bolton: the i.c.c. prosecutor has asked to investigate these americans for alleged abuse, perhaps more, an utterly unfounded and unjustified investigation. today, on the eve of september 11, i wanted to deliver a clear and unambiguous message on behalf of the president of the united states. the united states will use any means necessary to protect our citizens and those of our allies from unjust prosecution by this illegitimate court. we will not cooperate with the icc. we will provide no assistance to the icc. and we certainly will not join the icc. [applause] amb. bolton: we will let the icc die on its own. after all, for all intents and purposes, the icc is already dead to us. the united states races this -- bases this policy on five principal concerns about the s purported authority and its effectiveness. first, the international criminal court unacceptably threatens american sovereignty in u.s. national security interests. the prosecutor claims essentially unfettered discretion to investigate, char

bolton: right. well, on the second point, as i said, the court itself has informed us that the prosecutor has requested the court, part of the problem not having separation of powers -- to open a formal investigation. we just wanted to make it clear to the i.c.c. how we feel about hat which is not much. [laughter] mr. bolton: especially after eight years after the obama administration. so that really is what dictated the timing here. although it's no coincidence tomorrow is september 11, which is how this conflict in afghanistan for us started. you know, there was a time -- and i think it's likely to come again, when a lot of countries thought by adopting what they called universal jurisdiction statutes they could prosecute pretty much anybody they wanted any time. belgium, for example, 20 or so years ago passed such a universal jurisdiction statute and they were going to serve a warrant, as i recall, on secretary of defense rumsfeld when he showed up -- in brussels for a nato conference and he remi

committee as john bolton said that the united states is not part of the i.c.c. they didn't sign on to the rome statute so when they talk about sanctions against the i.c.c. what exactly do they mean. well it has a very specific definition and with regard to that it would mean essentially that individuals could face sanctioning by the united states that could mean prosecution under the u.s. criminal justice system it could mean banning entry into the united states so it's it's sort of got a multi-pronged effect sensually this is we should point out for anyone who wonders who the society is that john bolton is speaking before it's very conservative the federalist is very conservative audience so when he made this announcement you heard the applause there there was also applause with the announcement of the closure of the palestinian liberation organization office here in washington d.c. essentially that acts as a mission advocates for palestinian interests and essentially the reason for this closure it is something that the united states has threat for some time an

i c c did not react to following john bolton speech but when x. excerpts of his speech were released by the media they did send us a statement now in their statement of the courts of mentions that it benefits from the membership of of some one hundred fifty parties from from across the world trying really to defend its credibility even though the united states is not a member of the court also in that statement the i.c.c. saying that it will continue its mandate to carry out what it calls in the pen with an impartial investigations almost trying to say that it's not going to pick and choose court cases and that if it wants to try the afghan case it will so it use the pla matic language unlike the language used by bolton but at the end of the day without the political will of countries the i.c.c. cannot function we did speak to human rights defenders as well as former prosecutors and they're saying that the united states acts as if it is above the law that oh yes the nationals of every country can be tried apart from u.s. nationals and that the uni

i c c did not react to following john bolton speech but when x. excerpts of his speech were released by the media they did send us a statement now in their statement of the courts of mentions that it benefits from the membership of of some one hundred fifty parties from from across the world trying really to defend its credibility even though the united states is not a member of the court also in that statement the i.c.c. saying that it will continue its mandate to carry out what it calls in the pen with an impartial investigations almost trying to say that it's not going to pick and choose court cases and that if it wants to try the afghan case it will so it use the pla matic language unlike the language used by bolton but at the end of the day without the political will of countries the i.c.c. cannot function we did speak to human rights defenders as well as former prosecutors and they're saying that the united states acts as if it is above the law that oh yes the nationals of every country can be tried apart from u.s. nationals and that the uni

