Hello Australia!! - Millions march with Greta Thunberg - Democrats speed up the impeachment drive - The Kremlin sends a message to Trump - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs: 

Half a million people joined climate activist Greta Thunberg at a rally in Montreal, Canada, the main event in a second wave of protests in which millions marched out of school or work to protest governments' lack of action in stopping global warming.  She urged activists to maintain the pressure: "Some would say we are wasting lesson time, we say we are changing the world so that when we are older we will be able to look our children in the eyes and say we did everything that we could," the Swedish teen told the crowd, "We have been told so many times that there is no point in doing this, that we can't have an impact and make a difference.  But I think we have proven that to be wrong by now.  We are the change and change is coming."  Demonstrations also took place in: Wellington, NZ; Taiwan; Seoul, South Korea; Bangladesh, New Delhi, India; Arusha, Tanzania; Vienna, Austria; Naples and Turin, Italy; Stockholm, Sweden; Madrid, Spain; Washington, DC; Rapa Nui, Chile; and many other cities.  Globally, at least 6.6 million people took part.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was slapped with a subpoena from three Congressional committees demanding documents related to the growing Ukraine scandal involving President Donald Trump urging the country to manufacture an investigation into his political rival former Vice President Joe Biden and Biden's son.  "The Committees are investigating the extent to which President Trump jeopardized national security by pressing Ukraine to interfere with our 2020 election and by withholding security assistance provided by Congress to help Ukraine counter Russian aggression," the chairmen wrote, "Your failure or refusal to comply with the subpoena shall constitute evidence of obstruction of the House’s impeachment inquiry."  The Committees are controlled by Democrats, who are moving quickly to schedule testimony from five State Department officials over the next two weeks.  

A Kremlin spokesman expressed Russia's hopes that the White House wouldn't reveal private conversations between the two nations' presidents, like it did with Ukraine.  "We would like to hope that it wouldn't come to that in our relations, which are already troubled by a lot of problems," said Dmitri Peskov, who speaks for Vladimir Putin, "The materials related to conversations between heads of states are usually classified according to normal international practice."  Other Russian commentators have been calling for more Trump conversations to be leaked or released, mainly because of the way he criticizes Western leaders like German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron (his allies).

Senior police officials in the UK are warning that the incendiary language being used by Prime Minister Boris Johnson and others about the Brexit is threatening public safety.  There have been a few incidents including bricks being thrown through windows with anti-Brexit posters, people sending death threats to MPs, and at least one case of a man arrested for trying to kick in a political office door while the staff hunkered inside.  Chiefs warn that they are having to increase security for MPs as pro-Brexit rhetoric gets worse.

Police in Nigeria freed 300 men and boys held captive at an Islamic School in the northern city of Kaduna, most of the victims literally kept in chains.  They also arrested seven teachers and staff at the school.  Local media reported the captives had been tortured, starved, forced to beg on the streets, and sexually abused.  President Muhammadu Buhari - himself a Muslim - had earlier announced plans to gradually shut Islamic boarding schools, and it's not clear if this will accelerate the process.

Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan warned of bloodshed and possible nuclear war in its dispute with India over the Kashmir region.  Yikes.