rob reynolds did send this update from los angeles. >>reporter: the stage is set for an unusual event. 70 years after the end of the second, representatives of a japan giant, the mitsubishi corporation, will issue a formal apology for its treatment of american prisoners of war during the second world war. now, there were approximately 12,000 u.s. p.o.w.s shipped to japan, and were employed as slave labour basically in a variety of industrial locations to support the imperial japanese war effort. of the total. about 10% died. there were 900 p.o.w.s who laboured in the mines and other operations of the mitsubishi corporation. of those, only two are left alive. and one of them 93-year-old veteran james murphy will be listening on the stage and accepting the apology of the mitsubishi corporation representative. the government of japan apologised for the treatment of american p.o.w.s, which violated various tenants of the geneva convention against mistreatment of p.o.w.s that was in 2009, and again in 2010. that has been done. this is the f

been watching this situation closely with mixed feelings depending on their political views and rob reynolds met one american who makes his living cracking jokes about the difficulties between the countries. >> reporter: comedian's humor spokes fun and plays for laugh the tensions of u.s. iran and the middle east. >> like we are very sneaky and like we have a nuclear program. okay, we have but it's a peaceful nuclear program, it's peaceful. i will blow you up then we hug you. >> reporter: he was born in tehran and his family left in the middle of the islamic revolution and he grew up in california which has one of the largest iran/american populations in the u.s. >> there is a lot of iran and a lot of different view points. there is persian jews and persian muslims and persian armanians and different relations and persian republicans and persian democrats. >> reporter: he wrote a book showing how much they get wrong of middle easterners. >> trying to make fun of how hollywood mixes it up with arab or pakistan or whatever it is they put us altogether. >> reporter: says many believe that iran'

rob reynolds was there. >> a very enthusiastic crowd has gathered here in los angeles. several thousand people, all here to cheer the women's world cup champions just come back to u.s. soil, and is now reveling in all of this applause. let's take a look at the theme here. lots of children brought their daughters and sons as well. there's a stage up there where the members of the team have just arrived now and they're giving interviews one-by-one. now, on sunday, when the game was played, the united states versus japan. it turned out to be the most widely watched soccer game in u.s. history with 26.7 million people tuning in on various television channels. that's even more than other traditional u.s. sports events like the world series, and baseball and the final game of the national basketball association. president barack obama was watching the game, and he sent out hissing congratulations to the team in a tweet. and he also congratulated them speaking to coach jill ellis congratulating her for leadership. and noting carli lloyd's extraordinary three goals in the final

they said sorry and the first time it said sorry to pows since the war ended 70 years ago and rob reynoldsfrom los angeles. >> reporter: an apology seven decades after the fact. >> translator: today we apologized remorse for tragic event in our past. >> reporter: japan's industrial giant mitsubichi used slave labor during the second world war and the first to say sorry one of the last survivors of the labor of the mines 94-year-old james murphy was there to accept the apology. >> for 70 years since the war ended the prisoners of war who worked for these japanese companies have asked for something very simple they asked for an apology and this is listening very carefully to the statement of apology and found it very very sincere. >> reporter: murphy was capture captured when japan over road it and shipped with approximately 12000 other pows to japan where they were forced to work. and the liberation day for pows at the mine and that is murphy sitting on top of the wall and he doesn't like to talk much about his treatment at the hands of japanese guards but 95-year-old former pow lester tiny

. >> reporter: wounds of war, healed at last rob reynolds in los angeles. >> reporter: the latest planrebuild its corrupt reputation and fifa bladder will name a date when the successor were chosen and arrested two months ago of a u.s. investigation of corruption and money laundering and one has been extradited and blatter announced he would stand down after 17 years in the top job, four days after being reelected and lee weldings is live in zurich and lee how tense is this meeting likely to be? >> well i know this meeting will be very tense as was the meeting on sunday, a premeeting to get together executives and flush out as much as possible so they can just confirm it at the meeting today that is about to finish quite shortly, i spoke to a very important person in this process who will be taking the executives through the reforms that they want to get into place and of course one thing that has so much attention is one of the people driving this through is seemingly blatter who did not use the resignation word in june so the executive committee was getting very tense and wants blatt

beat japan in the final on sunday, rob reynolds joined me from los angeles with a team are parading their trophy, i know there's a slight delay, but it seems this team has already caught the attention of the fans judging by what is happening behind you there. >> yes, you should have come and scene this just a few moments ago, when the team was actually on stage. the crowd was so loud, so intense, chanting, u.s.a., u.s.a. u.s.a., calling out the names of their favorite players. hope sole he, and of course carlie lloyd who scored that incredible hat trick in the game against japan, many the final, we will just show you a little bit of -- still quite a few colorful characters here, a lot of people in red white and blue. and the crowd itself was -- i'd say at least a couple thousand, but that is no comparison to the enormous number of people who watched that final game on television, the biggest television audience in -- for a soccer game in u.s. history. 20 since .7 million people watching on various channels. that breaks records not only for soccer but also for things like last year's world