Witness History: BBC News update

Key points

• Available for over a year One month before the bloodshed in Beijing, a 10km line of protestors snaked through the city.
• For over a decade China had been opening up to global trade and there was promise that, with greater economic freedoms, democratic rights might be within reach too.
• In an emotional testimony, student organiser Wu'er Kaixi explains why he thought protest and demonstrations were encouraging leaders towards a more progressive China.
• On 4 May 1989, with huge numbers in the streets it was a moment when many dared to believe the fight for democracy could be won.
• But, as Wu'er Kaixi tells Tom Bonnett, it was a brief high point.