i c c did not react to following john bolton speech but when x. excerpts of his speech were released by the media they did send us a statement now in their statement of the courts of mentions that it benefits from the membership of of some one hundred fifty parties from from across the world trying really to defend its credibility even though the united states is not a member of the court also in that statement the i.c.c. saying that it will continue its mandate to carry out what it calls in the pen with an impartial investigations almost trying to say that it's not going to pick and choose court cases and that if it wants to try the afghan case it will so it use the pla matic language unlike the language used by bolton but at the end of the day without the political will of countries the i.c.c. cannot function we did speak to human rights defenders as well as former prosecutors and they're saying that the united states acts as if it is above the law that oh yes the nationals of every country can be tried apart from u.s. nationals and that the uni

the government of iran and bolton is in talking similar saying similar things. you know it's interesting because refugees have been you as political pawns in the syrian conflict with world leaders going so far as to ban them from entering you know their nations including the trump administration here in the united states even bashar al assad confirmed the yahoo news last year that terrorists were hiding themselves amongst the refugees despite that no syrian refugee has committed in the act of terror in the united states michael how are refugees and weapons sales used to further political reform in countries like syria and is it a dangerous game to do so and to play this this game with these refugees while the refugees are as you say just pawns they are. they they are the from. an excuse for the united states to try and use more of a humanitarian argument to be in places such as syria and elsewhere in the middle east but make no mistake the united states has lost tremendous influence since the arab spring and it's trying to regain its influence back there again a

die on its own bolton said the u.s. very angry about a request to investigate members of the u.s. central intelligence agency and the u.s. armed forces the torture and the crimes allegedly committed in afghanistan also john bolton confirming the closure of the palestine liberation organization is office in washington d.c. this after they called for an inquiry they attempted to prompt an inquiry an i.c.c. inquiry into israel so i'm going to bring you much more on that and everything else we're going to have reaction from washington and of course you can also get the latest on our web site al jazeera dot com for all of his comments analysis and video on demand don't forget the you can watch us live there as well the news continues in just a couple of minutes time stay with al-jazeera. in germany's capital there is a barber like no other what it is a hard. core struck cross what you are. but as his city changes he's moving with the time. and going on the roads. the stories we don't often hear told by the people who live there. the master barber of berlin this is europe on al-jazeera.

i c c did not react to following john bolton speech but when x. excerpts of his speech were released by the media they did send us a statement now in that statement of the courts that mentions that it benefits from the membership of some one hundred fifty parties from from across the world trying really to defend its credibility even though the united states is not a member of the court also in that statement the i.c.c. saying that it will continue its mandate to carry out what it calls in the pen with an impartial investigations almost trying to say that it's not going to pick and choose court cases and that if it wants to try the afghan case it will. the u.n. says more than thirty thousand people have been displaced by fighting in syria's last major rebel held province of idlib government and allied russian forces have increased their bombardment in the past week with aid groups worried for the safety of the three million people trapped there stephanie decker has the latest now from antakya which is close to the border with syria. there's a huge

so john bolton basically is the same john bolton he was in the bush administration.e made destroying the court a lifetime project and goal. the difference now, he is in this place where he can do more than what he was doing in the bush years. it is a very dangerousus attackn the international body where 1 3 countries are members, many of them are close u u.s. allies, particularly in europe, that is this body andfend yet we see john bolton perhaps wants to score points with the political base, people supporting trump in the u.s., by invoking distorted and misinformation about the fact the court is likely to investigate crimes that actually do not exist under the law of the icc. -- at the very tipping point or the administration is basically saying, we're going to have a frontal attack on judges and prosecutors -- by the way, there is no legal theory to support that. i don't understand what it is, how it is that they would be prosecuting judges for the mere doing their job and responsibility under international treaty that is recognized, again, and ratified by 1 120 th

