Hello Australia!! - Trump gets a taste of US Checks and Balances - The people win a big one in Romania - New concerns as Fukushima is releasing "unimaginable" amounts of radiation again - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

Radiation levels at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor have soared to "unimaginable" proportions, according to the Tokyo Electric Power Company's (TEPCO) scientists.  This is the highest since the 2011 disaster when three reactor cores didn't just melt-down, they melted through their containment vessels and the floor.  The radiation level inside reactor #2's containment vessel is 530 sieverts-per-hour - instant death for any form of life; and far, far beyond the 73 sieverts-per-hour recorded immediately after the disaster.  TEPCO is giving itself a 30 percent window for margin of error - meaning 370 (still instant death) to 690 sieverts-per-hour.  That's even greater than the radiation release recorded after the Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine.

Massive and sustained street protests have forced the government of Romania to scrap a plan to decriminalize some corruption offenses, and to release convicted politicians from jail in the guise of "easing overcrowding".  "I do not want to divide Romania. It can't be divided in two," said Prime Minister Sorin Grindeanu in a televised address.  For five consecutive days, tens of thousands of people brought Bucharest to a standstill, refusing to yield until the suspect law was defeated.  Kind of makes you wonder what would happen if people in certain other countries were to ever wake the f__k up.

Libya has intercepted more than 400 would be migrants before they could make the perilous and oft-deadly Mediterranean crossing to Europe.  "The illegal migrants are from various sub-Saharan countries and include a big number of women and children," said Coast Guard General Ayoub Qassem.  "Smugglers had tried to foil the process of arrest by opening fire on our coastguards but the coastguards fired back and that forced the smugglers to withdraw," he added.  This comes days after Italy announced a deal with Libya, and after Friday's European Union meeting on Malta dealing with the refugee crisis.  More than 4,500 people died trying to cross the sea last year.

The US State Department is allowing people from seven banned Muslim countries to enter the US, after a Federal Judge in Seattle temporarily blocked enforcement of Donald Trump's bigoted immigration ban (which is still inspiring protests across the world).  Immigration advocates are urging people from those countries to get onto planes as soon as possible, as the US Justice Department plans to challenge the ruling.  Judge James Robart, promoted to the federal bench by then-President George W. Bush in 2004, ordered the stay in response to a broad legal challenge to Trump's order brought by the states of Washington and Minnesota; they alleged trump's order was "separating families, harming thousands of the States' residents, damaging the States' economies, hurting State-based companies, and undermining both States' sovereign interest in remaining a welcoming place for immigrants and refugees". 

It's called the system of Checks and Balances, and it's designed to make sure that the three branches of the US government - Executive, Legislative, and Judicial - don't try to overpower each other.

Donald Trump is the sole beneficiary of the trust that was supposed to have separated him from his business interests before he moved into the White House to avoid conflicts of interest.  Not only that, but newly released documents uncovered by the journalism group ProPublica show that Trump retains the legal power to revoke the trust at any time.  So, remember that vulgar and poorly stage-managed news conference staged in the lobby of Trump tower to show a pile of purported documents that cleared up any conflict of interest between Trump's personal business and the workings of the US government?  It was bullshyte. 

First lady-daughter (eeewwww) Ivanka hasn't quit her family business ties as promised, either.  And son Eric Trump blew through US$100,000 in tax payer money to have the Secret Service secure his business trip to the Punta Del este resort in Uruguay, spitting on past promises to keep the Trump family's business and government interest separate.  Despite the use of public funds, the White House and the Trump business refused to provide key details connected to the trip.

The cover art on the latest edition of the influential German news magazine Der Spiegel features Trump as a sort of "Jihadi Don" beheading the Statue of Liberty.