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 climb, took the wrong routes and collapsed when he could not be easily seen by the extensive search team. michael was an adventurous man, she says, it's part of what made him so special and we are so grateful to the extraordinary people on symi who have worked tirelessly to find him. some of these people who had not even heard of michael worked from dawn to dusk and asked. we also grateful to the press who have dealt thus with great respect. she finally says i feel so lucky to have my children are my amazing friends and most of all i feel so lucky to have had this life with michael. thank you, all. let's go now to a news correspondent inwood who is on the island of symi for us. joe, we explore expecting this news but terribly sad. explore expecting this news but terribly sad-— explore expecting this news but terribly sad. yes, we were and it reall is. terribly sad. yes, we were and it really is- i _ terribly sad. yes, we were and it really is. i have _ terribly sad. yes, we were and it really is. i have been _ terribly sad. yes, we were and it really is. i have been here - terribly sad. yes, we were and it really is. i have been here for. really is. i have been here for three or four days now in the attempts to find michael mosley and hearing that statement from clare bailey mosley. it's very sad and a crabby heartfelt statement for a man who so many people loved and held in great affection. of course, he was a very well—known broadcaster, a doctor, a medical expert but he was also a husband and father. and a friend to many people and that is what came through in there. it was the news that we had been expecting since this morning, certainly, the longer it went on, longer search went on, the more unlikely it became that he would be found alive and well. it is incredibly hot here and incredibly difficult conditions. you can see the hills behind me, they aren't exactly the hills were found on but they are very similar in height. it was very rough to terrain. very exposed. it is right in the middle of the day and it would have been an incredibly arduous climb. clare bailey mosley, in her statement makes it clear he had tried a very difficult climb and she points out that he very nearly succeeded. we were just... she points out that he very nearly succeeded. we werejust... he she points out that he very nearly succeeded. we were just... he was found at a place called agia marina and we were there half an hour ago so and be on a boat and we could see it. you could see the point at which he had been found. and he had so nearly made it down towards the beach. this is the point that she was making. for the family, they got some comfort from the fact he got so close. of the sea, in the end he did not make it and the discovery today of its body is a very, very sad news. of course, for the people here who have tried to find in but most will for the mosley family. jae. will for the mosley family. joe, thank you _ will for the mosley family. joe, thank you very _ will for the mosley family. joe, thank you very much _ will for the mosley family. joe, thank you very much for - will for the mosley family. joe, thank you very much for now. michael mosley is well known for bbc programmes including the pod cast just one thing and the series trust me, i'm a doctor. david sillitoe has been looking at his career. michael mosley, a trusted charismatic are of good health. a tv producer and presenter, always happy to be the guinea pig in the search for a better understanding of science of sleep and fitness and weight. most notably, in 2012 when he was diagnosed with type two diabetes. i got this list of the things that i am allowed on my new diet and the things that i am definitely not allowed. , , , , things that i am definitely not allowed. , , ,, allowed. his subsequent weight loss usin: allowed. his subsequent weight loss using intermittent _ allowed. his subsequent weight loss using intermittent fasting, _ allowed. his subsequent weight loss using intermittent fasting, inspired i using intermittent fasting, inspired thousands to follow the 5—2 diet. this scanner will give the best images of my heart that money can buy. images of my heart that money can bu . , , ., , ., buy. his enthusiasm for experimenting - buy. his enthusiasm for experimenting on - buy. his enthusiasm for. experimenting on himself buy. his enthusiasm for- experimenting on himself had buy. his enthusiasm for— experimenting on himself had been inspired by scientist by deliberately infecting himself with bacteria. michael mosley realised it would make great television and help to take science out of the lab and into peoples lives. nothing seemed daunting. here he is infesting himself and tapeworms. there was always a serious point. if type two diabetes could be reversed or chronic insomnia helped, he wanted to test it himself. there are many who say he changed their lives. david sillitoe, bbc news. and david is with me now. we saw in your report there the kind of breadth of career and the way he put himself into it and for me, that is the way that i connected with him as an audience member and i think so many others did. , ., ., , ., , others did. there is a long history here of being _ others did. there is a long history here of being given _ others did. there is a long history here of being given good - others did. there is a long history here of being given good advice, l others did. there is a long history i here of being given good advice, eat your greens, do exercise, and everyone ignores it. for some reason, he managed to connect with people. it worked for him. it's interesting that he had a long career before he became well known ad was about 12 years ago that he it all changed as he was diagnosed with type two diabetes and he asked if it was there some evidence? there was a man, doctor roy taylor who was doing the diabetes reversal clinical trial suggesting that diet could solve your blood sugar problems and he went down there and that led to the 5-2 diet, went down there and that led to the 5—2 diet, the blood sugar diet, what is fascinating is that you look at the tributes today and how many people just saying, thank you. i lost 6.5 stone, tom watson and former deputy leader of the labour party i think he lost