lawmakers were told to stay put and keep low until the situation was normalized.  Security officers hustled Prime Minister Theresa May back to Downing Street, and she planned to hold an emergency security meeting later in the day.  The attack happened after 2:00 PM and people weren't allowed out of Whitehall until after the sun started going down.  Large portions of Central London likewise were locked down for several hours, closing several key tube and train stations and even trapping tourists in the gondolas on the London Eye Ferris Wheel until the all clear came.

A member of Parliament is being praised for attempting mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on the stabbed officer, applying pressure on the wound to stem the bleeding, and staying with him as emergency medical technicians tried to save him.  Tobias Ellwood is a former Army Captain and reservist, and a member of the Conservative Party representing Bournemouth East.  It's not MP Ellwood's first brush with terrorism:  His brother Jonathan was killed in the 2002 Bali Bombings.

Moving along...

While police work out the motive of the London Attacker, there is some speculation that it was timed to coincide with the anniversary of the Brussels attack.  On 22 March 2016, a team of suicide bombers from the so-called Islamic State struck the heart of the capital of Belgium and its airport killing 32 people and wounding 300 more.  Belgian officials and royals led commemorations at at Zaventem airport, and another memorial took place at the Maelbeek underground station.  Sixteen people died at each location.

Germany is expelling two men who were born in the country to African parents after they were arrested on suspicion of planning terrorist attacks.  It's the first such deportations in the modern history of Germany, which considers the nationality of one's parents along with one birthplace when considering citizenship.  The country has been on high alert since the Berlin Christmas market attack on 19 December, that left twelve people dead and dozens injured.

The convictions of 50,000 gay men will be quashed in Germany, as the cabinet is backing a bill to clear people convicted under the nazi-era law against homosexuality.  Justice Minister Heiko Maas said it was a flagrant injustice and those still alive would be given compensation.  But many died with the unjust criminal conviction, and others even committed suicide because of the stigma.

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has arrived in Australia for a five-day visit in which he is expected to position his country as the free trade alternative to Donald Trump's protectionism.  Mr. Li and his delegation will go to work in Canberra and Sydney on officials and business people left cold by Trump's unhinged and nonsensical rhetoric.  "Self-isolation will never lead one to the land of happiness," Li wrote in an editorial in The Australian.  "Protectionism offers no genuine protection.  History cannot be turned back, just as the trend of the times cannot be reversed."

The current occupant of the White House is acting like a criminal defendant again.  Donald Trump and his spokesman Sean "Spicey" Spicer are distancing themselves from Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort - after the Associated Press reported that Manafort secretly worked for a Russian billionaire to advance the interests of Russian President Vladimir Putin a decade ago.  Manafort went as far as to propose an ambitious political strategy to undermine anti-Russian opposition across former Soviet republics, including Ukraine.  Despite managing Trump's campaign for the first part of 2016, Spicey diminished his roles as "counting delegates" for the Republican National Convention and woldn't comment further.  The new revelations further clouds Trump's Russia problem - the day after FBI Director James Comey testified that his agency has an active investigation into possible collusion between Trump’s campaign and Russian officials.

Also in Stupid American politics, a Colorado state Republican party official who once claimed that only Democrats commit vote fraud has been charged with - you guessed it - vote fraud.  Prosecutors say 57-year old Steven Curtis, now a talk radio blowhard, posted his ex-wife's absentee ballot after the election material was accidentally mailed to his house.  The former Mrs. Curtis, who left him after just nine months, found out about it when she called officials to check on her voting status and was livid.  Steven Curtis faces up to three years in prison if convicted.

The US will pay $1,000,000 to the family of a teen who was forced by border patrol agents to drink a bottle of liquid methamphetamine.  Cruz Velazquez Acevedo tried to cross from Tijuana with what he claimed was apple juice.  The family lawyer said two border patrol agents "coerced and intimidated" the kid into drinking the liquid even though they suspected it was a controlled substance.  Zelazquez died within hours. 

Kenya has charged an IT expert with tapping US$39 Million from the country's tax authority.  28-year old Alex Mutungi Mutuku denies allegations he is part of an international hacker gang stealing millions from government agencies.