Good Morning Australia!! - Trump does his best to ruin the world - Scotland takes a step towards the "out" door - Turkey opens a new front in its bad, bad, and getting worse relations with Europe - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

Donald Trump rolled back most of former US President Barack Obama's environmental legacy with a wide-ranging executive order slashing at green programs in the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Interior, and the Department of Defense.  It directly attacks Mr. Obama's Clean Power Plan which limits carbon pollution from power plants, and opens the doors to more coal mining, fracking, oil, and gas drilling on US soil, and eases regulations on methane emissions. 

Democrats and environmentalists are furious:  Tom Steyer, the president of NexGen Climate, said, "Trump is deliberately destroying programs that create jobs and safeguards that protect our air and water, all for the sake of allowing corporate polluters to profit at our expense."  Andrew Steer, CEO of the World Resources Institute, said Trump is "failing a test of leadership to protect Americans' health, the environment, and economy".  Democratic Governors Jerry Brown of California and Andrew Cuomo of New York issued a joint statement saying they're still committed to their own emissions targets - which are even stricter than the Obama power-plant rule that the orange clown is eliminating.

The Scottish Parliament is backing First Minister Nicola Sturgeon's call to seek a new independence referendum before the UK leaves the European Union.  Lawmakers voted 69 to 59 in favor of seeking permission for a referendum.  Prime Minister Theresa May says "now is not the time" for a referendum and her government will try to postpone it until after the Brexit.

Two UN experts who were kidnapped in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been found dead.  The bodies of US citizen Michael Sharp and Swedish national Zaida Catalan were discovered in the central Kasai region, where they were dispatched to investigate reports of abuses after rebels took up arms.  This comes after around 40 police officers were found beheaded in the region.  Violence broke out in the capital Kinshasa after religious leaders walked out of their role as moderators of power-sharing talks, deciding that neither side had the best interests of the country in mind.

China is reportedly ready to move the military in on its man-made islands in the South China Sea, with the completion of dozens of airplane hangars and radar installations.  The facilities will go a long way to assert Chinese control over an area far beyond its internationally recognized maritime borders.  Each of the three islands has new aircraft hangers, capable of holding 24 military aircraft, as well as several larger hangars that can hold bombers or surveillance planes, according to the defense think tank the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative (AMTI).

Beijing is demanding answers after the police shooting of a Chinese man in Paris.  French officials promise to "get to the bottom of the incident as soon as possible".  Police initially said that 56-year old father of five Liu Shaoyo came at them with a scissors in the 19th arrondissement, but the man's family denies it.  The shooting set off clashes between members of the Chinese community in Paris and the cops.

A court in France sentenced Carlos the Jackal to a third life sentence for throwing a grenade into a shopping arcade in 1974.  Formerly the world's most notorious terrorist, the 67-year old convicted killer born Ilich Ramirez Sanchez is already serving two life terms for other attacks.

German officials say that reported spying by the Turkish government on German Turks who follow the outlawed cleric Fethullah Gulen is "intolerable and unacceptable" - and they warn that espionage is a crime.  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan blames Gulen for last year's failed coup, and let's face it Erdogan blames Gulen for everything.  Soggy cornflakes?  Gulen.  Rained during golf?  Gulen.  Anyway, Turkey asked Germany's spy service to monitor the Turks last year, but the spies passed off lists of targeted Turks to a local official.  The northern German state of Lower Saxony refused and instead blew the whistle to the targets, noting that there is not one shred of evidence that these people whom Erdogan considers to be enemies have done anything wrong.