Its newsday. Welcome to newsday. Its 9am in singapore, iam in london and 10am in seoul where the ousted south Korean Leader Park Geun Hye has vowed that the truth will out after leaving office Days Afterjudges upheld a Parliament Decision to impeach her. Massive crowds gathered to see ms park finally leave the president s official residence, the blue house. Her departure means she no longer has president ial immunity from prosecution and criminal charges may well follow. Earlier i spoke to our correspondent in seoul steve evans and he described former president parks first public appearance since leaving the president ial palace. There was certainly no sense of contrition or of a broken woman or anything like that. She had a broad, broad smile, she was waving to her supporters from the back of the black limo when she arrived at her private residence. That statement, which was delivered not by her but as a statement that the truth will out, indicates that she does not except that she di
Clear of uruguay at the top of the table. Argentinas victory over chile takes them up to third, with colombia up to fourth, which is the last of The Automatic qualifying places. Ecuador are now fifth, which is the play off position, while chile, the reigning South American champions, drop out of the qualifying places completely after that defeat in argentina. Lets move to asian world cup qualifying where iran have edged closer to a place at next years finals in russia. They beat qatar 1 0 in doha, where mehdi taremi beat the off side trap to score the only goal of the game early in the second half. The result take iran four points clear at the top of group a. A giant step forward but now we still need to be focused on these four games that remain. Because as everything is showing, the results, everything is showing, the results, everything is showing, the results, everything is very tight and it is not over. We need to be fully concentrated to collect the points that we need to qualify
That record broken now, that is something for the statistics guys but at the end of the day it had to happen at one stage. Azerbaijan, they scored out of nowhere and nobody expected them to do that. When you look at it, that is 44 unbeaten games on the road for germany now. Quite an effort. The quality is so deep and they are a Lwa Ys Quality is so deep and they are always bringing new players. Against teams like san marino and azerbaijan, i think they want to test the new players. The game against england, there were some testing going and i think they are on the right way now that they have gone through all the combinations. That result means that germany still only lead group c by five points after second placed Northern Ireland continued their solid form with a 2 0 win at home over norway while the Czech Republic climb to third after they put six past san marino. England were 2 0 winners over lithuania at wembley with Jermaine Defoe and jamie vardy scoring the goals. 34 year old de
Are into the last four of the Champions League. Lucy bronze scores to book citys place in the semi finals after a 2 0 Aggregate Win over danish side Fortuna Hjorring. After the most challenging Railway Repair ever, today the Settle Carlisle train line reopens to customers. And matt has the weather. Good morning. Grey skies and rain might greet the day for many of you but things will brighten up quite nicely i have details coming up and a full weekend broadcast. Good morning. First, our main story. Patients will have to wait longer for routine operations, such as hip and knee replacements, as a trade off so improvements can be made in other areas, like a e. Thats according to the head of nhs england, simon stevens, who is today setting out a new strategy for the next two years. Alexandra mackenzie has more. How have you been feeling . Not too bad, thank you. Iris ram is 96 and is recovering from a recent illness. Youre doing really well. Her gp called a local nhs Service Based in nottin
Quickest, but he can certainlyjump. He kept his speed at the end. We have a tremendous staff and i hope they will all be here today. It is their input that has done it all. We are very lucky to have a horse like arthur, and he isjust outstanding. You can see him, he is fresh as anything. He even does being a grand National Winner well peter scudamore, a former champion jockey who never won the race, says he is well aware of what the victory means for such a small yard. We think sometimes we are in our own bubble, but the village has turned out. Our lads are drinking and eating in the village, renting houses there, they are part of it. Scotland is not known for its Great Scott Which sporting achievements. The plan now is to return in 12 months to do it all over again. Brian mclaughlin, reporting scotland, with a grand National Winner. Plenty more coming up National Winner. Plenty more Coming Up In Sportsday in a few minutes, but first, the weather. Good evening. For most of us, it has b