One the first day of high level speeches at the UN, the head of the International Rescue Committee didn't hear any hope in the address Donald Trump gave to the world body.

"He spoke about what he'd done, but he didn't offer new hope, new initiative, either in respect of Sudan or Gaza or Ukraine," said David Miliband, president of the International Rescue Committee and former British Foreign Secretary under Labour leader Gordon Brown. "So, at the moment, the omens are very serious."

Miliband said "the geography of power has changed in fundamental ways," when addressing the relevance of the United Nations.

"You're going see the recognition or the evidence of a world that has many power centers, not just one. That's what we need to catch up with."

He said the future of humanitarian funding is at a "fork in the road."

"Either there'll be a recognition that when you cut humanitarian funding, you actually ferment political instability," Miliband said, or "that we continue to spread aid too thin, and that we're all going to pay the price."

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