Good Morning Australia!! - Iraq commences the fight to oust the so-called Islamic state from its second largest city - Australia is accused of "torturing" refugees - As Trump sinks, his latest attack on Hillary is lanced and drained by the FBI - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Brief:

The Battle to liberate Mosul from Islamic State has begun.  A million civilians are trapped inside Iraq's second biggest city as Iraqi military and Shiite militias approached from the south.  Kurdish Peshmerga forces have already recaptured villages to the north and east, and gained control of a key supply road.  US war planes are striking IS targets, providing air cover for the advancing forces.  Islamic State has occupied Mosul for two years - giving the terrorist army plenty of time to create a network of tunnels and booby-trapped homes and buildings, not to mention the potential of using civilians as human shields.  Officials caution this battle could last for weeks.

Russia and Syria are pausing their bombing campaign in the rebel-held city of Aleppo after the deaths of 36 people in the most recent wave.  This includes several children and 14 members of a single family.  The US is asking combatants to observe weekly 48-hour cease-fires to allow humanitarian relief into the city's besieged eastern districts, but Russian and Syrian forces have only escalated their aerial and ground assault.

Australia's policy of forcing refugees into indefinite detention in Nauru is a violation of their human rights, and may amount to torture - a clear violation of international law.  Amnesty International interviewed refugees and whistle-blowers from companies contracted to run the asylum centers to produce its new report "Island of Despair", which accuses Australia of deliberately inflicting suffering on refugees.  "Essentially they have chosen to treat women, men and children with unspeakable cruelty on Nauru as a way to implement a policy designed to prevent boats arriving in Australia,' said Amnesty's Audrey Gaughran.  "It is an open prison and they can not leave.  We have documented cases of physical assault, cases of sexual assault, cases of people who are ill but cannot appear to get the right kinds of treatment," she added.  The government denies the allegations.

71-years after it should have happened, Austria is finally going to tear down the house in which Adolph Hitler was born.  The reason is to stop neo-nazis from congregating there.  "The Hitler house will be torn down.  The foundations can remain but a new building will be erected.  It will be be used by either a charity or the local authorities," said Interior Minister Wolfgang Sobotka to Austrian newspaper Die Presse.  No, history won't be erased because a moldy old rat trap built in the 1800's is being torn down - that why we have BOOKS.

There is outrage in Bosnia after the election of a Serb as mayor of Srebrenica, site of the 1995 Srebrenica Massacre of 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys.  Mladen Grujicic acknowledges the killings took place, but refuses to call it a genocide as it has been deemed by no fewer than two international courts.  Srebrenica had a Muslim majority before the atrocity, but is now 55 percent Serb - about the same percentage as Grujicic's winning vote total. 

Donald Trump is now down twelve points beneath Democratic Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton in the latest Monmouth University poll.  That's a wider gap than the same survey showed three weeks ago, with an eight point advantage for Clinton.  This poll is the first to be conducted entirely after the release of a TV show production video showing Trump bragging about getting away with sexually assaulting women and women stepping forward to accuse Trump of the very thing he bragged about.  The poll shows 62 percent of voters believe the allegations against Trump are credible while 58 percent said they were not surprised by what they heard Trump say on the recording.

The US FBI is denying there is any Quid Pro Quo in a fight between the Bureau and State Department over the classification level of an email on Hillary Clinton's private server.  This denial comes as Republicans and the failing campaign of fascist demagogue Donald Trump willfully misinterpret new documents contain a summary of interview notes related to the FBI's investigation that has since determined that no classified information was improperly handled while Mrs. Clinton was Secretary of State.

Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton is expanding her campaign into states that were once beleived to be safe Republican territory.  The Democrats will put millions into advertising, voter registration, and early voting in Arizona and Georgia, as well as Indiana and Missouri.  "Donald Trump is becoming more unhinged by the day, and that is increasing prospects for Democrats further down the ballot," said Hillary's campaign manager Robby Mook, who is predicting record turnout nationally, citing registration and early-voting data that exceed 2012 trends.

At the beginning of this month, Steven Woolfe was a shoe-in to become leader of the anti-immigration UKIP party.  Today, he's quit the party he now calls "rotten", and has filed as assault charge against UKIP minister Hookem, over a fracas at a meeting of UKIP European parliamentarians at the bloc's legislature in Strasbourg, France on 6 October.  Woolfe, who was photographed sprawled out on the floor shortly after said he had suffered "two seizures, partial paralysis and loss of feeling in my face and body".  Hookem denies the assault.

China launched a pair of astronauts into space for a 30-day mission aboard the experimental Tiangong 2 space lab.  Observers believe this and other recent Chinese space missions are precursors to an eventual moon shot, or even an attempt to go to Mars.