Hello Australia!! - A stunning prediction for the UK election - New Zealand begins recovering bodies from the volcano - Greta jabs Trump - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

The Exit Poll from the UK election is out, and it could foretell a disaster for Jeremy Corbyn and Labour, as well as the Liberal Democrats who had hoped to thwart the oncoming Brexit.  The BBC/ITV/Sky exit poll shows the Conservative Party winning the UK election by a landslide with 368 seats in Commons - well above the 326 seats needed for a clear majority.  If the poll holds out, Labour drops to 191 seats, its worst showing since the 1980s; the Scottish National Party expands to 55; the Lib-Dems plunge to 13, and party leader Jo Swinson could be set to lose her seat; and minor parties after that.  Again, if it holds, UK voters have handed the biggest, landslide majority since Margaret Thatcher to the Tories and Boris Johnson to carry out the country's exit from the European Union in a matter of days.

A recovery team in two New Zealand Defense Force military helicopters has reached New Zealand's Whakaari-White Island to retrieve the bodies of eight people believed to have been killed in this week's volcano blast.  The operation is proving slower and more dangerous than anticipated, because of the ash and poisonous gases released by the volcano.  Even though the recovery team is wearing protective clothing and breathing gear, New Zealand's geological science agency GNS Science puts the risk of another blast at 50 to 60 percent.  

Swedish teen climate activist Greta Thunberg is not impressed with the COP25 climate conference in Madrid.  The 16-year old slammed world leaders for "misleading" the public with weak emission-reduction pledges and "finding clever ways around having to take real action" through climate accounting tricks and outsourcing emissions overseas to poorer countries.  Noting that world leaders aren't acting exactly acting like they recognize the reality of the global warming emergency, alleging they "have turned into some kind of opportunity for countries to negotiate loopholes and to avoid raising their ambition".  Thunberg noted that 100 companies are responsible for 71 percent of greenhouse gas emissions, and that since the Paris agreement, global banks have invested US$1.9 Trillion in fossil fuels. 

Thunberg also got a chance to mock Donald Trump, who tweeted out of jealousy for Greta being chosen as Time Magazine's Person of the Year:  "Greta must work on her Anger Management problem, then go to a good old fashioned movie with a friend! Chill Greta, Chill!"  Greta clapped back by changing the description on her twitter account to read, "A teenager working on her anger management problem," and, "Currently chilling and watching a good old fashioned movie with a friend."  Earlier, she tweeked Brazil's far right president Jair Bolsonaro in the same way when he called her a brat.  US Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez then scolded Trump:  "Because nothing says 'mature temperament' like getting rankled by a 16 year old activist."

The leader of Canada's Conservative Party Andrew Scheer has resigned two months after losing his country's election to center-Left PM Justin Trudeau's Liberals.  Scheer was under criticism in recent days because of revelations the party was partially paying for his childrens' private school tuition.

Chile says there were no survivors from the apparent crash of a military C-130 transport plane that crashed while flying from the country's far south to Antarctica.  The plane was carrying 38 people.  Searchers located human remains in the Southern Ocean along the flight's path:  "The condition of the remains we discovered make it practically impossible that anyone could have survived the airplane accident," said Air Force Chief Arturo Merino, "I feel immense pain for this loss of lives."