2024-08-29
30 分钟The FBI said the gunman who tried to kill Donald Trump last month had searched extensively online for events by the former US president and Joe Biden. Also: the 2024 Paralympics opening ceremony lights up Paris.
This is the global news podcast from the BBC World Service.
I'm Nick Miles, and in the early hours of Thursday the 29 August.
These are our main stories.
The FBI says the gunman who tried to kill Donald Trump saw the former president's rally in Pennsylvania as a target of opportunity and had also carried out extensive research online into Joe Biden.
The palestinian president has cut short a trip to Saudi Arabia as Israel carried out its biggest military operation in the occupied West bank for more than two decades.
France has charged the founder of the Telegram messaging app as part of an investigation into organized crime.
Also in this podcast in France, the opening ceremony of the Paralympic Games has taken place in Paris, if not for a slight turn of the head when addressing a republican rally in Pennsylvania in July, the bullet that skimmed the ear of the former us president Donald Trump may well have killed him.
Now, a little more has been revealed about the man who shot the gun.
Among other details, an FBI investigation found that 20 year old Thomas Crooks had an extensive online search history of a number of other political events featuring Mister Trump, as well as the current us president, Joe Biden.
So how much has this all revealed about why he did it?
I heard more from our correspondent in Washington, John Sudworth.
Well, we sort of learned how little they've learned.
In a nutshell, you know, we're six weeks on from the shooting.
They told us that they had trawled through years worth of the shooter's social media and online postings.
They had interviewed nearly a thousand people, family members, acquaintances, witnesses, and they had trawled through hundreds of hours of video footage.
But despite all of that, they have drawn almost a complete blank on motive.
They say there is no evidence to show there were any co conspirators, no evidence of any foreign involvement.
It appears that 20 year old Thomas Crookes was acting alone.
But why he was acting in his attempt to kill a former us president, they are no nearer to knowing, given.
That they didn't have anything earth shattering to reveal.