hello and welcome to the programme. the financial times is reporting that ubs has offered to buy credit suisse for up to $1 billion dollars, although bloomberg reports that credit suisse sees that as vastly undervaluing the bank. the swiss banking giant had been caught up in the market uncertainty triggered by the collapse, nine days ago, of america s silicon valley bank. it had been offered an emergency credit facility of more than $50 billion dollars by switzerland s central bank, but that had not prevented a sharp fall in its share price. our business correspondent marc ashdownjoins me now. where are we up to with these negotiations? fist where are we up to with these negotiations? where are we up to with these negotiations? where are we up to with these ne . otiations? ., ., negotiations? at the moment we have not heard anything negotiations? at the moment we have not heard anything new negotiations? at the moment we have not heard anything new for negotiations?
to israel, while condemning the latest toll of civilian casualties in gaza where 8,796 people have now been killed, according to the hamas controlled health ministry. there was another huge explosion today in the jabalia refugee camp, the second in as many days. the eu s foreign policy chief josep borell said he is appalled by the reports he s getting. is the steely determination to track down the hamas leaders, blinding israel to its responsibilities under international law? we will discuss that tonight with our panel, from boston the democratic strategist mary anne marsh and from london, the former education secretary justine greening. republicans have put forward an emergency funding bill that includes iii billion dollars for israel but does not include any funding at all for ukraine. we ll get reaction tonight from kyiv. and did a sexist, macho culture in downing street hamper the uk government s response to coronavirus? the rafah border crossing finally opened today to
our correspondent, joe inwood, is on the island of symi. he gave this update. so there hasn t actually been a formal announcement yet. it sjust been. it s emerged reports have come. there s been police sources that have told us that a body has been found. now, it s important to say there has not been formal identification yet. we re standing actually just off the coast now, i should say it wasn t at a cave. we understand that a body was found, it was up on those cliffs there on the hillside. and so this is a busy beach. and so it was it seems that the body was there for a number of days whilst people would have been on that beach. and this is the headland that they ve been searching. this whole area has been covered by emergency services, by helicopters for a number of days now. and that s because it s gradually emerged that michael mosley, because of cctv, had made it to the village of pedi. now, if ijust give you a bit of a sense of the geography, it s around that corner ov
alone in remote mountainous area and local officials say the body was spotted on a steep slope above the beach. yesterday a new cctv footage emerged hello showed him heading towards a path which would have taken him over miles of exposed hills. we can get the family statement now that has been released within the last hour and it is from the wife of michael mosley, doctor claire bailey mosley full stop she says i don t quite know where to begin with this it s devastating to have lost michael, my wonderful, funny and kind has been. we had an incredibly lucky life together, we love each other very much and were so happy. i am incredibly proud of our children, their resilience and support over the last days. she goes on to say that my family and i have been hugely comforted by the outpouring of love for people around the world. it s clear that michael meant a huge amount to so many of us. we are taking comfort in the fact that he he so very nearly made it. he did an incredible c