This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Janet Jalil and at 14 hours GMT on Tuesday the 16th of January,

these are our main stories.

Donald Trump cement's position as a front runner for the

Republican presidential nomination with a landslide victory in Iowa's caucuses.

The US says it seized Iranian weaponry being taken to Huthi militants in Yemen, as it also condemns

Iranian missile strikes on Iraqi Kurdistan that have killed several people.

Health authorities in northern Ethiopia warn of a deepening hunger crisis in

Tigray after more than 200 people die in one town alone. Also in this podcast, TV drama Succession cleans up at this year's Emmy Awards where one award winner gave a rather unusual tribute.

I want to thank me.

For believing in me and doing what they said I could not do.

Despite his legal woes and false claims about the last US presidential election

Donald Trump has won big in the first contest of what he hopes will be his path

back to the White House. He wrapped up 51% of the vote in the Iowa Caucasus with his supporters

turning out despite unusually cold weather even for this small rural Midwestern

state. The Florida Governor Ron Desantis, who's dedicated a huge amount of time

and resources to Iowa, managed to come a distant second, narrowly beating Nicky Haley, who was

ambassador to the UN under Mr. Trump.

Despite being plagued by sexual assault allegations the former US

president won the support of Christian conservatives who've warmed to him after his three Supreme Court picks

helped to make abortion illegal in many parts of the US.

Our North America correspondent Nomea Iqbal reports. So we're going to put America first, we're going to make America great again.

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