this is bbc news. i'm duncan golestani. our top stories: more than 100 people are feared dead in a plane crash in cuba. the boeing 737 came down shortly after ta ke—off in havana the boeing 737 came down shortly after take—off in havana. a high school shooting in texas leaves ten dead. the suspected shooter is a 17—year—old pupil. we shouldn't be going through this, it's my school. this is my daily life, i shouldn't have to feel like that. also in the programme: with hours to go before the royal wedding, prince harry and his best man go walkabout, while the bride—to—be goes to a country hotel. hello and welcome to bbc world news. around 100 people are feared dead in cuba, after a passenger plane crashed on take off in havana.

the plane was on an internal flight heading to the east of the island from jose marti international airport. three people were pulled alive from the wreckage and are now in a critical condition in hospital. 0ur cuba correspondent will grant reports. 104 passengers, several crewmembers, just three survivors. it was immediately 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. a little earlier, the travel show‘s simon calder gave this update

about the boeing 737 involved. the 737 is broadly the most successful passenger aircraft ever built, it has generally got a very good safety record. this particular version, the 737— 200 is very, very old in aircraft terms, the particular plane was built in 1988 for southwest airlines in the united states, it has flown for a number of different airline since then, including air kazakhstan. it is owned and operated by a mexican company based in guadalajara, and they basically hired out the plane and the crew to the cuban national airline cubana. in terms of scheduled aircraft crashes they have

had 18 years of safety, but before that, the last three years of the 20th century were particularly bleak, they had four fatal accidents including two in one week at the end of 1999. and speaking to aviation officials on the island, they say, we have a challenge to maintain our aircraft and the way that we were wanting to do, because of the co nsta nt u s wanting to do, because of the constant us embargo and the fact that a lot of the parts and things are simply not as available as they might be. it is very much an operation that is kept going through great skill, rather than a large amount of resources. the travel show‘s simon calder. to texas, where ten people have been killed in another school shooting. it took place at the santa fe high school, south of houston. nine of the dead were pupils at the school — the tenth was a teacher.

the shooter has been named as a 17—year—old student at the school, he's now in police custody. james cook 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 wouldn't 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 police officer. authorities said a suspect had been arrested, but the threat was not over. there have been explosive devices found in the high school and surrounding areas adjacent to the high school. because of the threat of these explosive items, community members should be on the lookout. for any suspicious items. the president appeared on cameras, again. the most and least powerful person on earth. we grieve for the loss of life

and send our support and love to 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. he is accused of stealing his father ‘s possum —— father's firearms, a shotgun and a revolver to commit this mass murder. texas has some of the most lax gun laws in the western world. right outside the school, and emotional battle over the right an emotional battle over the right to bear arms raged on. what was going through your head when you found out this was going on? get to the school, make america great again. by doing what, what was your plan of action? offering support, god bless you all, thank you, i'm going to head this way.

this guy right here saying "make america great again" doesn't make america great, carrying a flag with a pistol when we have 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. 0ur correspondent peter bowes gave me the latest. we know now that the suspect has been taken to galveston countyjail on suspicion of capital murder. if he is officially charged and found guilty, that means he could face the death penalty. there are two other people who have been described as people who have been described as people of interest, persons of interest, one who was at the school and has been questioned, apparently reacted in a suspicious way, and a

third person who was not at the school, and we understand will also be questioned. in the meantime the police have been investigating suspicious devices, explosive devices that have been found on the campus and around the building, and warnings going out to local people that these could be extremely dangerous, to stay away from them, and the work continues to try and make the area safe. the investigators have also been looking into the social media accounts of the suspect, and he has posted some disturbing things about guns and being" want to kill", so that his one line of investigation. we also understand that the guns that he used, he did not personally owned them legally but got them from his father, it seems his father did have those weapons legally. and those are the key lines of investigation in a situation that has been moving very fast. and of course that school shooting in florida in february

still fresh in everyone's mines? yes, 17 people killed and of course as we all know that really prompted an outburst of anger from so many people, not least the students of that school who took to the streets, they went to washington, dc, some of them that the present to make their views known about gun control in america —— president, a political campaign was started like we have not seen before, and already on social media we are seeing people questioning whether anything has really changed. there were some changes like bump stocks, the devices that will turn a semiautomatic weapon into a machine—gun, they have been banned, at many people are saying the competent state and could go much further. —— trump administration. with just 12 hours to go before saturday's royal wedding and prince harry and meghan markle are now in windsor as final preparations are made for their big day. after much speculation, ms markle has asked prince charles to walk her down the aisle.

