Hello Australia!! - A celebrated teen climate activist takes the fight straight to the UN - Thousands are stranded after the world's oldest travel firm goes belly-up - America's latest far-right terrorist - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

If world leaders were looking for a heartwarming moment or a cute photo-op with Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, the UN Climate Summit in New York City wasn't the place.  The teenager instead excoriated them for failing to take any meaningful action on stopping climate change.  "This is all wrong.  I shouldn't be up here.  I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean, yet you all come to us young people for hope.  How dare you?" she said in her speech, singeing them for the years of stalling and delays while everything climate scientists warned about arrived years early.  "You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words," she charged.  

So, on an abnormally hot and steamy day in late September in New York, Thunberg and 15 other young activists announced that they're suing five of the world's major carbon polluters on the grounds that the countries are violating their rights as children.  Success would force the UN to classify the climate crisis as a children's rights crisis, and compel the five nations - Argentina, Brazil, France, Germany, and Turkey - to work with other nations to create legal targets for reducing carbon emissions.  The current weak sauce agreements have no such requirements written into law.  "Young people above all - young people are providing solutions, insisting on accountability, and demanding urgent action," said UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, "They are right."

Prime Minister Scott Morrison did not attend the emergency climate conference.  Donald Trump wasn't supposed to, but he showed up anyway apparently to make a show out of applauding his new pal Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi while walking out on German Chancellor Angela Merkel.  

And then, Greta got a look at Trump.  

Anyway..

The world's oldest travel firm Thomas Cook collapsed into bankruptcy after 178 years, leaving hundreds of thousands of clients stranded in spots scattered around the globe.  The UK government launched a massive effort named "Operation Matterhorn" to bring 160,000 British travelers back home - but those folks are none too pleased, and neither are the ones making the reverse trip who the UK government is not assisting.  "We booked three weeks ago and paid about 700 Euros.  We've been scammed," complained Ruth Caruana of Malta, trying to get out of the UK.  "If they knew they were going to close down they shouldn't have let us buy the tickets.  We have nowhere to stay now.  I will now try to get another flight, I hope the insurance will cover it."  The company had been showing signs of trouble for years, even while top executives were paying themselves millions of dollars in bonuses.

The US FBI charged a 24-year old Army Soldier with plotting to build bombs to murder Democratic party presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke and members of Antifa, as well as to attack a US news network.  The country's newest far-right accused terrorist Jarrett William Smith apparently had joined the military for training when he couldn't get into one of the fascist militias in Ukraine.  Smith allegedly did his plotting with far right friends on Facebook, as well as undercover FBI agents:  "We can make cell phone IEDs in the style of the (Taliban)," Smith allegedly wrote, "I can teach you that."  Smith faces up to 20 years in prison if found guilty.

At least seven children have died after the Precious Talent Top School in Nairobi, Kenya, a primary school, collapsed just minutes after the start of the classes day on Monday.  The school's headmaster blamed construction on an underground sewer that allegedly weakened the wood-frame structure.  Investigators will also look into the building's construction.

A photojournalist and a security guard were injured when a member of Haiti's Senate opened fire with a handgun outside the legislative building.  Senator Ralph Fethiere claimed he was defending himself from protesters demanding something be done about a fuel shortage.  He hasn't been arrested yet.

Egypt's security forces detained hundreds of people after weekend protests against the increasingly brutal rule of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who has cracked down on pretty much every demonstration of dissent since coming into power.  The protests in Tahrir Square over the weekend were not as large as the previous ones in 2013 that prompted al-Sisi to take control of the country from Egypt's first and thus-far only democratically-elected president Mohammed Morsi of the now-banned Muslim Brotherhood.