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

I'm Valerie Sanderson and at 13 hours GMT on Sunday the 14th of July.

This is a special edition of the Global Newspot.

Donald Trump urges Americans to unite in the face of wickedness

after he narrowly survives an assassination attempt.

There's been international condemnation of the attack which took place at a rally in the US.

President Joe Biden said,

There's no place in America for this kind of violence. It's sick.

We look at the implications for the election campaign and we ask how was the

gunman able to get so close. Donald Trump says evil will not be allowed to win after he survived an attempt on his life during an outdoor rally in Pennsylvania.

One person in the crowd was killed and two others are in a critical condition. The attacker who opened

fire from a nearby rooftop was shot dead. The FBI has identified him as

20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks from Pennsylvania. Investigators are working to

establish a motive. Our correspondent Gary O'Donohue was at the rally. Just minutes

into the rally shots rang out across this outdoor venue.

You want to really see something that said, take a look what happened. Donald Trump clutched at the side of his head. He then hit the ground.

Secret Service personnel piling on top of him, their job to put their bodies between him and

the shooter.

Then he was up on his feet, blood at his right ear and his fist raised, whisked away

to hospital.

In the minutes after one eyewitness Greg the owner of a local business

told us something extraordinary.

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