i c c did not react to following john bolton speech but when x. excerpts of his speech were released by the media they did send us a statement now in their statement of the courts of mentions that it benefits from the membership of of some one hundred fifty parties from from across the world trying really to defend its credibility even though the united states is not a member of the court also in that statement the i.c.c. saying that it will continue its mandate to carry out what it calls in the pen with an impartial investigations almost trying to say that it's not going to pick and choose court cases and that if it wants to try the afghan case it will so it use the pla matic language unlike the language used by bolton but at the end of the day without the political will of countries the i.c.c. cannot function we did speak to human rights defenders as well as former prosecutors and they're saying that the united states acts as if it is above the law that oh yes the nationals of every country can be tried apart from u.s. nationals and that the uni

because it was very direct language being used there by john bolton. well john bull and started off declaring it illegitimate and then announced that the us would henceforth be rejecting international oversight to protect itself from war crimes investigations and even promise to punish those that operate with these investigations according to bolton international law threatens us sovereignty as some believe that this is a statement that the us wants to protect itself and secure its right to invade other countries overseas but that's just what other people said now bull and also seem to be justifying future acts of us aggression saying quote history is prob proven that the only deterrent to evil in atrocity is what franklin roosevelt once called the righteous might of the united states and its allies now if he even attempted to legitimize past acts of u.s. aggression using the examples of the military raid to kill osama bin ladin and a recent airstrikes against the syrian government which both baucus on and syria viewed as a violations of national sover

bible i want to ask first what brought this on why did bolton in the white house choose this week in particular to suddenly lash out at the criminal at the international criminal court. well as far as the timing goes i mean i think bolton themself referred to the fact as you alluded to in the open that they're planning on opening an investigation into alleged abuses by the united states in afghanistan and getting involved in the israeli palestinian conflict and you know why bolton chose this week i'm not one hundred percent sure but look you know the the court said that was formed in rome well guess who didn't sign on to it in rome among the countries who are not signed onto it the united states china russia right there you've got yourself a problem and israel is not a member of it either don't forget john bolton was the u.n. ambassador for a time under george w. bush this rome. declaration which the u.s. did not sign onto was in two thousand and two under george w. bush who really wanted nothing to do with this court it wasn't until barack obama came around that he cozied up to them

a white house correspondent kimberly halkett has more on the reaction to bolton speech. well as you heard in the. clip there the audience itself was very much encouraged by what john bolton had to say it's the federal society's particularly conservative group it very much it here is to the principles of the u.s. constitution and that was one of the major points of contention made by john bolton with regard to the international criminal court that basically it undermines u.s. sovereignty in the u.s. constitution that mandates a separation of powers a check on powers in stead he says that essentially it has broad sweeping powers and as a result the u.s. cannot recognize it does not recognize it but also painted a picture of the i.c.c. as being somewhat ineffectual in terms of the fact that it has in the words of john bolton one point five billion dollars but just secured eight convictions so essentially undermining it but particularly concerned about the fact that there is now this concern that if it takes action against the united states by potentially prosecuting u.s. so

international law threatens us sovereignty bolton also seem to be justifying future acts of u.s. aggression saying that quote history has proven that the only deterrent to evil an atrocity is what f.d.r. once called the righteous might of the united states and its allies now he even attempted to legitimize past acts of u.s. aggression using the examples of the military raid to kill osama bin ladin and recent airstrikes against the syrian government which both baucus. am syria viewed as violations of national sovereignty bolton also gave many special shout outs to its quote friend and ally pledging to protect israel from international probes as well saying that it's unacceptable to investigate the actions of such a quote liberal democratic nation and here's the icing on the cake bolton also announced the closure of the office of the palestinian liberation organization in d.c. amnesty international has already chimed in and has called on the u.s. to support not impede i.c.c. investigations saying quote resuming attacks against the court sends a dangerous signal that the us is hosti

bolton: we will let the icc die on its own. for all intents and purposes, the icc is already dead to us. the united states races this -- bases this policy on five principal concerns about the court or purported authority and its effectiveness. first, the international criminal court unacceptably threatens american sovereignty and u.s. national security interests. the prosecutor in the hague claims essentially unfettered discretion to investigate, charge, and prosecute individuals regardless of whether their countries have exceeded the rome statute. the court in no way derives these powers from any of the parties. instead, it is an unprecedented effort to vest power in a suture met -- supernatural body without the consent of nationstates or the individuals over which it points to exert jurisdiction. it certainly has no consent whatever from the united states. as americans, we fully understand that consent to the government is a prerequisite to true legitimacy. we reject such a flagrant violation of our national sovereignty. to m

