Trump, UK's Burnham hold wide-ranging talks in New York

US President Donald Trump held a meeting with British Prime Minister Andy Burnham on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly's high-level week in New York, hailing the state of bilateral relations.

Asked whether ties had been "a little bit up and down lately," Trump said: "No, I think they're up." Pressed on what state the relationship was in, he said: "Well, they're more up than they were with your last prime minister (Keir Starmer). Let me put it that way."

The talks, he said, touched on issues ranging from Rolls-Royce to energy and immigration.

On immigration, Trump said it "is a problem for many countries." "I think we've, to a large extent, solved our problem. We have a very powerful border with 18 months now in a row where nobody came in illegally into our country."

On Iran's nuclear program, Trump said: "We can't let Iran have a nuclear weapon ... They understand that we can't let them have a nuclear weapon, and there's a price to pay for that."

" I think that a settlement is going to be reached. They want to talk to us. They have been talking to us even today," the US president added.

Asked about the UK's deal to hand over the Chagos Islands, Trump said: "I don't support it. I think it's terrible. It was a terrible deal ... It's strategically very important."