Hello Australia!! - The first US Presidential debate of 2016 is tonight, can Trump get through without throwing his own poop? - China flies bombers and warplanes right up to Japan's border - Hollande vows the end of "The Jungle" - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

Unfortunately, the world will be focused on Hofstra University in New York on Monday night, US time, as Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton debates Republican rival and fascist demagogue Donald Trump debate.  This comes with disturbing news that polls in two key swing states, Colorado and Pennsylvania, have tightened up to a virtual tie.  There is also concern that the moderator Lester Holt of NBC News may not fact-check claims made during the debate.  A recent analysis of Trump's speeches and public appearances shows he tells a lie every three minutes and fifteen seconds. 

NBC's record on the most consequential US Presidential Election season in decades has been pretty bad in the past few weeks:  The network aired a "Commander in Chief" forum in which moderator Matt Lauer grilled Hillary Clinton about items unrelated to the purpose of the program, interrupting her frequently;  followed by 25 minutes of soft balls to Trump.  Late night talk show host Jimmy Fallon had Trump on for a lightweight segment in which he failed to ask about the candidate's ties to white supremacists, but did do a pre-planned, comedic "hair tussle" that critics say humanized a dangerous bigot to low information voters.  So.. good luck, world.

US President Barack Obama says he has "deep concern" over the aerial onslaught being waged by Syria and Russia on the rebel-held city of Aleppo.  Medics cannot keep up with the injuries, medicine and blood are running low, the water system has been bombed out, and aid convoys are not coming.  White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters, "What we have seen from the Assad regime and the Russians is a concerted campaign to strike civilian targets, to bomb civilians into submission"; the Syrian government maintains, "The air force will bomb any terrorist movements, this is an irreversible decision."

French President Francois Hollande went to Calais to promise to "definitively, entirely, and rapidly" dismantled "The Jungle" migrant camp by the end of the year.  Thousands of undocumented immigrants from Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia are camped out in the shantytown, waiting for a chance to try to sneak onto trucks crossing the English Channel for the UK.  Mr. Hollande said he will hold the UK to its "responsibility" to help pay for relocation of the migrants.  London has already chipped in for a wall separating the camp from the Calais freight yards, where the trucks enter the Channel Tunnel for England.

China is now militarily probing the East China Sea.  Japan scrambled fighter jets over the weekend after China flew about 40 of its aircraft - bombers, surveillence planes, and at least one fighter jet - alongside disputed waters that have been internationally-recognized as Japanese for decades.  Beijing claims it was a routine patrol.  But the provocative near-incursion into Japanese air space between Okinawa and Miyakojima comes a week after Tokyo said it would take part in said it would take part in joint training exercises with the US Navy in the South China Sea.

The former chief of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Rodrigo Rato - and 64 other bankers - are on trial in Madrid for allegedly looting a bank for luxurious personal expanses.  The Bankia Bank had to he rescued in 2012 at great public expense.  Rato denies his alleged role in running up more than US$10 Million in charges on "unofficial" company credit cards, unconnected with their duties as board members.

By the time you read this, Colombia and the Marxist FARC rebels will likely have formally signed the peace accord ending that country's five-decade civil war.  And it's a pretty sweet deal for the Communists:  They'll get money to help rebel soldiers transition into citizens and business owners; the FARC's political party will be guaranteed representation in the legislature for two terms before having to stand for election.  The FARC is one of the world's last revolutionary movements inspired by the late, great Che Guevara.  President Juan Manuel Santos says the deal will allow Colombia's GDP to grow at twice its current pace and triple foreign directly investment, following years of negative growth and capital flight.