national security adviser john bolton says i.c.c. judges in officials would be slapped with financial and criminal charges if they try to charge americans accused of war crimes in afghanistan bolton also confirm the trunk of ministration will close palestine's diplomatic mission in washington we will not cooperate with the i.c.c. we will provide no assistance to the i.c.c. and we certainly will join the i.c.c. . we will let the i.c.c. die on its own after all for all intents and purposes the i.c.c. is already dead. in our other top stories the un is saying more than thirty thousand people have been displaced by fighting in syria's last major rebel held province in the north government and allied russian forces of increase that bombardment of it live in the past few days as well as parts of adjacent hama a group say they are deeply concerned about a potential humanitarian crisis in the region. at least six people have been killed and another sixteen injured in a car bomb explosion in somalia's capital mogadishu a car rammed into a loc

i c c did not react to following john bolton speech but when x. excerpts of his speech were released by the media they did send us a statement now in their statement of the courts of mentions that it benefits from the membership of of some one hundred fifty parties from from across the world trying really to defend its credibility even though the united states is not a member of the court also in that statement the i.c.c. saying that it will continue its mandate to carry out what it calls in the pen with an impartial investigations almost trying to say that it's not going to pick and choose court cases and that if it wants to try the afghan case it will so it use the pla matic language unlike the language used by bolton but at the end of the day without the political will of countries the i.c.c. cannot function we did speak to human rights defenders as well as former prosecutors and they're saying that the united states acts as if it is above the law that oh yes the nationals of every country can be tried apart from u.s. nationals and that the uni

white house has long been threatening and now it appears that the national security adviser john bolton will may be making good on that threat the second point and it is related is the fact that the united states is going to potentially announce that there will be potential criminal sanctions against members of the international criminal court why are these two related well it goes back to november of last year when the palestinian authority president mahmoud abbas went to the international criminal court requesting in fact that there be an investigation and prosecution of israeli officials for its actions and conduct and that is when the united states began to threaten that it would close the mission if it followed through on that and now we see that potentially happening according to excerpts of the speech that is exactly what the national security advisor john bolton will say so what this is is a major escalation by the united states this many are interpreted as an effort to kind of pressure the palestinians to reignite stalled peace talks but given the u.s. actions not only the ones

choose to move forward with the probe in the speech bolton spoke quite a bit about sovereignty which is interesting to say the very least given the history of how much the u.s. has value the sovereignty of other nations check it out do i think the united states is a threat to other nations sovereignty and the constitution yes no i don't think we're a threat to anybody else to sovereignty i think i think it has been so important for the united states to appreciate the significance of a government that has the consent of its own people think we're very conscious of the importance of sovereignty we can't and don't attempt to control what other nations do and by the way this is coming from someone who has no regrets over the iraq invasion so that's also something to think about bolton also seemed to be justifying future acts of u.s. aggression saying that quote history has proven that the only deterrent to evil an atrocity is what f.d.r. once called the righteous might of the united states and its allies now he even attempted to lead. demised past acts of u.s. aggression using the exampl

laura: why is john bolton going after the international criminal court so hard? is it to do with protecting u.s. soldiers in afghanistan? barbara: john bolton has always been probably the strongest critic of the international criminal court in america. he really sees it as a threat to american sovereignty. w he is, yes, facing his worst nightmare, the possibility that american citizens could be prosecuted by the court for activities in afghanistan, because the icc prosecutor asked prmission to investigate potential war crimes. you see john bolton coming out full throttle in the fight back, saying that th is not going to happen, we are going to take action, if they try to do that, icc personnel will face sanctions and travel bans and perhaps criminal charges in u.s. court. ry strong stuff. laura: on the bigger picture, doesn't the trump administration still have a middle east peaceve plan it may ? barbara: it keeps saying that it will. it says it has a detailed plan it wants to put forward. officials say the israelis won't like some of it, palestinians won't like

