World AM News Briefs For Tuesday, 19 June 2018

Good Morning Australia!! - Trump's immoral policy on immigrant children flops at home - Which doesn't stop him from trying to infect Europe with it - The death toll goes up in the Osaka earthquake - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

German police detained Audi motors CEO Rupert Stadler out of fear he would cover-up evidence in the diesel emissions scandal.  Even though the scandal erupted three years ago, just last month Audi admitted that another 60,000 A6 and A7 models with diesel engines had emissions issues.  Other models were found to have been deliberately programmed to return false reading to government emissions tests.  Audi isn't even bothering to fight it, and Volkswagen is expected appoint Netherlands-born manager Bram Schot as interim chief at its Audi unit.

Italy's far-right anti-immigrant interior minister Matteo Salvini is barrelling headlong to the fascism he never fully hid from voters, announced plans to perform a census of the Roma community.   Salvini, of the racist League party, is planning to deport those without Italian nationality - but those found to be Italian would "unfortunately" be allowed to stay, in his words.  It's not clear to where he wants to "deport" the Roma, nor why they wouldn't just return to Italy which is part of Europe's Schengen Zone of free movement.

And now, the idiot:

The orange clown Donald Trump has waddled into European politics to try and undermine German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who is under increasing pressure at home because of her welcoming policies towards refugees and migrants.  Merkel's interior minister Horst Seehofer is threatening to turn away migrants at the border unless Merkel gets the rest of the European Union to agree on a common immigration policy - in two weeks.  That, of course, would be very difficult with far-right coalitions in power in the eastern countries, as well as in Austria and Italy. 

And that's where the pig Trump comes in.  He tweeted that Merkel's hold on her governing coalition "looks tenuous" and outright lied about immigrants being behind Germany's "high crime rate" - when in fact it is at a 26-year low.  "Trump is trying to sway the domestic political debate in favor of right-wing conservatives and populist elements in Germany," said Rolf Mutzenich of the center-Left Social Democrats.  "We will not change our constitutional principles and precepts of European cooperation (learned) from history to align with the 'America First' policy in Washington."  German officials recently blasted the US for appointing an ambassador who came to Europe, only to instantly align himself with far-right populists against the sitting governments.

But Trump's vile garbage isn't playing too well at home.  A brand-new CNN poll found that 67 percent disapproved of his administration's policy of separating undocumented migrant families as they cross the border, and placing the kids into what amounts to cages in concentration camps in make-shift rented facilities such as abandoned retail stores.  Trump has sought to defend this policy and hold the migrant as bargaining chips to force the Democrats to bargain on his proposed border wall (that Mexico was supposed to pay for).  His lackeys have in 24 hours denied the policy exists and refused to apologize for it; Attorney General Jess Sessions sought to justify it with the bible verse notoriously used by past evil-doers to justify slavery and the US genocide of Native Americans.

Anyway..

Colombia's peace deal with the Communist FARC former rebels is in danger after the weekend elections, won by conservative candidate Ivan Duque.  He ran on a promise to "renegotiate" the deal which ended the 50-year civil war and earned a Nobel Peace Prize for President Juan Manuel Santos, a center-right pol who will step down in August.  More than 7,000 former rebels have already surrendered their weapons, and now Duque is going to stab them in the back.  "The FARC expresses its willingness to meet with the president-elect to present its views on the implementation of the peace agreement," party leader Rodrigo "Timochenko" Londono said at a news conference in Bogota.

Around 80 people are missing after a passenger ferry sank on Indonesia's Lake Toba, a major tourism hotspot on Sumatra and the largest volcanic lake in the world.  An all-night rescue mission has located and rescued 18 people.  Authorities believe it was operating illegally with no manifest.

Yesterday's earthquake in Osaka killed four people, including a nine-year old girl who was hit by a falling wall on her way to school.  There was also some moderate infrastructure damage, including ruptured water mains, gas fires, and the collapse of a few older, non-reinforced buildings.