from the forest. w. . this is the news live from germany. team over racism midfielder mesut ozil says he's facing a barrage of criticism for meeting with the turkish president in may also have lots to say about the process of the german football federation also on the program tensions between the united states. rouhani warns the us don't play with the lion's

tail president. don't threaten us or you'll suffer historic consequences. thousands are hospitalized as japan's record temperatures just weeks after devastating floods. welcome to the program german football star mesut ozil has quit the national team of a watch he called discrimination following japanese world cup exit the midfielder who has to his roots said he faced racism and disrespect from the german media after he was pictured with turkish president. back in may he then faced criticism from the german football association after the country's poor world cup before. after a long silence mesut ozil has finally made his feelings known in an epic three part

statement on twitter. it was ill said that not meeting with president at all one would have been disrespecting his family's roots in his third post heavily criticized german football association president for negative comments on islam and multiculturalism and said that he would no longer be playing for germany . a photo of an added one at that meeting in may spark to debate that has refused to die in germany with israel being accused of helping out a once campaign for an upcoming election is all says the pat talked only about football germany teammate. seen here on the left was also at the meeting and explained his decision soon after prefer to remain silent which only brought him more criticism. i don't think any footballer should have their photo taken with any authoritative whether with blood to be a putin as latam a tasted with going to one and there are enough democratic politicians to be

photographed whether it's. going to be missy opposition lawson coming off to germany's exit in the world cup group stage the debate bubbled up again germany team manager all of a big f.a. chief. added fuel to the fire with kindle urging israel to explain his meeting with . the german f.a. have since said that they regrets israel's decision and concede to failure to adequately support him but i am to continue the integration efforts and fight against racism. as it will from chris harrison from day to welcome chris and so that the d.s.p. the german football association has published a statement what has i said well basically it's a p.r. statement they started off by thinking as it was ill for his remarkable service and they say that he made a decisive contribution to germany success in twenty fourteen in brazil they of course won the world cup they also touched on the photo with the turkish president and they said it did raise questions by the german media and they did can see. it

it made it that they didn't handle the situation is as good as they could have you know in regard to all of the backlash the media was you know throwing it. but they did respond to the racism accusations that were directed at its president and they decided a lot of their integration work that they do in saying that the d.f.t. cannot be races basically because we are very multiple multicultural organization and and we stand for diversity and they did regret the departure of ms it was ill so it just looks like they were. covering their tracks and so to speak doing the best they could because they weren't really expecting this post from ms it was ill to ok so therefore he says we as an organization are not racist bill has been quite critical of very organizations president right now grendel has me yes this is a very interesting situation because according to those posts he was requested by

the head coach who he loved to return to germany and discuss the photo with the turkish president during this time who's ill says he had a conversation with grindle this is prior to the world cup kicking off and that he felt he was be a little while expressing how important his turkish heritage was to him and he felt that brando was just trying to force feed him his political views instead of being receptive to you know the thoughts and emotions behind is ill but they according to all the agree that they'll she says focus on football than try to double up on the world cup they crash out germany crashes out then all of a sudden the fingers are pointed at for being a scapegoat a reason why they crashed out so early so basically it comes down to as it will calling grendel a hypocrite because he's saying we had a conversation about this and we say if we focus on football then after they crash out windows says hey where's a statement and he did at that you know i'm speaking now not for grenoble because i want to and it's time so basically he says pointing the finger right hard griddle.

wedges is one of where does it leave young people with immigrant roots in germany is that a wonder that they will think twice about playing for any german national team i think that yes there is there should be some concern about that because you have to consider the population that has a multicultural background similar to is il there are a lot of young up and coming footballers that are given a choice to make you know it comes to a crossroad where they choose to play for germany or do i play you know from other nations that i also share citizenship and i'm thinking that they would choose the latter because in predicament this. commit to those your hero turkish might just be a good turkey might be a powerhouse in the future if a lot of players here choose you know that country or that direction so i think it hurts germany in the long run and i think this statement the d.s.p. made was just try to say face and you know make the public know that we are open to it's a gratian if we just kind of slipped up with this is a situation where you could talk in your press thank you chris harrison did of the

sport ok. tensions are rising between the united states and iran again with donald trump tweeting iranian president rouhani that he will face dire consequences for threatening america iran state owned news agency dismissed the u.s. presence tweet describing to only as a passive reaction to romney's remarks. everyone has a history of using heated rhetoric against the united states but recent comments by president rouhani appear to have crossed a line for donald trump to michoud was you know. don't play with the lines tale one that would only lead to regret that you'll forever regret it. the u.s. president took to twitter to send a warning to tehran he's in capital letters for emphasis never ever threaten the united states again or you will suffer consequences the likes of which few throughout history have ever suffered before. on sunday u.s.

