00:00U.S. President Donald Trump's administration prepares sanctions against the entire International Criminal Court.
00:06Reuters cites two sources familiar with the matter, adding Trump's government plans to announce the sanctions soon.
00:12The Wall Street Journal cites officials who say the decision could be finalized during the United Nations General Assembly meeting.
00:17This steps up attacks on the global tribunal that prosecutes war crimes and genocide worldwide.
00:22The Trump administration has worked to undermine the ICC, to pressure the tribunal to drop arrest warrants against Israeli leaders,
00:29as well as a past probe into American troops in Afghanistan.
00:32U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio in July announced a campaign to isolate the court, calling on other countries
00:38to withdraw from the tribunal.
00:40Washington has imposed sanctions on a number of ICC judges and prosecutors, but has so far held off from imposing
00:46sanctions on the court itself.
00:47The U.S. has never been a member of the ICC.
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