heritage organization came into force this monday washington announced its intention to boycott you nasco in october accusing the agency of anti israel bias. on the twelfth of october two thousand and seventeen the department of state notified unesco directed general it mean a book of the u.s. decision to withdraw from their goodness nation and to seek to establish a permanent observer mission to unesco this decision was not taken lightly and reflects his concerns with the mountaineer being such an escrow the need for fundamental reform and they're going to say sion and continuing anti israel license unesco now at this point that we can review that in twenty seventeen there was outcry from the united states and israel when unesco designated a hebron the city in the west bank designated as a world historical site now there is a contested area in the center of that city to muslims it's the ibrahimi mosque to jews it's the cave of patriarchs and at that point we saw some loud outcry from the united states and from israel now it's important to note that this isn't the first time that we've he

heard accusations of a pro palestinian bias from the usa and from israel and twenty eleven when the nasco body officially recognized a state of palestine at that point the usa and israel both stopped paying dues to unesco they were then stripped of their voting rights in two thousand and thirteen after having not paid their dues so at this point we see the united states carrying out a policy that its long carried out which is when it doesn't like certain international accords and agreements or international bodies it simply withdraw let's review the united states we withdraw from the optional protocol in dispute resolution to the vienna convention on diplomatic relations the united states is officially withdrawing from the un human rights council we will not cooperate with the i.c.c. we will provide no assistance to the i.c.c. baseless politicize claims are brought against us hypocritical bodies and institution unjust prosecution by this illegitimate court the council ceases to be . are they have its name we will commence a review of all international agreements that may still expose the

ministration with nikki haley as the ambassador remove itself we saw the united states remove itself from the nasco and from the un human rights council so it is not expected that very much will change there's been no indication that under the heading of heather now we're at leadership as the us ambassador to the united nations that anything will really show. and it's expected she will continue the trump administration's policies now it's also interesting to note the trouble announced another key appointment and that was the announcement of mr william barr to replace jeff sessions as the u.s. attorney general now william barr was previously u.s. attorney general he's held that post before and william barr most interestingly has declared himself to be a supporter of the bob muller investigation into alleged collusion with russia now trump is announced both these appointments heather nauert for the u.n. and william barr as attorney general but the world is still waiting for the confirmation hearings the senate will have to then confirm the appointments and as we saw with kavanagh and that whole deal