he was 22. his family blame his death on what they call the torturous mistreatment he received. president trump said mr warmbier had faced tough conditions under a brutal regime. peter bowes reports. otto warmbier was travelling in north korea as a tourist when he was arrested in january of last year. he had attempted to steal a propaganda sign from the hotel as a souvenir. before his trial, at a news conference arranged by the north korean government, he tearfully confessed to trying to take the sign as a trophy for a us church. save this poor and innocent. a month later, the economics student from the university of virginia was paraded through the halls of north korea supreme court. he was found guilty and sentenced to 15 years of hard labour after a one hour trial. it was soon after the trial that otto wormbier fell into a coma. north korea said he had contracted botulism but on his return home, his american doctors said there was no evidence to support that diagnosis. the
What won t, ithink, however, lift, is the scrutiny on the organisers, because of all of the controversy that still surrounds the treatment of the migrant workers that have been depended on to build the infrastructure and the stadium and the discrimination that exists here in this country, with homosexuality illegal, leading of course to some fears over the safety and the welcome that some fans may experience. an 800 year old landmark in york, described by experts as one of the country s most important buildings, reopens to the public this weekend after a multi million pound refurbishment. clifford s tower was once the seat of royal power for northern england, as john maguire reports. first built by william the conqueror, there s been a castle on this site in york for almost 1,000 years. during that time, its story has been touched by tragedy,
Described by experts as one of the country s most important buildings is reopening to the public this weekend after a multi million pound refurbishment. clifford s tower was once the seat of royal power for northern england. john maguire has more. first built by william the conqueror, there s been a castle on this site in york for almost a thousand years. during that time, its story has been touched by tragedy, comedy and royalty. this was, for long periods of history, a place where the north was governed from, certainly where yorkshire was governed from and sometimes where england was governed from. it has a very, very long, very eventful, sometimes tragic history, and that s a history that deserves to be remembered and deserves to be told properly. and we hope that that s what we ve been able to at least start to do in our new work at clifford s tower. the stone tower built for henry iii in the 13th century is the largest