unit killed 5a people in suspicious circumstances in just one six month tour. that reporting led to calls for a public inquiry, which is now under way to examine these underlying allegations of war crimes. in an unexpected reversal today, the ministry of defence, as you said, confirmed for the first time that uk special forces were involved in these raids that are now being scrutinised. but the ministry of defence is still asking for widespread reporting restrictions on the public inquiry. lawyers for the bereaved families and for the bbc and four other media organisations are calling for as much of this key evidence to the inquiry as possible to be held in open court so the public have as much access to that information as possible. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news. a london court has heard evidence from one of the men claiming to have been sexually assaulted by kevin spacey.
dr. gounder confirmed the cause of his death, according to an autopsy, done back home in new york, the acclaimed 49-year-old soccer journalist died from an aortic aneurysm, a burst blood vessel. prompting speculation on social media there was foul play involved in his death. after wahl s reporting led up to the world cup was shown a spotlight on human rights violations in the host nation. we are back with dr. patel and rick stengel. dr. patel, before we get to the medical piece which i want you to walk us through, your thoughts as someone who knows dr. gounder. what [ inaudible ] i mean, i m getting emotional and i couldn t have held it together. it shows you not only her grace and class, but how much love. they ve been married for 20 years and they had so much love. grief is love. i mean just what you saw, was that expression of this
hard to say whether all these men who were involved in this and women will ever really be exposed. certainly there are people that know who was involved. and, you know, there were a lot of people that were in epstein owes circle. academics. it wasn t wasn t just all politicians, it was being a democks hey, julie, it s willie. good to you have on again this morning. so our viewers understand how we got to this investigative investigation, senator ben sasse read your reporting, was shocked by it and pushed and pushed and pushed and got the department of justice to now vet alex acosta s role in this case. so your reporting led to where we are today.
ford s are doorstep. that s why she desired to speak out, what led us to thursday s hearing. as you know, further reporting led the new yorker to the doorstep of another accuser, deborah ramirez. this hearing revealed two very different countries with two very different media environments. the debate about cavanaugh is happening everywhere, but it s happening in two alternative universes. there s only one point of consensu consensus. the fight to confirm judge kavanaugh tearing washington apart. we re talking about tearing the country apart. tearing the country apart. take a look at the front page of the new york times. this was controversial, the framing, the photo selection the next day. you see on the left, a composed, nervous christine blasey ford. on the right, an angry and defiant judge kavanaugh. some conservatives said the
state of mind right now? well, wolf, it was chaos and confusion earlier over here today at the justice department. as officials were prepared for the deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein, to get fired by the president. but that did not happen. it all, of course, began on friday with that explosive new york times reporting led to conversations, we re told, over the weekend, where the deputy attorney general did discuss with white house officials about potentially resigning. but they couldn t get the details worked out. he wanted to do it on his own terms. he really cared about the timing, we re told. but the white house couldn t get on board. and so we re told today, wolf, he went into the white house, to that meeting with john kelly, expecting to get fired. but, of course, that is not what happened. and it appears he really overestimated, if you will, how angry trump was about that explosive story in the new york times. sources telling my colleague, kaitlan collins, that reall