the assassination
During his career with the BBC, Hanrahan had travelled almost the whole of the world, covering such news events as 
 of the Indian Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the massacre by Chinese troops in Tienanmen Square, Beijing, and the coming to power of Mikhail Gorbachev and the subsequent rise of the "Glasnost" era in Russia.
BBC Foreign correspondent Brian Hanrahan dies aged 61