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hello, this is bbc news. i'm duncan golestani. our top stories: harry, harry! the final countdown to the royal wedding. prince harry talks to the crowds outside windsor castle. good evening, miss markle. how are you feeling tonight? while meghan markle and her mum arrive at the country house hotel where they're spending the night. in other news: more than 100 people are feared dead after a plane crashes shortly after ta ke—off from havana. ten people have been killed at a school shooting in texas. a 17—year—old pupil has been charged with murder. hello and welcome to bbc news.
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we'll be looking at other developing stories later in this programme. but first, hundreds of people, hoping to grab a prime spot for prince harry's wedding to meghan markle, are camping overnight outside windsor castle. ms markle will be walked down the aisle by prince charles. her own father is unable to attend the ceremony following heart surgery. our royal correspondent nicholas witchell reports from windsor. the night before his wedding and, this evening, prince harry, accompanied by his brother and best man, prince william, emerged from windsor castle to meet the crowds. good wishes were offered and hands were shaken. children in particular were singled out for attention. and then, what's this? a familiar face in the crowd had been spotted. a familiar face indeed, although not quite what it seemed. you would hardly find her in an ice cream parlour on windsor high street!
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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, doria raglan, arrived at theirs. good evening, ms markle, how are you doing tonight? it has been an at times bumpy week for the markle family, with the uncertainties and ultimate withdrawal from the service of meghan‘s father. but mother and daughter who both met the queen for tea today seemed relaxed. the absence of mr markle means meghan‘s mother is the only member of the family who will be at the wedding. it was this morning, as windsor basks in the spring sunshine that the final pieces of the wedding jigsaw fitted into place with the announcement that prince charles would escort meghan markle to the altar. a statement from kensington palace said: this is how it will work.
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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 maybe meghan would ask her mother to escort her to the altar, and among the wedding watchers in windsor, there was some disappointment she had not done so. we would like to see her mum walk her down the aisle,
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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 lovely, 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
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for harry and meghan‘s big day tomorrow. our news reporter andy moore is on the long walk in windsor, where the royal procession will be passing later today. he's been speaking to some of those camping out. there certainly are a lot of people 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 watchers 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?
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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 will and kate, seven years ago. and here we are with the children, for theirfirst time. you yourself have seen three generations of royals getting married ? three generations, absolutely, yes. i blame my mother, she dragged me to everything so i'm dragging them now! what's so special about it? why do you do it? there is such a buzz here today. it was the same when we were on the mall, the people are lovely, sharing things, it'sjust a real community spirit, and we love the royals as well. ok, let's just 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's lovely and wonderful, making friends. some people might say,
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why would you go to all this effort when you will see the royal couple for maybe a few seconds? to experience the atmosphere and the fun and the buzz of it. it's good to get excited about stuff, to find stuff that makes you happy. champagne cork pops off-screen. there's the bubbly going! i think that's important in life. you have to find fun stuff and celebrate things. i'm a great believer in celebrating marriage and i'm happy for harry and meghan. gracie, why are you here? 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 meghan's dress. do you think you will be able to get any sleep tonight? um, probably... maybe a tiny bit, not much. some of those camping out on the
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long walk in windsor. among the guests arriving on the grounds of windsor castle in a few hours will be members of the public. more than 2000 were selected from around the uk — some of them as a reward for services to their community. adina campbell has been to meet a few of them. what's better way to start the wedding preparations than with a tea party. here in windsor, they've 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.
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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!
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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. 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?! 0ne one last thing on the royal wedding. sorry we jumped out of that too soon. we take you to windsor castle. it is all quite done. it is about
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1:10 a.m., localtime. it is all quite done. it is about 1:10 a.m., local time. you it is all quite done. it is about 1:10 a.m., localtime. you can it is all quite done. it is about 1:10 a.m., local time. you can see people over on the right camping out and some police cars on that empty road. a big security presence there. bbc world news is the place to follow the royal wedding all through saturday. stay with us on bbc news, still to come: sergei skripal, the former russian spy poisoned by a nerve agent in salisbury in the uk, has been discharged from hospital. the pope was shot, the pope will live — that's the essence of the appalling news from rome this afternoon, that, as an italian television commentator put it, terrorism had come to the vatican. the man they call the butcher of lyon, klaus barbie, went on trial today in the french town where he was the gestapo chief in the second world war. winnie mandela never looked a woman just sentenced to six years in jail. the judge told mrs mandela there was no indication she felt even the slightest remorse. the chinese government has called for an all—out effort to help the victims of a powerful
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earthquake, the worst to hit the country for 30 years. the computer deep blue has tonight triumphed over the world chess champion garry kasparov. it's the first time a machine has defeated a reigning world champion in a classical chess match. america's first legal same—sex marriages have been taking place in massachusetts. god bless america! this is bbc news. the latest headlines: prince harry is greeted with shouts of "good luck" from well—wishers as he goes on a surprise walkabout in windsor on the eve of his wedding. meanwhile, meghan markle and her mum arrive at a nearby country hotel where they are spending the night. ms markle said she was feeling "wonderful". now a look at other developing news:
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a plane with almost 120 people on board has crashed shortly after take—off from the cuban capital havana. it's being reported thatjust three people survived and are critically injured. the boeing 737 was on a domestic flight to the eastern city of holguin. 0ur correspondent will grant reports from havana. 104 passengers, several crew members, just three survivors. it was immediately clear this was cuba's worst plane crash since the 1980s. the 737 had barely been in the air for 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,
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there was little anyone could do. translation: this is catastrophic. this should never happen. i never imagined something like this. translation: 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. —— of holguin when it 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.
