this is d.w. news live from berlin the big day arrives for britain's prince harry and his wife to be megan markel thousands of well wishers camped out overnight to secure the best viewing sponsor for the wedding of the here and some of them were treated to a surprise encounter with a groom and his brother william will go live to windsor also coming up. cuba begins

two days of national mourning after friday's plane crash which killed more than one hundred people on board officials say three people were pulled alive from the wreckage you know all we heard was one grade and next thing you know we hear boom boom boom boom boom boom it everybody just started running ten people are dead and ten others wounded after a high school shooting in the u.s. state of texas a seventeen year old suspect is in custody. and in soccer manuel neuer is back in the byron squad bunch he won't start in goal when the team take on frankford in the german to come final this evening. welcome to the show i marry an f. sixteen s. well guests have started to arrive at windsor castle ahead of the royal

wedding between prince harry and american actress megan markel six hundred people will attend the ceremony inside st george's chapel where the bride will be accompanied down the aisle in part by prince charles more than one hundred thousand people are expected to flock to the town for the royal wedding we're seeing some live pictures now of all the well wishers gathering in front of windsor castle earlier this morning queen elizabeth announced that harry has a new royal title the duke of sussex megan will become the duchess of sussex after the marriage. all right will will have our correspondent who is following all the royal wedding out there she is a very good there you are very it must joins us now from windsor for the latest so . we can see behind you all those people gathering for the royal wedding give us

a sense of the atmosphere in these final hours before this much anticipated event. all right it seems that we're having some difficulties with. communicating with our correspondent. oh you're very good now you can hear me all right well then i'll repeat my question for you quickly we just want you to describe for us the atmosphere with all the royal fans that are gathering behind you in anticipation of the wedding describe for us what it's like where you are. i have to say it's really an absolutely joyful occasion many people have traveled from really far away and some of them have stuck to gather their places over already a few days ago these people really really really want to be a year and a lot of them have come for the day and it's such

a beautiful day and people are really determined to have a good time and they're very successful i have to say very you just mentioned yourself have been a lot of people who have traveled quite far for this and we do know that there are many fans from around the world who are very excited about this wedding we have this report about a real royal fan from germany let's have a look. at the first one in germany. meet germany's biggest royal fan. if it has a royal face on it evelyn's got it from cardboard cutouts to cushion someone coming with to a diana shrine. personalized stamps. evidence love of the royal family began while visiting relatives in england as a child and has blossomed ever since she and members of her lady di fan club travel to london several times a year and like any self respecting super fan she's had numerous really countess

along the way. spend some i know diana rather than the last few she gives the hand to me you and i go all the way to you from germany i was so strong. prince charles came josh admire our short charge i was sure and showed usually again only when mom to agree to go by it was lovely to see this people and prince william he looks at my flyers and then he looks at me and said i love you aren't. now there's only one special royal man left to meet dress in her wedding best she'll be in windsor to watch harry get hitched and she'll be battling it out with other fans to look guys with the happy couple to be such as a standing out she's enlisted the help of a few die hard members of the lady di club and they didn't disappoint. what he told

me about this. as a sign to get the couple's attention i hope they will she hid her like this over shoes for repairs. and of course the lovingly prepared congratulations card to mark forty alice a smattering of gold leaf and a handful of we'll all winter into this walk about hopefully not inventing the whole thing guns gun store we really hope harry will wear the red uniform will have a problem we'll have to fly to england and quickly redo it no more and. no buts with all this fuss about the british royal family i'm left with one big question. so you're such big fans of the british royal family do you really wish there was a rule family here in germany no no no why no no no no no no we actually have a german royal family but how should i put it exactly the best. i

could not imagine that i was stored with the flag with america. sorry germany britain wins this time hurling. all right some very dedicated german royal fans there to tell us why do you think britain's royal family does have such global appeal. well i mean i think first of all there are the historic links of the commonwealth respective people who came here from us trade from canada so there are these toys that really go back through history but then i think the royals have really managed to be keep themselves interesting the queen is a symbol to us really respected around the world she's somebody who we almost never put so foot wrong she's so dignified she still after all these years the head of

state and she's at my id really i think across the world for being so steady and a symbol of continued to you which is what people are looking for and then into the mix you had the younger royals i think with diana there was something that was almost injected into the royal family something new she was a superstar america stuff was a tragic death this is something that's remembered also on this day one has son gets married and now you've got the younger royals and i think with maggie you know almost a new chapter in their own family and people will really be interested to see what part she's going to play in the future. you know supporters are saying that they really do hope that this royal wedding will inject some new life into the british royal family do you think it's likely to do that. yes i i definitely think so i think make it a somebody who is on one and she's is not in a row right she's

