Sky News Today with Jayne Secker

US President Donald Trump addressed the UN General Assembly as its second speaker of the day, speaking for almost 45 minutes. He said America is back and set out how he would use American power to confront global and US challenges, including the Iranian nuclear threat, cartel violence and securing interests in Greenland. He said he had resolved the Gaza conflict, freed hostages, ended the war and created a Board of Peace he would chair, and on Iran he said he would never allow it to acquire a nuclear weapon. He posed a choice between a deal that lets Iran become bigger and more powerful or annihilating the Islamic Republic quickly, said he believed Iran would make a deal right after the election, and added that he did not think about the midterms when making decisions on Iran. The Iranian delegation was present and Iran's president was due to speak the following day; the Cuban delegation walked out when he mentioned Cuba. He also said the US rejects any globalist scheme to control artificial intelligence and wants to rename it superintelligence, or SI, with all US documents and hopefully the world's changing to the more accurate term.

Sky's Mark Stone said Trump stuck to the teleprompter more than last year and delivered familiar sound bites, and he highlighted Trump's remarks on Iran, noting that Americans connect high prices to his decision to go into Iran. He said a signing ceremony with Denmark and Greenland over Greenland was expected, building on and modernising a 1951 agreement, and that Andy Burnham was due to meet Trump. Beth Rigby said the meeting was a massive moment for Burnham, coming up to a couple of months as Prime Minister, after an early international trip to Ukraine. She said Burnham would urge Trump to de-escalate on Iran, try to persuade him to give more air defence support to Ukraine, and position the UK as an honest broker on harnessing and regulating AI, citing the UK's defence institute and relationships with the US, Europe, India and China. She noted Trump had said the US would win in superintelligence.

Hilary Rosen described Trump as subdued and cautious, with low popularity at home and abroad, especially over Iran and what she called a lack of aggressiveness with Putin over Ukraine. She said his approval rating was below 40% about six to eight weeks before the midterms, that he had told a Republican convention in Texas he was on the ballot, and that the war had hurt the US and world economies while Gulf allies such as Saudi Arabia looked to the UK for help. She said his threat to annihilate Iran might be empty and diplomacy was his only choice. Lord Peter Ricketts said the first half of the speech sounded like a campaign speech for the midterms, while the international section was a series of greatest hits, including Iran and a brief focus on Ukraine and Russia. He said Trump was positive about NATO and Mark Rutte, that the Greenland deal with Denmark was being signed, and that the AI superintelligence push contrasted with Burnham's interest in AI safety at next year's G20. He also noted Trump's harsh attack on the International Criminal Court and his call for members to resign.