this is bbc news, i'm martine croxall. the headlines at eleven: princes harry and william step out to greet the waiting crowds over 100 people are feared dead after a passengerjet crashes shortly after take—off in the cuban capital havana. ten people have been killed in a high school shooting in texas — the majority of the dead are students. and on newsnight, we learn that three former ministers who have left the cabinet in the last six months are hatching a plan to avoid a hard reset. —— brexit. good evening and welcome to bbc news. prince harry has been meeting royal

well—wishers outside windsor castle as he prepares for his wedding to meghan markle tomorrow. a more private meeting has also taken place today, as the queen and duke of edinburgh welcomed ms markle and her mother doria at windsor castle. and this morning, we learned that the prince of wales will accompany the bride down the aisle at tomorrow's ceremony, after her own father pulled out, citing ill health. our royal correspondent nicholas witchell reports on the final preparations. the night before his wedding, and this evening, harry emerged from windsor castle to meet the crowds. he was accompanied by his brother and best man, prince william. some of those high and the railings, and these are the most enthusiastic royal fa ns, and these are the most enthusiastic royal fans, been waiting for several days, waiting for moments like this, a weight which at least has been made a little easier by the spring

weather. the biggest royal event staged here in recent times. the choreography is complete. harry and megan leaving kensington palace for winter this afternoon were evidently incomplete agreement that the absent father of the bride should be replaced by the father of the groom. it will be prince charles who escorts ms markle to the altar. a statement from kensington palace said: this is how it will work. ms markle will enter the chapel through the great west door, ms markle will enter the chapel through the great west door. she will walk the first part of the aisle and at the choir

screen on the left of the picture, prince charles willjoin her and escort her through the most historic part of the chapel to where harry will be waiting for his bride. they will stand just there, by the chapel‘s high altar. they will exchange their marriage vows and the archbishop of canterbury will declare them to be husband and wife. for the bride that solemn moment of her marriage into the british royal family will be witnessed i only one member of her own, her mother doria ragland. she was at windsor castle this afternoon to tea with the queen. they had been speculation she may have walked her daughter to the altar, and there was some disappointment that she is not. we would have liked to see her mum walk down the aisle, or walk herself down the aisle. if it were me i would be pleased with charles walking me... you know, it is the father figure,

you know what i'm saying? and it means that he meghan, i love you, you love my son, welcome to the royal family. i think whatever her mother was comfortable with, if she wanted to, that would have been good, but i think it is good that prince charles is doing it. so now it is just the finishing touches, to the plans which has been worked on for months. when there is preparing for months. when there is preparing for crowds on a possible er unprecedented scale. police have launched one of the biggest security operations mounted by the thames valley force. the military who will be on parade are back in barracks, getting ready. these are the household cavalry soldiers who will be walking —— escorting the newly married couple down the marriage procession. it is a royal wedding to be celebrated and enjoyed. just one more night on the pavement, try to keep awake: tomorrow is harry and meghan‘s big day. among the guests arriving on the grounds of windsor castle

tomorrow will be members of the public. more than 2,000 were selected from around the country — some of them as a reward for services to their community. our community affairs correspondent adina campbell has been to meet some of them to see how they are feeling. what better way to start this weekend's wedding celebrations than with a tea party? making the most of the sunny weather, the royal school, here in windsor, has been gearing up for the big day for months. some have even been invited. and what are you going to be wearing? er, we're going to be wearing our school uniforms. and somebody‘s ironed a nice badge on... 0n the school, erm... summer uniforms. and we're going to be wearing straw hats. and hats. and they have this advice for meghan. it's a very new world to her because she used to live in america, now she's in the uk, in england, and it's going to be very different. she'll probably have to change her accent, i think, from american. yeah. and she needs to, like, fit in, but i think she's already doing that well.

yeah. we need to talk about why, or how, prince harry and meghan, er, this force for good that i mentioned earlier on. yeah. up in bolton is 21—year—old saeed atcha. he's been running this young people's magazine for the last seven years and got the idea because he felt there was a lack of positive stories about teenagers. his work has also earned him an invite to windsor tomorrow. you never do what you do for recognition, you do it to change lives of young people. and when you get that kind of recognition, it was like, wow, 0k, someone's actually believing in what i'm doing! i think that meghan and prince harry are a power couple, absolutely. and i've seen them both speak at events before they were a couple, and meghan was talking about racial inequality and female empowerment, and i thought... i didn't know who she was and i thought, that's fantastic! are these for the wedding? yes, this is especially for the wedding. and i'm hoping maybe to give a few away on that day to people who i think deserve to be given

a handkerchief from studio 306... in north london, pamela anomneze is also getting ready for this weekend's nuptials. she runs this creative therapy workshop to improve people's mental health. tomorrow, she'll be taking her son, jude, as part of the day out, but says she was shocked when she received the invite last month. i believed this might be just an april fool prank. it's a joke. why would i be invited to a royal wedding?! oh, my gosh! i bless them a million times. i love both of them, actually. iwas, like, well, prince harry's lucky! he's a lucky man! now, the most important question, what are you going to be wearing? african and english design. so, you wait for that day, you will be so jealous of my beautiful outfit! a plane carrying more than 100 people has crashed in cuba.

