Annihilation, AI and a walkout - key moments from Trump's UN speech

US President Donald Trump returned to the signifier astatine the United Nations connected Tuesday, wherever helium touted his administration's policies successful beforehand of satellite leaders and issued pointed threats to immoderate of those gathered successful the room.

The lengthy code was wide-ranging, covering the warfare successful Iran, AI, Cuba and the relation of America's military.

The BBC's correspondents who covered the code person picked 5 cardinal moments that stood out.

By Sarah Smith, North America exertion successful the room

The US president has nary large respect for the United Nations – helium accused it of imposing a far-left docket – but helium does relish the planetary level it gives him.

He utilized Tuesday's code to tout his achievements, and assertion the mantle of a peacemaker, astatine the aforesaid clip arsenic helium issued a fig of pointed threats.

Iran mightiness beryllium annihilated, lethal strikes connected tiny boats suspected of cause smuggling volition proceed and the Cuban authorities whitethorn adjacent beryllium toppled.

The wide connection was: America is inactive prepared to usage its subject mightiness wherever Trump thinks it mightiness beryllium required to unafraid its nationalist interests.

Trump said helium was "reasserting American power" and flexed what helium called the country's "unmatched subject might".

"The United States volition nary longer licence threats to America to summation a foothold anyplace successful the Western Hemisphere," helium said.

Once again, Trump has made the full-throated assertion to the satellite of "America First".

By Bernd Debusmann Jr, White House newsman successful the room

Trump took purpose astatine 1 of the US's closest neighbours, Cuba, calling it "an perfectly failed state" and saying his medication has been pursuing "a cardinal alteration successful the concern successful Cuba".

"It volition fall," helium said.

The Cuban delegation walked retired of the hallway arsenic Trump continued his remarks.

Over the past year, the US president go much vocal successful criticising Cuba's communist government. On Tuesday, helium said it was nether "enormous pressure" and "failing similar ne'er before".

The US has not, however, provided a elaborate representation of what it believes alteration volition look similar successful Cuba.

Cuba's overseas curate reacted angrily to Trump's comments and accused the US president of spreading "falsehoods".

"The US authorities is incapable of accepting that Cuba is and has the close to beryllium a afloat sovereign and autarkic country," Bruno Rodriguez wrote connected X.

By Khashayar Joneidi, BBC Persian analogous successful Washington

Trump presented Iran with a stark prime astatine the UN General Assembly: scope an statement with Washington and rebuild the country, oregon look the accelerated "annihilation" of the Islamic Republic.

He past again predicted that a woody to extremity the warfare would astir apt travel the US midterm elections successful November.

His remarks illustrated Trump's acquainted strategy of coercive diplomacy - keeping negotiations unfastened portion besides threatening overwhelming force.

But his connection blurred the favoritism betwixt destroying the governmental strategy and threatening Iran itself.

International instrumentality experts person antecedently expressed interest astatine what they called "alarming rhetoric" utilized by US officials, including Trump himself, who has posted that the US mightiness "obliterate" Iran's powerfulness plants.

References connected Tuesday to leaving "no accidental of survival" and "no hope" for aboriginal generations volition apt person stoked akin alarm. There is besides an irony successful delivering this informing astatine the United Nations, an organisation founded to prevention aboriginal generations from war.

Yet the code was not a declaration that diplomacy has failed.

It was an effort to specify the presumption of imaginable negotiations: the US remains prepared to marque a deal, but lone nether the shadiness of an existential threat.

By Bernd Debusmann Jr, White House newsman successful the room

Trump besides praised a caller woody with Greenland nether which helium said the US would physique 2 subject bases successful the Arctic territory.

"We volition person the implicit quality to bash what is indispensable to support the American continent and besides Europe," helium said of the deal, which helium archetypal announced connected Friday.

He added that it "very overmuch enhances" the defence confederation Nato.

The US, Denmark and Greenland held a associated signing ceremonial astatine the UN soon aft Trump's address.

Although Greenland is simply a semi-autonomous territory, it is portion of the Kingdom of Denmark which chiefly handles its overseas policy.

Trump medication officials are already hailing the statement arsenic enhancing US information astatine minimal outgo - and with relationships intact.

Denmark and Greenland's governments, however, volition beryllium hoping it ends the long-simmering disagreement that began erstwhile Trump threatened to instrumentality Greenland by force.

That menace shook the Nato confederation and sorely tested the US-Danish relationship.

Few wide details astir the quality of the woody person been confirmed publicly, and fixed Trump had tried for months to acquisition oregon annex the semi-autonomous territory, immoderate analysts are viewing it arsenic a quiescent triumph for diplomacy.

By Nada Tawfik, New York analogous astatine the UN

Trump has a penchant for branding, and successful his code helium gave Artificial Intelligence a caller name: Super Intelligence.

"The usage of the connection artificial makes it dependable fake," helium said. "It's not fake, it's really amazing. But we person to beryllium careful."

"Welcome to the caller satellite of Super Intelligence - SI," helium added.

Trump has antecedently argued that the US indispensable travel retired connected apical successful the AI improvement race, saying past week: "Whoever wins AI, wins."

The president is firmly against authorities regularisation oregon introducing caller guardrails - and that puts him astatine likelihood with galore of those gathered astatine the UN.

For those who are calling for regulation, the question is whether the dilatory gait of diplomacy tin support up with AI's accelerated development.