that is bolton's philosophy.th korea, and frankly sou korean officials say that is not how it should work. takell take steps if you steps that is what the koreans said, that is not a philosophy john bolton adheres to. >> woodruff: nic skchifrin, we thank you. >> thank you. >> woodruff: this week marks the last week of primary voting before the midterm elections. it comes on the heels of former president obama making his presence felt on the campaign. lisa desjardins is here for this week's politics monday. >> desjardins: the early rounds are ending. it's a good time to get ready for the finals of this key midterm year. csand a good time for poli monday. here to bring us up to speed: hiawna thomas, d.c. bureauef of vice news. and amy walter of the "cook political report." thank you, let's just jump right into where we are. we have new york gualernato primary on thursday. we've got tomorrow, delaware and new hampshire which is strangely the last primary in the nation, i guess they could say now. but let's go big, w

yes harsh language from john bolton the i.c.c. did not react after the speech but they did read the excerpts of that speech which was leaked to the media and we reached out to officials and the i.c.c. in the statement that they gave really they used diplomatic language in one way or another trying to dismiss really the importance of the united states when they say the court benefits from the membership of one hundred twenty three parties representing all regions of the world so dismissing the fact that the united states is not a member of this organization also in that statement the i.c.c. statement they remain committed quote to independent import impartial exercise of our mandate saying really we're not going to pick and choose which cases we are going to try but what is not clear is will the i.c.c. pursue you know trying the u.s. military and u.s. intelligence service men in afghanistan for alleged war crimes because we know that when the poor prosecutor formally requested this this is really what angered the united states they

and uncompromising message from john bolton.sage from john bolton. if the court comes asked us and israel are other allies we will not sit quietly. we will take steps under the american service protection act and other legal authorities. we will negotiate even more banding bilateral agreements. negotiate even more banding bilateralagreements. —— negotiate even more banding bilateral agreements. —— binding bilateral agreements. —— binding bilateral agreements. —— binding bilateral agreements. will ensure those who have already entered either honoured by a counterpart governments. we will respond against the icc and its personnel to be spent permitted by us law. —— extent. we will ban isjudges spent permitted by us law. —— extent. we will ban is judges and prosecutors from entering the united states and will sanction their funds in the us financial system and will prosecute them in the us particle system. we will do the same for any company a state that insists an icc investigation of americans. we will ta ke investigation of amer

to an agreement with the united states and here once again after all trump spoke we had both john bolton and mike compares speak to a group that's alone lobbied for conflict with iran this is the sort of group neo con group extreme right wing groups other things iran was connected to nine eleven with the evidence so this was was showing that spin to the administration was almost speak to analysts who remembered comes to mind who has connections with the trumpet ministration who says this actually does reflect a debate within the administration but the thought of things that bolton pump air was saying very different i think they really wanted anything other than regime change to ruin his speech said it's ironic that the u.s. government doesn't even conceal its plan for overthrowing the same government it invites to talks so look i mean this is a taste of the sort of rhetoric that we saw bolton pompei or given this out this meeting and really i mean that the audience lapped it up because exactly what they wanted to hear. according to the mullahs in tehran we are the great satan lord of the

and its new round of sanctions in november and both pompei and bolton saying this is a terrible idea both and they're being very withering about the fact that there's no timeframe there's no detail really has been explained by the u.s. or how this is actually going to work nonetheless the e.u. and its partners in the deal say they are going to move ahead with this mechanism. the e.u. was reported to have been discussing what it calls a special purpose of burchell for several weeks and monday night the e.u. foreign policy chief said it would be going ahead e.u. member states will set up a legal entity to facilitate legit to make financial transactions with iran and this will allow european companies to continue to trade with get on in accordance with european union low and could be open to other partners in the what the plans discussed in the past have involved an entity being set up to act as a go between or clearing house between iran and other nations to facilitate commercial transactions for example if a country or company wants to buy iranian oil it would send money to or perhaps

