Good Morning Australia!! - As soon as a light of hope appears in Aleppo, someone extinguishes it - Gunmen trap tourists in an ancient castle - Behold, the mighty Orca as you rarely get to see it - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

Evacuations from Aleppo are off again, after attackers torched two buses ferrying the sick and wounded out of the besieged city in northern Syria.  These buses had set off from an area loyal to the Syrian government and were intercepted in a village controlled by a jihadist faction, Jund al-Aqsa.  As many as 80,000 people have left east Aleppo in recent days, most going to government-controlled areas but others fleeing to rebel territory.  Opposition fighters were the first to exit, leaving abused civilians with the sense of being abandoned by all sides.

Jordanian security forces are trying to free tourists trapped in a medieval castle in the city of Karak where armed men who killed nine people took shelter after running gun battles in the city streets.  The dead include five police, three civilians, and one tourist from Canada.  It's reported that the people in the castle aren't necessarily hostages, and are hiding in another part of the castle from the gunmen, who are believed to be Islamist militants.

A suicide bomber from the so-called Islamic State killed at least 48 people in the southern Yemen port city of Aden, targeting government soldiers queued up for payday. 

The head of Indonesia's Air Force suspects bad weather was behind the crash of a C-130 transport plane in a remote part of Papua that killed all on board, including three pilots and ten other military personnel. 

They're not giving up, Poles came out for a third day of protests against the extreme right wing government's plans to reduce press freedom.  The opposition says the governing Law and Justice (PiS) party is trying to stifle press freedom with its plans to limit the number of reporters allowed to cover parliament.  The government is seeking a compromise (instead of just respecting freedom of the press).

Thousands marched through Madrid, Spain, demanding an increase in salaries and pensions and a rollback of austerity measures that have worsened poverty and inequality.  The demonstration, and several smaller ones scattered throughout the austerity-strangled country, were backed by both the PSOE (Socialists) and the Left-wing Podemos Party - who could have actually formed a ruling coalition to stop the endless, crippling, gouging damage of austerity if the Left could just freaking stop internal rivalries.  Instead, Spain is ruled by conservatives backed by only a third of voters.

Venezuela's government is delaying plans to scrap the 100 Bolivar bank note.  Violence and looting had broken out as thousands queued up in slow moving lines to replace the currency, which the government wants to dump in order to fight smugglers.  President Nicolas Maduro accuses the US of extracting truckloads of the note out of the economy and hoarding them in warehouses in Colombia.  The problem is compounded by the late arrival of 500 Bolivar notes to replace the old paper.

A drone pilot in California recorded some killer nature footage:  A mother Orca teaching two calves how to hunt, with a shark as the unfortunate lesson.  Slater Moore was aboard a whale watching vessel in Monterey Bay, and caught the rarely seen spectacle.  The Seven Gill Shark is common off of California, but the Offshore Killer Whale spends most of its time holding its breath in deep water - so scientists rarely get this good of a look at its hunting and feeding practices.

Christmas in Bavaria!  Which is just an excuse for Pagan Cos-Play in other parts of Germany.  At least it will be a Merry Fishmas in South Korea and France.