News 17th March 2023 (Morning)

A Pentagon job advert for an adviser to Ukraine's Defense ministry shows the long-time US policy of controlling Ukraine's affairs, with Washington now pushing Kiev away from peace talks with Russia. Saudi Arabia confirms it could 'very quickly' start investing in Iran following a breakthrough after a Chinese-brokered agreement of restoring diplomatic relations between the states. We continue our special coverage of the grim legacy left by the disastrous US-led war in Iraq twenty years since then-US President George W Bush's ultimatum to Saddam Hussein, to give up power or face war.