sovereignty on monday bolton called for criminal sanctions against the i.c.c. if it moves ahead with investigating allegations of us work crimes in afghanistan those sanctions could even include blocking i.c.c. judges from entering the united states the united states will use any means necessary to protect our citizens and those of our allies from unjust prosecution by this illegitimate court senior palestinian officials are enraged by the u.s. announcement following similar announcements of cuts to palestinian aid the move of the us embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem and its blind to ongoing israeli settlement expansion on disputed land this is an administrative mission of this administration is that to diminish and. its policies of blackmail and extortion. undermining the peace process and. the palestinian mission opened in nine hundred ninety four here in washington and palestinian leaders have long held that any closure of this office would undermine peace efforts despite ignoring these warnings the trumpet ministration says it's still committed to peace an

. >> and bolton is not taking any prisoners. >> we won't cooperate with the icc. we will let them die on its own. it's already dead to us. >> he didn't stop there. showing the u.s. is not afraid to flex more than one foreign policy at a time. next up the palestinian liberation organization. >> we will close their offense here in washington, d.c. >> the state department explained the decision saying the plo condemned a u.s. peace plan they haven't seen. bolton made it clear when it comes to the israeli and palestinian conflict the trump administration is taking sides. >> the united states will always stand with our friend and ally israel. >> the palestinians are punching back calling on the icc to open an investigation into israel saying the rights of the palestinian people are not for sale. we won't succumb to u.s. threats and bullying and we will continue our struggle for freedom. bolton had words of warning for the icc about the war in afghanistan. threatening u.s. sanctions against their judges should they launch an investigation into what say are war crimes. t

bolton also confirmed the u.s. is closing diplomatic mission and washington a white house correspondent kimberly reports from washington. protests in the west bank as news filtered out washington was making good on its threat national security advisor john bolton made it official the u.s. is closing the washington office of the palestine liberation organization effort to put pressure on palestinians to return to the negotiating table amid stalled peace talks with israel the trumpet ministration will not keep the office open when the palestinians refused to take steps to start direct and meaningful negotiations with israel the threat of the mission's closure seen by many as retaliation for actions by the palestinian authority president mahmoud abbas last year at the united nations calling for the investigation and prosecution of israeli officials to the international criminal court the actions in raged many in the united states who see the i.c.c. as a body rife with abuses and an infringement on u.s. sovereignty on

to the next story the great national security advisor of dollar trump yes this man's terrible john bolton vows to punish i.c.c. off the court announces probe of alleged u.s. ball crimes in afghanistan last washington and conforming to law school and maging of long said and indeed to raise a may as refused to sign off the crime of aggression and the i.c.c. is dying. well i do think it is dying and remember the i.c.c. although it's not adhere to the latest suggestion aggression should be brought into the remit in the way that the courts suggested by the un to see if the important body is an international body that's all done some good work already but it's not just frankly for bringing black african dictators to court in which will it shouldn't be should be about any country in the world which violates the international norms of behavior should be held to account and to john bolton who is a warmonger par excellence to start telling us that the u.s. is exempt from this on the high pay no attention to it and even stop prosecuting judges i think is parts i can understand others of the i wasn't

this was also part of the national security advisor john bolton's speech today.id that the u.s. would defend u.s. forces and its allies against what he called any means necessary against what he called unjust prosecution by this illegitimate court. >> we will not cooperate with the icc. we will provide no assistance to the icc, and we certainly will not join the icc. [applause] we will let the icc die on its own. after all, for all intents and purposes, the icc is already dead to us. >> now, when bolton worked in the administration of george w. bush, the united states refused to join the court. the obama administration did coordinate with the court on some issues, but now the united states under the trump administration appears firmly against it shep? >> shepard: rich, thanks, the icc obviously the issue national criminal court. icc taking new steps to hide its activities even as it tells president trump and wants to denuclearize. that from the reporting of nbc news. citing three current and former senior administration officials. fox news has not yet confirmed.

