Hello Australia!! - UN Climate Change talks are in danger of breaking off with no progress - A mysterious death and millions of missing Bitcoins - The "sardines" tackling hate - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

The COP25 climate talks are being extended into Sunday as nations have a hard time coming up with agreements to commit to new carbon emissions cuts by the end of 2020.  One of the main disputes is the definition of the term "loss and damages", through which poor nations - especially island and coastal ones - will seek financial help in dealing with the ravages of climate changes caused by far-off developed nations.  Another is the trading and selling of carbon credits.

The president of the conference, Chilean Environment Minister Carolina Schmidt, has issued a plea for consensus:  "We have to show the outside world that we are delivering the goods," she implored.  But critics say the big countries - specifically, the US, Australia, India, China, and Brazil - have acted as speedbumps to accomplishing anything to stop man-made global warming:  "I have never seen such a great disconnection between what science and the world population demand and what the negotiators propose", deplores Alden Meyer of the Union of Concerned Scientists.  

Prior to the meeting there was not a lot of hope for any now breakthroughs, but many had hoped for baseline diplomatic cooperation and a commitment to press head with the Paris Climate Accord of 2015, which holds the goal of keeping global warming to no more than 2 C Degrees more than pre-industrial levels.  "This is a disastrous, profoundly distressing outcome - the worst I have ever seen," said Mohamed Adow, the director of the climate thinktank Power Shift Africa.  "At a time when scientists are queuing up to warn about terrifying consequences if emissions keep rising, and schoolchildren taking to the streets in their millions, what we have here in Madrid is a betrayal of people across the world."

Oh yeah, the temperature in parts of the Outback might reach 50 C Degrees this week.  No worries.

Anyway..

Tens of thousands people packed a piazza in Rome to protest far-right leader Matteo Salvini, his La Liga (The League) party, and their allies.  Calling themselves the Sardines - because of the crowds that have packed themselves tightly like the fish into squares in allied demonstrations across Italy - they kept individual political parties out of it while endorsing anti-fascism.  "We are weary of this culture of hatred," said one of The Sardines leaders, journalist Stephen Ogongo.  "We will no longer tolerate language that is racist, fascist, discriminatory, or sexist."  The Sardines movements spreang from nothing to hundreds of thousands of people in a matter of a few weeks.

A court in Sudan has sentenced deposed president Omar al-Bashir to two years in prison for corruption, receiving illegal gifts and possessing foreign currency.  He still faces trial for other charges, including in the deaths of protesters during the demonstrations that toppled him in April; he also faces questioning in the 1989 coup that brought him to power.

Lawyers are trying to get Canada to exhumed the grave of Gerald Cotten, founder of the QuadrigaCX cryptocurrency exchange.  He died in India a year ago in Jaipur, India under what the attorneys say are "questionable circumstances"; after that, US$190 Million in Bitcoins disappeared because only he had the passwords to get into the accounts.  Audits have since discovered a bunch of hinky transactions and extravagant purchases for his personal use.