Good Morning Australia!! - Australia's leadership battle comes to a head today - A close confidant of Donald Trump is compelled to give evidence to prosecutors - A police employee is linked to a racist far right group - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

Malcolm Turnbull is likely to step down as leader of the Liberals and as Prime Minister of Australia today.  Ex-Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton will mount his second challenge today, but Malcolm won't contest another spill and Dutton will find himself up against Scott Morrison.  And where has Julie Bishop been during all this drama?  Hmmmmm.  Well, even if Peter Dutton were to succeed in taking over the Liberals, he will instantly alienate quite a few voters.  A Roy Morgan poll from earlier this week found that voters prefer Labor's Bill Shorten as PM over Dutton - not just in Sydney and Melbourne, but in Dutton's home state of Queensland where Mr. Shorten's advantage is a considerable 53 to 40 percent.  So, polish your voting shoes Australia, because this thing isn't going to be resolved in the party room.

US Federal prosecutors granted immunity to the boss of the National Enquirer tabloid, in the investigation into hush money payments made to two women who claimed to have affairs with Donald Trump.  David Pecker is Trump's longtime friend who bought the rights to the stories of two adult entertainers who said they had affairs with Trump, but ensured that the stories wouldn't be published, an operation called "catch and kill".  Trump's former personal attorney Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to reimbursing Pecker out of Trump's campaign cash, which is really, really illegal.  The immunity deal compels Mr. Pecker to give information to prosecutors investigating corruption swirling around Trump because it eliminates the risk of self-incrimination. 

Trump claimed that if he is impeached the stock market would crash, and his current lawyer Rudy Giuliani claimed the people would revolt.  Neither fantasy is even remotely true, but it shows where their heads are at:  Expecting impeachment.

The second US Congressman to back Trump's 2016 presidential campaign pleaded not guilty to looting $250,000 from his campaign fund to pay for personal expenses such as lavish vacations and luxury goods.  However, Southern California Congressman Duncan Hunter did step down from his influential committee assignments, a day after defying House republican leadership to resign from the posts.  He remains in office and his district is so reliably Republican that it is conceivable that he could be reelected, even under a legal cloud.  The first US Congressman to endorse Trump in 2016 was western New York state's Rep. Chris Collins, who was indicted on insider trading charges this month.

South Africa is accusing Trump of trying to sow division after his tweet referring to the "large-scale killing of farmers".  Although crime is a terrible problem in South Africa, rural murders are at a 20-year low and thare's no evidence that farmers are being targeted more often than other South Africans.  But Trump also asked Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to investigate the matter of "seizing land from white farmers"; South Africa recently passed legislation to speed up the redistribution of land (whites make up nine percent of the population but own 75 percent of the farms).  Since the end of Apartheid, South African hasn't taken any land from white farmers and President Cyril Ramaphosa says there are no plans to do so.

Argentine police raided the home of former president Cristina Fernandez Kirtchner (CFK), as part of an investigation into alleged corruption.  But CFK had nothing to hide, because she was one of the 67 sitting senators who approved the raids.  It's also unclear what investigators hoped to find as they searched in an apartment located in the Argentine capital with the assistance of a K-9 unit.  Fernandez's senatorial seat gives her immunity from prosecution.  CFK denies any wrongdoing and says the raids are political persecution by her conservative successor, President Mauricio Macri, to distract Argentines from the economic turmoil caused by his failed and failing neo-liberal economic hijinx.

Germans are outraged after a far-right protester who who targeted a German TV crew was exposed as an off-duty police employee.  The anti-Islam group Pegida was protesting Chancellor Angela Merkel's appearance in Dresden, chanting "Merkel must go" and "lugenpresse", the latter being a German language slogan first used by nazis meaning "lying press".  One of the protesters had police detain a news crew for 45 minutes, leading to the discovery of his day job.  Wolfgang Kubicki of the FDP party that man should be fired because being the member of a far right movement is incompatible with working for the cops.