about seven stone. it is hard to describe how upset i am by this through courageous science —based journalism michael mosley fight helped thousands of people get healthy i am one of them, he was a hero to me, he said. as a tv presenter, he trained as a doctor in the past but it was because he managed to find a way of taking the extraordinary research thatis taking the extraordinary research that is taking place in britain and around the world and saying look, i'll see if it works, i'll put my body through it. the tapeworms is the ultimate example. i interviewed him a couple of times and i remember i went to one of these big public events and it was a bit chaotic and i managed to find him and ijust want to deal sound bite about something or other and what i do have a memory of it is a queue of people by him, not wanting autographs, they rashly wanting to say thank you. you know, he is a tv presenter who with his wife doctor clare bailey mosley, theyjust finished uk tour. people trusted his advice. he was going to the best people, testing it out, and he was saying there are always equivocation is about these kinds of things but you're a brave person if you describe as a tv doctor because there are hundreds of people out there are hundreds of people out there going, i don't think that's quite true, i think you're simplifying it, ithink quite true, i think you're simplifying it, i think it's more common gated at than that. the evidence isn't quite as clear. people did trust what he said because it seemed to work. i mean, when he went on the diet he will lost about eight kilograms and he said he was one of those classic thin outside, fat inside, that's what he discovered. their awful lot of people, the list of people who went on that diet, george osborne, former chancellor of the united kingdom, for example, they will lost the weight when at the time we thought camry, can we actually do something about it? he got people to change their lives. that's what todayis change their lives. that's what today is about. also, bbc science, the number of people as a science producer, he helped give them their break in their careers. he changed the ways in which people talk about science on television, rather than being a bit distant, lots of graphs, a bit like homework, it was a bit more, look, this happened to me, this is the science as we understand it and it had an impact on peoples lives. ., ., ., ,, , ., it and it had an impact on peoples lives. ., ., ., ,, i. lives. david, for now, thank you so much. lives. david, for now, thank you so much- the — lives. david, for now, thank you so much. the broadcaster _ lives. david, for now, thank you so much. the broadcaster doctor- lives. david, for now, thank you so much. the broadcaster doctor phil| much. the broadcaster doctor phil hammond met michael mosley early in his television career and the pair worked on and trust me i'm a doctor, thank you so much forjoining us. this must have been very shocking news to you. it this must have been very shocking news to yon-— news to you. it and very sad. particularly _ news to you. it and very sad. particularly here _ news to you. it and very sad. particularly here in _ news to you. it and very sad. particularly here in clare's i news to you. it and very sad. - particularly here in clare's praise of mike but his legacy lives on, as everyone is saying. his infections enthusiasm and love of science and his unique skill to explain it. i met him in 1995, i hadjust his unique skill to explain it. i met him in 1995, i had just broken the story of the bristol heart scandal in private eye and outed myself and came up with this idea of a show called trust me a doctor, and he wanted to present it and talk about lifestyle measures you can take full stop he wanted to challenge the medical establishment, he wanted to talk about huge inequalities in health care and bristol is about child heart surgery but because we knew all... where all the bodies were hit as it were hidden, we exposed it inequalities in all sorts of areas, such as cancer care, heart disease care. he had quite a profound influence in bringing up things like the national institute for care in excellence and the quality control measures that followed. that sort of forgotten now because he moved on to predominate over lifestyle stuff but early on his career he was quite political and quite mysterious, every episode he had what he would politely call the you expletive a story where we would talk about some area of the nhs doing very well and other areas not doing quite so well and saying what diy can't ever be a decent standard? his encyclopedic knowledge, he was a very good editors work with because he was across all the stories in minute detail of appears very enthusiastic and i was not surprised when he became a presenter itself and stop you as a gift of communication. as david sillitoe said. the number of events where people who were at events where people who were at events not to get autograph books but to say thank you so a fitting legacy is that if we want the nhs to survive in future, everyone is putting their money on prevention but instead of pulling people out of the river of illness we need to stop you from getting in the first place. that was michael's thing. he shied away from party policies we need to politicise his advice. we absolutely need to throw everything into prevention. wheat the advice he had, we need to make available to every body. so we can improve the general health rates. that legacy will live on. people remember him and people smile. anyone will met that —— everybody who met mike would always smile because you are such a generous person but he had no slightly infectious and impish laugh. i'm very sad but i'm also very proud and lucky to have had him in my life and an absolute joy of working with him. he in my life and an absolute 'oy of working with him.