sovereignty on monday bolton called for criminal sanctions against the i.c.c. if it moves ahead with investigating allegations of us were crimes in afghanistan those sanctions could even include blocking i.c.c. judges from entering the united states the united states will use any means necessary to protect our citizens and those of our allies from unjust prosecution by this illegitimate court senior palestinian officials are enraged by the u.s. announcement following similar announcements of cuts to palestinian aid the move of the us embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem and is blind to ongoing israeli settlement expansion on disputed land this is an. administration is that to diminish. its. peace process and. the palestinian mission opened in one nine hundred ninety four here in washington and palestinian leaders have long held that any closure of this office would undermine peace efforts despite ignoring these warnings the trumpet ministration says it's still committed to peace could roll out its plan in the coming months kimberly help get al-jazeera washington.

papers it's arrogance with a consolation for the pint at lehman brothers the american war monger john bolton well the simple coming up in today's going underground but first today marks ten years to the day that the self-styled musters of the universe got that comeuppance or rather the entire western world was crashed by an economic model centered on financial services that were built on sand within days as the financial contagion spread u.k. labor iraq was supporting chancellor gordon brown claim to have saved the world by setting the stage for austerity policies that continue today we not only save the world save the banks the all. right all right. around eight hundred fifty billion dollars or perhaps four times the annual budget of britain's public health care system was poured into the accounts of city of london banks only later was malfeasance identified lloyd blankfein of goldman sachs who used to be the boss of governor of the bank of england makani was accused of misleading congress do you think more and blankfein was lying or was he telling the truth that. well he was not being stra

sanctions but john bolton the u.s. national security advisers assume nobody will get away with undermining u.s. sanctions so are we heading then for some kind of serious showdown between the u.s. and europe over iran. yes and i think that's intentional not only to put more pressure on iran but to divide the european union one of the most important foreign policy objectives of the trump administration is to divide the european union to force european countries especially countries like germany and france and the united kingdom for each of them to deal with the united states by laterally where the united states has leverage over them particularly in trade relationships so the united states is no longer interested under the trunk administration in a coherent politically strong european union it would like to divide them and the year the iran issue is perfect for the trying to ministration to use against the europeans to show them as weak and ineffectual that they can't even stand up for a deal they negotiated then let me

meeting bolton was weathering about this e.u. plan along with moscow on beijing to try and bypass the u.s. financial system and keeping trade open with iran he said he said that there was you know there's simply no details it's over time to be determined he just had no faith in it whatsoever he said european companies are all pulling out of iraq he just made fun of out of that whole concept from iraq from from europe that was announced on monday evening she had written the thank you very much indeed in a message to the u.s. turkey's president used his speech at the u.n. to warn his country couldn't remain silent over the use of economic sanctions as a weapon ya know much more lot of t.v. to circulate dollar to trade wars have farms humanity in every h. and do we are on the brink of yet another period that we fear again and none of us can remain silent through the arbitrary cancellation of commercial agreements the spreading prevalence of protectionism and the use of economy extensions as weapons because the negative effects of th

sovereignty on monday bolton called for criminal sanctions against the i.c.c. if it moves ahead with investigating allegations of us were crimes in afghanistan those sanctions could even include blocking i.c.c. judges from entering the united states the united states will use any means necessary to protect our citizens and those of our allies from unjust prosecution by this illegitimate court senior palestinian officials are enraged by the u.s. announcement following similar announcements of cuts to palestinian aid the move of the us embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem and is blind to ongoing israeli settlement expansion on disputed land this is an. administration is that to diminish. its. peace process and. the palestinian mission opened in one nine hundred ninety four here in washington and palestinian leaders have long held that any closure of this office would undermine peace efforts despite ignoring these warnings the trumpet ministration says it's still committed to peace could roll out its plan in the coming months kimberly helped get al-jazeera washingto