This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Nick Miles and in the early hours of Thursday, the 29th of 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

the opening ceremony of the

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 skim 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 Mr 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.

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