the domestic flight — which was headed for the city of holguin in the east of the island crashed after taking off from havana's main airport. three people have been pulled alive from the wreckage, and are seriously injured. 0ur cuba correspondent will grant reports. 104 passengers, several crewmembers, just three survivors. it was immediately clear this with cuba's clear this was cuba's worst plane crash since the 1980s. the 737 had barely been in the airfor more than one minute before it came down, crashing into a field outside havana's airport. children in a nearby school had a narrow escape. their screams and nervous laughter obvious on their mobile phone footage. local people came to offer what help they could. the emergency services arrived in droves. in the end, though, there was little anyone could do. translation: this is catastrophic.

this should never happen. i never imagined something like this. this is a terrible tragedy. imagine. we are very emotional. cubans, so used to turning to the castros in times of crisis, now have a new president. it fell to him to bear the bad news. translation: we have to wait. the news is not very promising, because a lot of people seem to have died. that is why, in the name of the government, and the party, i express our condolences. this was a domestic flight. run by cuba's state aviation company with a plane leased from a mexican firm on its way to the eastern city of holguin when he came down. the communist run government's fleet in cuba largely dates from the soviet era. much of it ageing and in poor condition. at this stage, though, there is no indication why so many families are now grieving, why a routine flight on a short hop across the island ended in this tragedy.

ten pupils have been killed after a shooting by a student at a high school in texas, and another ten injured. the suspected gunman is in custody, and local reports suggest he is 17. explosive devices have also been found at the school and in the surrounding areas. president trump has expressed his "sadness and heartbrea k" at the shooting, which took place a0 miles south of houston at santa fe high school. james cooke reports. the calls came in just before 8am. again. a gunman on the campus. this time at santa fe high school. police searching schoolbags for deadly weapons. for the united states, this is now routine,

but no less terrifying for its familiarity. i shouldn't be going through this at my school. this is my daily life, i shouldn't have to feel like that. and i'm so scared to even go back. was there a part of you that's like, "this isn't real, this shouldn't would not happen at my school"? no, there wasn't. why so? it has been happening everywhere. i always kind of felt like eventually it was going to happen here, too. the teachers screamed at us to run, so we all took off. i ran through someone's yard and jumped their fence. the emergency services poured onto campus, again. among the injured, a school pleas others. ——police officer. the authorities said a suspect was arrested, but the threat was not over. there have been explosive devices found in the high school and surrounding areas adjacent of the school.

because of the threat of these explosive items, community members should be on the lookout. the president appeared on cameras, again. we grieve for the loss of life and send our support and love for everyone affected by this absolutely horrific attack. this is the suspected gunman. his story too is familiar. dimitrios pagourtzis, 17 years old, a talented american football player who studied at santa fe high school. his social media posts were disturbing. his journals apparently included a plan for a suicidal shooting at his school. texas has some of the most lax gun laws in the western world. right outside the school, an emotional battle over the right to bear arms waged on. what was going through your head when you found out this was going on. get to the school, make america great again. offering

support, i'm going to head this way, god bless you all. this guy right here, saying make america great, walking down the street with a pistol, when we just had a shooting, thatis pistol, when we just had a shooting, that is disgusting. more americans have been killed in school shootings this year than have died serving the us military. this country is struggling to explain the inexplicable, again. theresa may has this evening appointed 13 new peers to serve in the house of lords. alongside three labour and one dup colleague — there will be nine new conservative peers. the appointments follow 15 recent defeats inflicted on the government's brexit plans in the upper chamber. the new tory peers include the former mps peter lilley, sir eric pickles and sir edward garnier. they'll be joined by three new labour peers. that's a summary of the news, the film review is coming up

at quarter to midnight, with newsday at midnight — now on bbc news it's time for newsnight with emily maitlis. tonight, newsnight learns that three former ministers who've left cabinet in the last six months, are hatching a plan to present to theresa may. amber rudd, justine greening and the prime minister's former deputy, damian green, are on manoeuvres. will they manage to thwart a hard brexit? also tonight... the party started by a clown is about to govern italy with a party of the far right. it's a big ask. can it really work? thank you so much. can i have mine in that? certainly. and a huge weekend for sports fans and monarchists. newsnight has the mash—up. we've taken the football pundits to the royal wedding. but here's what happened when we took the royal commentators to the beautiful game. they're off and they're kicking the ball. the guys in blue have got it at the moment and it's going over there.

no, the guys in white have taken it over. this is of course the excitement you get in a game like this. 0h! somebody has picked it up. are they allowed to do that? i think they probably are. good evening. newsnight has learnt that a group of former cabinet ministers is hatching a plan to prove that the conservative parliamentary party would support a moderate brexit. justine greening, amber rudd and damian green want to show the prime minister that she would have sufficient support to face down brexit hardliners in her cabinet and party, including the vocal european research group led by jacob rees—mogg. the alliance of the former cabinet ministers who supported remain have decided to act, after concluding that it would be