a very successful actress actress and knowing particularly in america but also you have many fans across the world so she's not just any common now but on the other hand she is somebody that people can relate to she is not from the royal blood she is america she's mixed race. divorce a somebody who has a lot of fun usual features to marry into the royal family and i think this is really what what trails people and it says sort of contrasts you know you've got the you've got the royals with that tradition and stiff upper lip but then harry being one who's always like to try to break out of this now he is getting married so he's committing himself to something stable hopefully and he's chosen somebody who has a sparkle ready to do this royal family and i think this is what makes it all so exciting for people all right very good let's talk about the wedding itself we're

also hearing that this is going to be a very different kind of royal wedding compared to ones we've seen previously how will it be different. well i mean it's not exactly a rock'n'roll style wedding so it's all within the tradition father then within this fairly i would say confined corset you do have some some shifts they have a different kind of cake a very modern cake inlay as cake fresh and lights i think it's what they say it's going to be you have a gospel choir of course this is a reference to two magazines tradition you've got as music you have something from greensleeves a variation from the traditional american song so old this is something that's interesting also making marco will look a little bit herself down the aisle and then she will be received by prince john so you know telling you that she's an independent woman i think that's something

that's a lot of people have picked up on so these are sort of the slight variations within the tradition not too far of peace from what i can judge when i hear it all looks fairly traditional if i am under i and i see military bands and i see men in uniform so it does. look like a like of the robot but then again what's going on inside you know that's obviously something that we will anticipate and we will know if you have inside of your good and speaking of what's happening inside who are the guests are what kind what are the more high profile people who are going to be attending today. well of course you know there's on one hand the royal family. there we have seen people like james like james blunt the singer we have. the serena williams would be invited so that i have not seen whether she's actually attending or not but quite a few people from sort of showbiz and quite

a few celebrities will be there and of course people want to see is anybody going to be able to up stakes to bright i don't think so but we will see. and one last question for you the dress any speculation about what megan markel is going to be wearing is that are we going to see another twenty five foot train like diana had or probably not. my guess would be you know it's my guess would be that she's going for something different maybe something not quite so well volunteers i can't imagine but we don't know the speculation would be that she would wear a british designer but who knows maybe if somebody is an american one but that of course is one of the big questions that will be on some very very soon. following all of these developments for us from windsor many thanks will be watching right along with you. well turning now to some other news and to

cuba which has begun two days of mourning for the victims of friday's plane crash more than one hundred passengers and crew died in the disaster but authorities say three women were pulled alive from the wreckage the plane came down near have an. shortly after taking off it's cuba's worst aviation accident in three decades for. the plane had just taken off from havana as main airport when it crashed and burst into flames. there was little left to save when fire crews arrived to the blaze miraculously survivors were found no monks' the debris state media says three women are being treated for critical injuries. for the relatives of most on board the fate of their loved ones was clear.

she was twenty four years old she took a flight from havana to whole game and the plane crashed found out from a television just a little while ago. it's the first major incident to confront cuba's new president. who was quickly on scene . the sides from giving our condolences over the loss of life and giving all our solidarity to the families of the victims but we will make the appropriate investigations and give the information to our people. the flight was operated by state airline cuba but the plane had been leased from a mexican charter company it was almost forty years old something that played a role. this was one of the safest airlines in the world but you know these planes are obsolete understand. it's the first major crash for the cuban airline which is

notorious for delays and cancellations cubana says it's forced to operate an aging fleet of aircraft because of u.s. trade embargoes cuban investigators will be supported by mexican aviation experts as they search for answers amongst the wreckage. and now to some of the other stories making news around the world. in iraq the political coalition led by influential shiite cleric mcdonnell solder has won the most seats in national parliamentary elections as according to final results released by the country's electoral commission last week's vote was marked by record low turnout. german chancellor angela merkel and russian president vladimir putin have held talks in sochi after months of tension the two leaders found some common ground over upholding the iran nuclear deal and implementing the north stream two gas pipeline which is the project that will allow russia to export more of natural gas to

northern europe italy's anti establishment party five star has reached a coalition deal with the far right league the two parties are now haggling over who will be the next prime minister to do to present a nominee for approval by italy's president on monday. here in germany a nineteen year old man has been charged after an assault last month in berlin on a man wearing a jewish skullcap the suspect an asylum seeker from syria yelled jew in arabic and whipped at the victim with a belt. to the united states now where residents in the town of santa fe taxes are reeling after nine students and a teacher were killed in a high school shooting on friday ten others were wounded in the attack several are reported to be in critical condition a seventeen year old has been charged with the murders. of hot.