�* working with him. he 'ust came across as somebody, _ working with him. he just came across as somebody, and - working with him. he just came across as somebody, and i - working with him. he just came | across as somebody, and i think working with him. he just came - across as somebody, and i think your comments they justify this, across as somebody, and i think your comments theyjustify this, he just really cared about people and wanted them to be as healthy as they could possibly be. them to be as healthy as they could possibly be— possibly be. people who give up medicine are _ possibly be. people who give up medicine are always _ possibly be. people who give up medicine are always slightly - possibly be. people who give up l medicine are always slightly guilty and in the start he did ppe first and in the start he did ppe first and then he may try banking and then moved into medicine he wanted to be a psychiatrist but he found front line psychiatry at that time a bit disillusioning so he wasn't sure whether to take a house job or apply to the bbc and he got onto the bbc training programme. ithink to the bbc and he got onto the bbc training programme. i think he felt that slight guilt and having invested all their time in a medical training, he wanted to do something with it was double that we are a bit sniffy about tv doctors, the best ones reach far more than an average gp, an average gp will see about a0 or 50 people a day is a good broadcast you can reach millions. and if you get your message rights, and if you do it in a way that empowers and encourages people to make small changes, it is just a brilliant title, just one thing, just one thing at a time small incremental changes in your life can improve your health. . improve your health. he incremental changes in your life can improve your health. he although he wasn't a practising nhs doctor he probably helped more patients than most of us with a lifetime of dedication to the nhs. he was very modest about it and as a people have said, he did not seek fame or fortune, he was very successful what he did. it wasjust fortune, he was very successful what he did. it was just what mac he was almost like an enthusiastic stock school kid, he would go down a rabbit hole and ferret out this bit of research and be very excited about it, hejust love of research and be very excited about it, he just love the process of science and he loved explaining it. he will be missed but as i say, his legacy will live on.— his legacy will live on. doctor phil hammond. _ his legacy will live on. doctor phil hammond, thank— his legacy will live on. doctor phil hammond, thank you _ his legacy will live on. doctor phil hammond, thank you very - his legacy will live on. doctor phil hammond, thank you very much, j his legacy will live on. doctor phil. hammond, thank you very much, we really appreciate your time on bbc news today. let's just bring you this statement from the chief content 0fficer this statement from the chief content officer at the bbc, charlotte moore, she says we are deeply saddened about the news of doctor michael mosley and our thoughts about his family and friends at this difficult time. she goes on to say that michael worked closely with bbc radio a and the science unit for many years on ground—breaking science and health problems from medical mavericks, eat fast live longer and inside michael mosley and the young ones to trust me a doctor. he also made regular appearances on morning live, the one show, and of course, presented his own hugely popular and successful bbc radio a and bbc sound is a pod cast, just one thing. she says he was a brilliant science broadcaster and programme maker, able to make most of complex idea is simple. he was also passionate about engaging and entertaining audiences inspiring us all to live healthier, fuller lives. his entertaining and accessible style was enjoyed by all audiences around the world and he will be hugely missed by many people. not least those fortunate enough to have worked with him at the bbc. the bbc news life page has the bbc. the bbc news life page has the latest from our correspondence joe inwood who we saw a little earlier and tributes to michael mosley as they come in. you can go online to the bbc news website or app online to the bbc news website or app to view that now. let's move other news. the hamas—run health ministry in gaza says 27a palestinians were killed during saturday's israeli offensive on the nuseirat refugee camp. the operation led to the rescue of four israeli hostages taken by hamas during the october 7th attacks — were freed during the raid, in broad daylight. israel has previously estimated there were fewer than a hundred casualties. footage from the area's al—aqsa hospital shows badly wounded people laying on the ground. the eu's top diplomat, josep borrell has condemned the killings, describing them as "another massacre of civilians". 0ur correspondentjon donnison has more on the reaction in israel from jerusalem. it's been one of celebration and relief, not least for the families and friends of the four hostages who were freed, whose loved ones had been held for some 2a6 days. it's also, i think, been a boost for prime minister netanyahu because it enables him to say that his strategy is working. he believes that the best way to get the remaining hostages in gaza and the remaining 116 people who were captured on october 7th being held in gaza, some a0 or so of them are thought to be dead. he says the best way to get them out is to apply military pressure on hamas. and this operation yesterday enables him to say that that is working. it should also be said, though, that the mood is completely different in gaza. there is absolute outrage at what they see as a massacre of civilians. we've seen scores of dead and injured being taken into the two hospitals that you heard from the doctor a short moment ago, desperate scenes of the wounded being brought in, bloodied. we saw people diving for cover as missiles rained in as this raid was taking place and bodies strewn in the street and also strong with condemnation from the eu's top diplomat, josep borell, describing this as a massacre and saying the bloodbath had to end immediately. that was immediately criticised, though, by one israeli minister. he said, shame on you to mr borrell. he said, instead of condemning hamas for holding hostages in civilian neighbourhoods, he was attacking israel for simply trying to rescue its citizens. let's speak to yossi beilin in tel aviv. he is a former israeli cabinet minister and peace negotiator. he initiated the oslo peace process and the informal geneva peace accord. thank you very much for your time on here on bbc news. t