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Brian Barron on Tiananmen Square uprising: June 1989

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China's head of state Deng Xiaoping appears in public at a ceremony honouring the People's Liberation Army.

It follows a brutal crackdown by soldiers around Tiananmen Square which left hundreds, possibly thousands, of civilians dead.

The BBC's Brian Barron reports from Beijing on 9 June 1989.

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