her father, thomas markle, is unable to attend the wedding due to ill health. from windsor, our royal correspondent nicholas witchell. 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. good wishes were offered, hands were shaken. children in particular were singled out for attention. and then, afamiliar singled out for attention. and then, a familiarface singled out for attention. and then, afamiliarface in singled out for attention. and then, a familiar face in the crowd seems to have been spotted. a familiar face in deed, though not quite what it seemed. harry and william said their farewells to the crowd, if there were any last—minute nerves they certainly were not visible. and as the groom and his best man headed

for their hotel, so the bride, meghan markle and her mother arrived at theirs. it has been an at times bumpy week for the markle family, with the uncertain seas and ultimate withdrawal from the service of meghan's father. but mother and daughter who both met the queen footy today seemed relaxed. it will be prince charles who escorts miss 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. she will walk the first

part of the aisle through the nave, accompanied by the ten bridesmaids and pageboys. then 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 then the archbishop of canterbury will declare them to be husband and wife. there had been speculation that she might have walked her daughter to the altar, and for wedding watchers in windsor, there was some disappointment that she is not. we would like to see her mum walk her 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, hey 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 if she prefers not to, i think it is wonderful that prince charles is doing it. so now it is just the finishing touches to be put to plans which have been worked on for months. windsor is preparing for crowds on a possibly 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 escorting the newly married couple on the carriage procession. it is a royal wedding to be celebrated and enjoyed. and tonight with just hours to go, a good many in windsor were settling down for the night, in preparation for harry and meghan's big day

tomorrow. stay with us on bbc news, still to come: we will have more on the wedding in windsor, including tea parties, fa ncy windsor, including tea parties, fancy hats and 20 bunting as people get ready to celebrate the royal wedding. the pope was shot, the pope will live. that is the essence of the appalling news from rome this afternoon, that, as italian television put it, terrorism had come to the vatican. the mandate called the butcher of leon, klaus barbie, went on trial today in the town where he was the gestapo chief in the second world war. winnie mandela never looked like a woman just sentenced to six years in jail. the judge told ms mandela there was fio the judge told ms mandela there was no indication she felt even the slightest morse. the chinese government has called throw—in all—out effort to help victims of a powerful earthquake, the worst in

the country for 30 years. the computer a deep blue has tonight triumphed over world chess champion garry kasparov, the first time a machine has defeated a raining world champion ina machine has defeated a raining world champion in a classical chess match. america's first legal same—sex m essa 9 es america's first legal same—sex messages have been taking place in massachusetts. god bless america! this is bbc news. the latest headlines: more than 100 people are feared dead in a plane crash in cuba. the boeing 737 came down shortly after ta ke—off in havana a high school shooting in texas leaves ten dead. the suspected shooter is a 17—year—old pupil. the former russian spy, sergei skripal, has been discharged from hospital. he was left critically ill for over ten weeks, following his exposure to a nerve agent in the uk city of salisbury. his daughter yulia, who was also poisoned, was discharged last month.

britain has accused russia of being behind the attack, something moscow denies. daniel sandford reports. when they were first poisoned with a military—grade nerve agent almost 11 weeks ago, there were concerns they might not survive. but now, 5.5 weeks after his daughter, sergei skripal has also been discharged from hospital. the staff here, when the skripals first came in, would have been dealing with something that, to be honest, no other clinicians in the world have seen before. and so they really did an incredible job in taking the unknown and working through treatment and maintaining life—saving therapy to get the result that we've seen today. i understand that sergei skripal has spoken at length with detectives now, and can walk, but he's not completely well and no—one knows what the long—term effects on his health will be. in russia, president putin said of the man who had spied for britain, "god grant him good health", and said that if a military—grade nerve agent had been used —

as the british government claims — then the skripals would have died on the spot. the russian ambassador in london said embassy officials still want to see the skripals. we want, er, just to understand how they feel, and we want them to tell personally what they want. sergei skripal‘s house, which police believe was the scene of the crime, remains abandoned. his front door has been taken away to the chemical weapons laboratory at porton down for examination. and counterterrorism detectives have warned that their investigation could take many more months. the skripals are currently hidden in a safe location, and police won't discuss their security arrangements. the motive for the attack, which left parts of salisbury

resembling a disaster movie, remains unclear, but sergei skripal had continued to brief military and intelligence officers on russia. and this evening, small areas of the city he made his home are still cordoned off, awaiting a deep clean. daniel sandford, bbc news, salisbury. three new cases of ebola have been confirmed in the city of mbandaka in the democratic republic of congo. in total, the world health 0rganization says it'll be monitoring more than 500 people who've come into contact with ebola. they could be among the first to get an experimental new vaccine. at least 11 people are thought to have been killed during a riot at a prison in western venezuela. it's the country's second prison riot this week. on wednesday an uprising was staged at the helicoide prison complex in caracas, which is the headquarters of venezuela's secret service. both prisons are said to be back under the control of the authorities. let's get more now

on the royal wedding, with final preparations under way in windsor. 0ur reporter andy moore is on the long walk in windsor, where the royal procession will be passing later today. there certainly are a little of the all here. you can see the castle floodlit behind me in the distance. as you say, we are here on long walk, which has been renamed by some people here as long wait. there are a lot of people camping out tonight, fairly chilly this evening but people are bedding down and getting ready for the big day later on. let's talk to one family, three generations of royal watches here. first of all, let's talk to grandma jill. this is nothing new to you, you have been to lots of royal weddings before? my mother took me to princess margaret's, and we camped out overnight when our daughter was very little for andrew and fergie. then we had welland