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will grant, bbc news. some newsjust in, and the iraqi electoral commission has announced that a political bloc led by the populist cleric muqtada al—sadr has won the country's parliamentary election. muqtada al—sadr is a long—time adversary of the united states who also opposes iranian influence in iraq. he cannot become prime minister, as he did not run in the election, though his bloc‘s victory puts him in a position to pick someone for thejob. the united nations human rights commissioner has said israel used completely disproportionate force against palestinians protesting the opening of the new us embassy in jerusalem on monday. 60 palestinians were killed and more than 2,000 were injured. zeid ra'ad al hussein was addressing a special session of the united nations human rights council which had been requested
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by arab states in response to the shootings by the israeli defence forces. president trump has expressed his "sadness and heartbrea k" at the killing of ten people at a school in texas. ten others, including a police officer, were also injured. the 17—year—old attacker has been taken into custody. he's alleged to have used a shotgun and revolver. explosives have also been found in the area around the 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 school bags for deadly weapons.
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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 of the high school. because of the threat of these explosive items,
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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. and 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 raged on. what was going through your head when you found out this was going on? get to the school. make america great again.
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by doing what? what was your plan of action? offering support. god bless you all will go a long ways for a lot of people right now. 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. james cook, bbc news. we'll let's cross to our correspondent gary 0'donoghue who is in texas for us. what more with learning about the shooting? as you could see the police are still here, they are likely to be here for some time yet to come because they are still searching this area. you will know because of those explosive devices
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that have been found, associated with the shooter, these pipe bombs, these pressure cooker bombs and indeed is molotov pop tales of other cannot be sure they have found everything so it is a pretty rural setting here, we are out really of the town itself, there are a lot of fields around here is about continuing to check. they are also continuing to check. they are also continuing to check. they are also continuing to search to properties and a trailer, we understand. in the last hour or so what we have also discovered is the suspect has appeared in court for the first time. he was read his rights, he signed to the fact that he had had his rights read to him, he wasn't granted bail, and he will be a range to appearagain in granted bail, and he will be a range to appear again in a few days time. —— arraigned. this is the latest here. still the people are wondering of course is what the motivation to what he did was, there are still around ten people in hospital, some of them still seriously injured in a serious condition and of course a lot of the trawling of the social
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media sites and all that kind of thing will continue. some worrying signs on there but also some signs of perhaps quite confused young man in terms of the iconography and the things he was posting on those sites so no things he was posting on those sites so no real things he was posting on those sites so no real answers things he was posting on those sites so no real answers yet as to why he came into this school at about 7:40am and killed nine of his fellow stu d e nts 7:40am and killed nine of his fellow students and one teacher. feelings are still raw in the united states among young people after the feathery school shooting of course. yes, it is barely three months since the parkland shooting in florida. —— february. the uprising of anger and outrage on the half of those young people that really did sweep across the country, we had marchers, school walkouts, they even produced some results in legislative terms in florida, where the age to buy a gun was raised to 21 years old. 0ther changes were make their too. some
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promises from the white house. nothing much has emerged from their so nothing much has emerged from their so far in terms of legislative proposals. again they are promising today to reinvigorate the school safety commission that they have. you would have wondered why that wasn't going full throttle after the parkland shooting anyway. at yeah, the same old questions, the same old problem, again and again and again in this country and they don't know why it keeps happening and really, one has come up with any real clear idea of to stop it happening. gary, thank you. 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 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 from salisbury. when they were first poisoned with a military—grade nerve agent
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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 incrediblejob 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
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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 counter—terrorism 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 has continued to brief military and intelligence officers on russia. —— had continued to brief military and intelligence officers on russia. and this evening, small areas of the city he made his home
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are still cordoned off, awaiting a deep clean. daniel sandford, bbc news, salisbury. large crowds of people are camping on the streets of windsor near london, you are looking at life it is of windsor where people are camping over to the right of your screen. they are trying to secure the best possible view for the wedding of queen elizabeth's grandson prince harry to the actress meghan markle. tens of millions of others around the world are expected to watch the event on television. the airto to watch the event on television. the air to the british throne prince charles will walk the american down the aisle. —— heir. and, of course, the bbc is the place to be for all things royal wedding. the ceremony is, of course, taking place on saturday and we'll bring you our special live coverage from windsor castle from 9am gmt, here on bbc world news. stay with us. hello there.
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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 many of us into next week as well. weather watcher photos pouring through of the glorious sunset up and down the uk. you can see how beautiful the skies were to end friday. as we head 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 we reach sunday. a glorious—looking day for the royal wedding in windsor. a bit of cloud around, temperatures should rise with your strong sunshine.
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it's 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 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 day, with top temperatures of 22 or maybe 23 degrees, and lots of low cloud across the far south—east,
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but that should burn up as you go north up the coast. on monday, this weather front across parts of northern ireland and northern and western scotland will stay put. persistent rain there. elsewhere, a fine day once again. good sunny spells, but a few sharp showers or thunderstorms developing across southern areas later on in the day as temperatures reach highs of 23 or maybe 2a celsius. that weather front 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: prince harry has been meeting well—wishers outside windsor castle, where he'll be marrying meghan markle tomorrow. the american actress and her mother doria have arrived at the hotel where they'll spend the night. the couple will wed at noon local time at st george's chapel in the castle. more than 100 people have died in a plane crash near hava na's international airport.
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three people have survived and are seriously injured. witnesses say the boeing 737 ran into problems shortly after take off and plunged into agricultural land next to the airport, catching fire on impact. a shooting at a high school in texas has left ten people dead and ten others wounded. the suspect, who is a 17—year—old student at the school in santa fe, has been arrested and charged with murder. he allegedly used a shotgun and a revolver from his father, who legally owned the weapons. now on bbc news it's time to click.
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