Hello Australia!! - Violence rocks Paris for a fourth consecutive weekend - China threatens Canada - People die in a concert stampede - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

A French official says 135 people have been injured and around a thousand have been arrested in the latest Yellow Vest protests, which initially began as a loosely organized movement against rising fuel prices and morphed into expressions of deep discontentment with the reforms of President Emmanuel Macron.  Government ministers claim it has been hijacked by ultra-violent elements, which would seem to be their excuse for using rubber bullets, water cannons, and tear gas on their own people.  Some 8,000 cops matched 8,000 protesters one-to-one and damage to central Paris wasn't as bad as last weekend, but there were still a few burned cars and scooters and other acts of vandalism.

Environmental groups say Poland stopped and deported at least 13 activists who tried to get to the COP24 Global Warming conference in Katowice.  It suggests a blacklist of activists from various groups, because they were stopped individually at different entry points and turned back.  Poland is part of the European Schengen Zone, which supposedly abolished passport and all other types of border control in favor for freedom of movement of people and commerce.  Some were stopped as the came over from Ukraine, which is not part of the Schengen zone, but others came from Belgium and Austria which should not have required a passport check.  We're now in the middle of the two-week COP24 conference in the heart of Poland's southern coal mining region, where officials from almost 200 countries, scientists, and businesses are discussing efforts to tackle global warming - but only some campaign groups are welcome.

China is vowing "severe consequences" against Canada if Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou is not released from a jail in Vancouver, BC.  Canada detained her last week on a US warrant for allegedly violating international trade sanctions against Iran.  In Beijing, China's Vice Foreign Minister Le Yucheng summoned the Canadian ambassador to impress the view that Meng's detention was a "severe violation" of her rights and interests as a Chinese citizen:  "Such a move ignores the law and is unreasonable, unconscionable, and vile in nature," Le as saying in the statement.  As for Meng's deportation hearings, she'll remain in jail in Vancouver for now.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is warning the West that the return of economic sanctions will hamper his country's ability to fight drug smuggling, so enjoy that sudden and massive influx of narcotics.  "Those who do not believe us, it is good to look at the map," Rouhani said, referencing Iran's position as a buffer between Afghanistan - the world's biggest opium producer - and the West and Gulf states.  Until 2016, Iran annually spent some US$2.5 Billion to fight drug trafficking; border guards routinely die in gunfights with traffickers, and traffickers make up about three-quarters of executions in the death penalty state.

The UN keeps trying to warn us about the Yemen Civil War:  "As many as 20 million Yemenis are food insecure in the world's worst humanitarian crisis," read the joint statement by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the children's fund UNICEF, and the World Food Program (WFP).  "Already 15.9 million people wake up hungry."  The proxy war has been running for four years, pitting Iran-backed Houthi rebels against the weak central government, its Saudi backers, and the Western countries selling the arms that kill.  Peace talks are underway in Sweden.

A stampede at a rap concert in central Italy caused a stampede that killed six people, five of them teenagers near Ancona on the Adriatic coast.  Officials say the Lanterna Azzurra nightclub in the town of Corinaldo might have sold 1,300 tickets when the capacity was only 469.

New Zealand will charge a suspect in the murder of a 22-year old British tourist who went missing a week ago.  Searchers still haven't found the body of Grace Millane, but police believe they have enough evidence to show she was killed by a 26-year old man who was seen with her in an Auckland hotel.

Japan's Diet passed legislation opening the doors to more foreign workers to come in and fill critical labor shortages.  The bill was not popular with nationalists, nor with more Left-leaning parties worried about the lack of details and no concrete provisions for worker safety nor to prevent exploitation.  Japan's falling birthrate has left it with an aging population unable to sate the needs of farming, construction, and twelve other sectors covered in the bill.

Thousands of Hungarians filled the streets of Budapest to condemn the conservative government's  proposed new labor law that allows employers to demand up to 400 hours of overtime work per year.  That's 50 days of overtime, and thus critics call it the "slave law".  Laszlo Kordas, president of the Hungarian Trade Union Confederation, told protesters:  "In Hungary, we carry the largest burden on our back and, in return, we get the lowest wage in Europe." 

When Kobe, Japan turns on the Christmas Lights, it doesn't mess around!