secretary of state my pump a i also had harsh words that hiran. these so-called moderates within the regime are still violent islamic revolutionaries with an anti america and the west agenda you only have to take their own word for it. the verbal standoff comes months after washington's decision to abandon an international deal with iran that was aimed at curbing its nuclear program relations between the two countries have to to rewrite its sense. donald trump is the knowing to fire off controversial tweets to international leaders stoking fears he may ask a late already tense international conflict with a couple of one hundred characters prime example north korea. the famous war of words between kim jong un and donald trump ended with an unexpected summit between the two ladies experts say this is unlikely to happen with tehran. president rouhani has suggested peace is still possible and comments made to iranian

diplomats he said americans had a choice between quote the mother of all peace and the mother of all wars with iran . more on this from a v.w. reporter stories a trucker who's been in iran a loss of the past few years and covered many stories from that welcome. where is this war of words likely to lead while many iranians i spoke to are worried that it's going to need to more confrontation maybe even a military one. and there are a lot of people on either side that seem to have an appetite for an escalating the conflict for example this one former commander of iran's revolutionary guards who tweeted in response from you are the one with fifty thousand forces under iran splayed and make these sorts of maddening threats you must be careful but i personally can't imagine that any side would really want to risk a military confrontation and setting the middle east on fire because basically

that's what would happen if iran was attacked it would have like very fierce consequences for the u.s. allies in the region and i don't think anybody could want that meanwhile ever since the united states pulled out of the iran nuclear deal they'd be doing what they can to try to drum up international support for reintroducing sanctions to secure state might pump has been trying to do that is he having much success well clearly not as much as he would probably want to because china and russia are not likely to go along and the europeans also don't really have an interest in escalating the conflict even further first because they want to do business with iran but also because they know that fresh sanctions wouldn't hit the country's hard line as the drug in the country because they're rich and they've become rich during the last time there was sanctions in place because they earn money by avoiding the sanctions europeans know that the ones most hit by those sanctions would be ordinary iranians workers owners of small businesses the middle class so basically the ones who

elected president rouhani who campaigned and said he wants to cooperate with the international communities so if that now proves not successful then his successor will likely choose a very different path right so my pump air goes around the world looking for support for sanctions the major powers say no sorry if anyone say yes. of course the israeli government is very supportive of president but even inside the israeli administration there are people who say if a play of calm we don't really have an interest in escalation of the conflict in the region ok so what is behind president tribe's antipathy towards iran why does he why does he have this special feeling in his heart for the well that's everyone's gaz at least to me it's not really apparent why he would threaten iran while at the same time shaking the hand of north korea's leader kim jung un for example or also working closely with saudi arabia so i don't really see

a reason apart from the fact maybe that he's been threatening iran for a long time know ever since he was on the companion trail so now he seems to be wanting to make good on that promise so that's a reason i can imagine but it's important to see that it will not really pay off for the u.s. administration to threaten the regime in tehran because that we can position inside the country because the regime routinely enables all types of protests staged by the west to weaken the islamic republic and so if he officially supports them no that actually weakens them and most iranians are not really waiting for president trying to liberate them ok. thank you so much. the chinese vaccine producers knowingly expose hundreds of thousands of children to substandard vaccines this is the question chinese producer trying to answer it launched an investigation into chunks a chunk sharing biotech claims that it's so dangerous vaccines to health facilities

across the country but it's not the only country and i thought the only company under suspicion state drug oath or have announced that they will very will conduct unannounced inspections on other chinese manufacturers. a trans heat wave has now claimed almost two dozen people with thousands more hospitalized as authorities record the country's highest ever temperature forty one point one degrees celsius as you can imagine people are doing anything they can to stay cool. it's been like this for weeks. japan's summers are often hot and humid but it's been five years since temperatures were anywhere near as high as this. the government is warning people to take precautions to prevent heat stroke. japan experienced another extreme weather event last month historic flooding this month's heat wave is focusing the mind of government you say need to it's two years until the twenty

twenty tokyo olympics and paralympics and our biggest challenge is how to counter the heat all. that they do that they did this and this is. the heat is also disrupting transport links here a minor train accident thought to be due to walked tracks. the japanese are adjusting their daily lives however they can splashing water on the street a tradition in japan cooling the city streets. and some commuters are opting to work from home in order to avoid the sweltering city center making do with a video conference in what city center that it's malts got it's just tiring commuting into work by the time i get to the office i am so tired i just started don't feel like working. at night you get a lawyer. and there's more blazing heat to come high temperatures

across the country a forecast for the coming week. it's time to remind of our top story this hour the debate over racism in germany has kicked off the star midfielder the supposed quit the national football tape he said he faced racial prejudice and disrespect after meeting with his present time oh the one night and after germany's disappointing world cup before. i set you up to dance i'll have more for you at the top of the hour that's one of the websites of course t w dot com good. nico is in germany to learn german. and lived in the. why not learn with him online on the mobile and free to south from the w e learning course nikos speak.