it reads. our correspondentjoe inwood has the latest from the island of symi. i ve been here for three orfour days now following the attempt to find michael mosley and you hear that statement from clare bailey mosley, and it is very sad, it is a very heartfelt statement for a man who so many people clearly loved and held in great affection. he was a very well known broadcaster, a doctor, a medical expert, but he was also a husband and father. a friend to many people and that is what came through in there. as you say, it was the news that we had been expecting from this morning and certainly, the longer it went on, the longer the search went on, the more unlikely it was that he would be found alive and well. it is incredibly hot here, incredibly difficult conditions, those hills behind me, those aren t the hills he was found on but but they are very similar geologically, they are the same sort of height, it is very rough terrain, very difficult, very exposed. it was right in t
attacks on schools and hospitals. so we don t know the accusations that the israeli military is facing, but obviously, thousands of children have been killed since this war against hamas started, as the result of those attacks on the 7th of october, and we have seen that thousands more are in desperate need of aid. there is a huge humanitarian crisis going on in gaza. we saw days ago a school being used as a shelter by displaced palestinians in the same refugee camp in central gaza that was hit in an israeli air strike. the israeli military said it was targeting hamas members who were using it as a base to plan and carry out attacks. but critics of the israeli military say that even though the military claims that many of those facilities are being used by hamas as bases to carry out attacks, they say that this cannot be used as a justification for attacks that result in a large number of civilian casualties. so again, we see today that this huge rescue operation has resulted
have arrived on the island of symi to look for him. joe inwood has the latest. they are certainly made it to the first village as there was concern he had something that happened as he made away from the beach where he was with his wife to the village of pedi. i have spoken to somebody directly involved in the search and rescue operation this morning. they now think that, rather than continuing in a straight, direct route to the town of symi,, he actually doubled back around the bay and went for a much longer walk through a mountainous region. it s not certain exactly that is the route he took but that is the working hypothesis. it is worth pointing out that the route they think he took is far less used, far more rugged, and he was doing this in the heat of the day. it is nine o clock local time and it is already pretty hot. by 130, and i was out at the same time yesterday, it is boiling. there are realfears the same time yesterday, it is boiling. there are real fears that if
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