kate, seven years ago. and here we are with the children, for their first time. you yourself have seen three generations of royal is getting married? three generations, absolutely, yes. i blame my mother, she dragged me to everything so i'm dragging them now. what is so special about it? why do you do it? there is such aid does here today. it was the same when we were on the mall, that people are lovely, sharing things, it isjust a real community spirit, and we love the royals as well. 0k, community spirit, and we love the royals as well. ok, let's community spirit, and we love the royals as well. 0k, let'sjust talk to karen. karen, what do you think of the atmosphere on an occasion like this? it can't be beaten. fabulously british, you make friends with people whom you will never meet again. this lady behind me, apparently we were on the mall together at william and kate's wedding a few yards from each other, but we didn't know. it is lovely and wonderful, making friends. some people might say, why would you go to all this effort when you will see

the royal couple from aba few seconds? to experience the atmosphere and the fun and the buzz of it. it is good to get excited about stuff, to find stuff that makes you happy. there is the bubbly going! i think that is important in life. you have to find fun stuff and celebrate things. i am a great believer in salivating marriage and i'm happy for harry and megan. greasy, why are you here? —— gracie. are you looking forward to the wedding? yeah, i'm really looking forward to the wedding. what are you looking forward to? i'm looking forward to mostly everything, well, everything, really. but i'm really looking forward to seeing megan's dress. do you think you will be able to get any sleep tonight? probably... maybe a tiny bit, not much. royal fans royalfans on royal fans on the long walk in windsor, talking to our

correspondent, andy moore. —— long walk. more than two and a half thousand members of the public have been invited as guest is to the wedding. anita campbell went to meet a few of them. what better way to start this weekend's wedding celebrations than with a tea party, making the most of the sunny weather, the royals here in windsor gearing up for the big day for months. 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.

we need to talk about why, or how, prince harry and meghan, er, this force for good that i mentioned earlier on. 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! adina campbell, bbc news. stay with us here on bbc world news. fellow there. we ended the week on a

lovely note, thanks to this big area of high pressure which will still be with us during the weekend and for money this into next week as well. weather watcher photos poring through of the glorious sunset up and down the uk. you can see how beautiful the skies were to end friday. as we had on into the weekend we are going to see more of the same for many of us, strong sunshine and a bit warmer as well. as we head into the early hours of saturday there will be a bit more cloud across northern and western parts of scotland. more of a breeze here as well. not too bad with temperatures around double figures, i think, for most. further south, particularly in eastern areas, it is going to be another chilly start to saturday, maybe even a touch of grass frost in places and also a bit of mist and fog too. there is a big area of high pressure with us to start the weekend. keeping these weather fronts at bay for now, until

weather fronts at bay for now, until we reach sunday. a glorious looking day for the royal wedding in winds are. a bit of cloud around, temperatures should rise with your strong sunshine. it is looking pretty good for the scottish cup final and the fa cup final, with temperatures reaching 19 or 20 celsius. this is the picture for saturday. you can see there is plenty of cloud in the sky to start the day across england, wales and southern scotland. high cloud developing here and there which could make the sunshine hazy at times. across the north—west corner of scotla nd times. across the north—west corner of scotland is where we will see the thickest of the cloud, so temperatures will be 15 or 16 at best. eastern scotland, 20 degrees, england and wales looking at 21 or 22. that area of high pressure shifts further east. it will influence the weather across much of england and wales, but these weather fronts will be allowed to push in across northern ireland and much of scotland. we will see more of a breeze and outbreaks of rain, particularly across north—western scotland. the north—east of scotland shouldn't be too bad, with some sunshine. elsewhere across the

country, another fine looking sunshine. elsewhere across the country, anotherfine looking day, with top temperatures of 22 or maybe 23 degrees, and lots of low cloud across the far south—east, but that should turn up as you go north up the coast. 0n should turn up as you go north up the coast. on monday, this weather front across parts of northern ireland and northern and western scotla nd ireland and northern and western scotland will stay put. persistent rain there. elsewhere, a fine day once again. good sunny spells, but if you sharp showers or thunderstorms developing across southern areas later ron in the day as temperatures reach highs of 23 or maybe 2a celsius. that weather front will continue to plague much of scotla nd will continue to plague much of scotland and northern ireland for the week ahead. high pressure will dominate the scene elsewhere. plenty of warm sunshine but always the threat of heavy showers. this is bbc news, the headlines: cuban state tv says more than 100 people have died in a plane crash in havana. the accident happened shortly after take—off. three people who were pulled alive from the wreckage are being treated for critical injuries. ten people have been killed in a shooting at a high school in santa fe in texas.

the shooter, a student, has been arrested and another person has been detained for questioning. ahead of tomorrow's royal wedding, prince harry and his brother and best man prince william have been meeting well—wishers in the english town of windsor. crowds are gathering for the event to take place. and it's been announced that prince charles will walk meghan markle down the aisle at the wedding. the bride—to—be asked the heir to the british throne after her own father had to pull out of the ceremony for health reasons. now on bbc news: talking movies.