ma. prayers somebody will judgment as another high school shooting brings misery to a small us ten. and amid the shock there's also a sense of the inevitable. i was thinking it was going to happen eventually it happens it's been happening everywhere i was ready to run out but a teacher told me to hide instead so that's what i did. officials say the suspected assailant a seventeen year old student of the school was armed with two guns belonging to his father he walked into an art class and opened fire i didn't see anything i just heard the arms and everybody we know yelling right at first you know all we heard was run run and next thing you know we hear. that then everybody just started

running the shooting comes just three months after seventeen people were gunned down as a school in parkland florida widespread outrage in the wake of that incident prompted nationwide protests calling on lawmakers to bring in tougher gun controls today the flag at the white house is once again flying is half modest and president donald trump is once again expressing his condolences to his shattered community we grieve for the terrible loss of life and send our support and love to everyone affected by this absolutely horrific attack my administration is determined to do everything in our power to protect our students secure our schools and to keep weapons out of the hands of those who pose a threat to themselves and to others trump responded to the

parkland shooting by encouraging educators to carry weapons but campaigners and experts say tighter gun restrictions are the only way to prevent future massacres. in venezuela president nicolas maduro looks likely to win another term when voters go to the polls this sunday no several countries including the united states say they don't recognize the election as legitimate opposition candidates are battling not only the duros stranglehold on the country but also calls by the main opposition parties to boycott the vote. hunger has reached a new level in venezuela food shortages and hyper inflation of forcing people to take extreme measures like eating garbage on carlos used to study engineering in venezuela central university but for

a few years now he's been he had anything to eat. entire families and people like me are experiencing a hardship and can't find food. so unfortunately we have to look for it in the trash to survive they put up with. it but i don't want to hurt anyone so instead of stealing i prefer to look for food in the trash because. the economy is only one reason why these people have been protesting against me to row since he took office. something can you give me one of the five been fighting for twenty years against this regime the nicholas majority to leave what i am asking him is to quit there is so much misery and up useful country so many hospitals with no medicine and so many children who die every day i've been without medication for over three months now even. some opposition will make his

a calling on venezuelans to boycott sunday's elections i will be this sunday venezuela is not voting this process violates our rights and on sunday it is our turn to make it known that the people do not choose it is a process of social control and domination by the state the necessary conditions are absent indelible ink and control of the electoral center by impartial people the military and the electoral arbiter end up being part of the electoral fraud these things being absent is a sign that venezuelans are not allowed to make their own decisions and this is true of all farty. sure this system is one of the most transparent in the world even though the company that provided the technical platform for voting machines accused them of fraud last year. historically venezuela has had high voter turnouts but polls show this election will be different. than and

without a doubt we will have the lowest voter turnout in history in the last presidential election i think fifty five to sixty percent of voters went to the polls. i am the only candid it was never had any relationship with chavez him neither in a political sense nor in any other way. but even if one of the opposition candidates would become venezuela's new president some people think they'd be acting is the government's puppet you know what it to legitimize a process that the international community has strongly condemned. to soccer now and byron munich take on i'm tough frankfurt in the final of a german cup tonight run away but just like the champions byron are clear favorites and this match is expected to be the last of his career for coach you poncas frankfurt meanwhile have surprisingly reached the cup final for the second year in

a row under coach nico koch who will take over at byron this summer. as seen full of symbolism the current and future by a munich coach is in the fight for the german cup. nico kovacs is trying to play down the significance of this is maybe amusing and interesting to you but we have a job to do and that's why we're here. your parka says tackling the final task of his coaching career with his usual passion. robin and the dollar will miss his farewell game but he's staying relaxed. not forty five or fifty anymore looking ahead to further things in my career that's why i'm relaxed man will know i am meanwhile seems more tense for the first time since september he's back in the byron squad after breaking his foot but the germany goalkeeper can only hope for a brief appearance. to put an

end to the distraction he will not play from the beginning remove the speculation. but he's in the lineup and i don't have a plan for money well neuer i have a game plan which means i have a plan for how we're going to play. nico kovacs also needs a plan in the bundesliga frankfurt were clearly inferior to buy in after his move to munich became known his team delivered poor results a development that has shaken his belief in their chances of winning the cup. so no . we have to hope that by and don't have as good a day as they normally do and talk of the venlo i think we can accomplish something in the final. if the both teams are at their best it will be very difficult for us . thank you it seems the more relaxed in the obligatory photo of the boy and coach can hardly imagine anything other than a title to end his career

a little bit. and some tennis action now in the men's quarter final stage of the italian open german number one and defending champion alexander's vera faced ninth seed of belgium in friday's match while novak djokovic and rafael nadal were also battling for a semifinal spot. weld number three alexander sparrow faced a tough opponent and belgian go but managed to break his serve in the third set. spare of then held serve to notch up his twelfth consecutive victory on the a.t.p. tour. he'll play full seed marin shalit in the semifinal. earlier in the day seven time champion rafa nadal had faced italian fabio fognini who managed to take the first set in front of his home crowd.

but the clay king fought back to claim victory in three sets nadal would reclaim the world number one spot if he wins the title in a row. now. japan's came to see corry gave novak djokovic diskette taking the first set before the serbian levelled in the second but initially corry collapsed in the third with a blunder will hope to forget. djokovic kept his cool to reach the semifinal that sets up the fifty first a.t.p. tour meeting between joke of rich a dollar. and a quick reminder of our top story. guests are of a thriving at windsor castle for the royal wedding between prince harry and megan markel six hundred people are invited to the ceremony prince charles will walk the bride down the aisle. and don't forget you can always get the daily news on the go just download our out from google play or from the apple store

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