BBC World - FULL TV coverage - September 11, 2001 - Part 3

[AK47ASSASSIN2]

C'mon people. I understand that it took them long to realise what had happened. But seriously? It aint every day that 2 jets crash into two of the tallest buildings in the world within within 15 minutes (i think) of eachother. I would be shocked and confused being on live air commenting on this mad situation. I wouldn't want to believe it.

The bastards that done this are fucking sick cunts. I hope their bodies are rotting in hell. And those dumb fuckers thougt they were gonna get 70 virgins...

[XxleapingxlizardsxX]

Six people dead, 1,000 people injured? God, if only.

[japgolden]

@XxleapingxlizardsxX

That was from the attack in 1993 mate that 6 people died and over 1,000 injured

[XxleapingxlizardsxX]

@japgolden I was actually talking about 8:50 though...

[japgolden]

@XxleapingxlizardsxX

Yeah i caught that after watching the video again i think they just got there information mixed up during all the chaos

[XxleapingxlizardsxX]

@japgolden Probably.

[pbolarinho]

really sad day, I remember that day so well.

[cbphillyguy]

Thank you for posting these vids. Watching the British news coverage would have been more reassuring and calming to American viewers than the more conclusionist American media.

[HumpsBlowdoll]

@cbphillyguy Well, here in the UK the BBC is now associated with having a huge Left-wing, pro-European Union political bias, but whenever there is a serious news story to cover, I think most British people instinctively tune into BBC news

[LongLiveOx]

10:10 - "It's possible they may have had some indication that there was going to be an attack." That's kind of an odd thing to say. Why would he say that?

[tammyscotland]

@LongLiveOx It's not totally unusual for terrorists to send messages warning that there will be an attack soon. They don't usually give details with these warning but they happen. A recent example would be the warning from Irish terrorists on the 16th May this year that they are targeting London. It's a tactic used to make people afraid which is the point of terrorism.

[Christianjr4]

@ 8:53. These reporters clearly need to think about what they are reporting before they report it. It's obvious that the BBC confused the 1993 WTC bombing with the current 9/11 events happening then, but still, it's just absolutely ridiculous to think that only 6 people died and 1000 were wounded. The BBC was also painfully slow in reporting this as an obvious terrorist attack. They instead seemed to prefer the absurd notion that this may be an accident, even after the 2nd plane hit.

[christiandior1947]

Six people!!!! Really, BBC?!!! With two planes, those big-assed holes, all that smoke and all of that fire, there are just SIX people dead? I'm needing them to get it together!!! WTF?!!!

[NobleSquad]

@christiandior1947 If you listened, you'd know they were talking about the 1993 WTC Bombings in which 6 people died.

[christiandior1947]

@NobleSquad Go to 8:35, they report ON THE SCREEN IN THE BANNER, "REPORTS OF 6 PEOPLE DEAD AND 1000 INJURED AFTER TWO PLANE CRASHES IN NEW YORK" !!! You're totally right, that's the death toll from the 93 attacks, but that's not what they're broadcasting! The female broadcaster then went on and repeated the banner info on air as a "report" at 9:03 that six were dead and 1000 injured. They weren't at that time talking at all about the 93 attacks but what was currently happening.

[NobleSquad]

@christiandior1947 Oh yes. My mistake... well, their mistake

[Christianjr4]

@christiandior1947

They evidently confused the 1993 attacks with the present attack on that day. Sloppy journalism and reporting on their part, needless to say.

[vZoroark]

@christiandior1947 so its ok if six people die is it? just imagen if you where one of the six. or if it was your family. how would you feel if someone then said,, its only six people. i'd be preety annoyed. and just to let you know 1000 people got injured in that 1993 event so think about it

[christiandior1947]

@vZoroark You COMPLETELY missed my point.

[vZoroark]

@christiandior1947 Ok im sorry i did.  I realy am sorry.

[rossm8038]

4.30 LOL " i thought the building was getting demolished" then i turned round and it was a plane hitting it. ROFL...y the fuk wud u hink the demolition crews wer knockin down the wtc in just a random manner.

[trinimark123abc]

BBC are a bunch of dumb fucks! 6 dead WTF?!!

[rossm8038]

@trinimark123abc they wer talkin about the 1993 bombing at the WTC wer 6 ppl died.

[DanielCampbell4]

'Reports of 6 people dead and thousands injured'....where do they get this sh*t from? planes just went into the side of the buildings..

[multipleman78]

@DanielCampbell4 unfortunately she had the numbers from bomb in 93 that someone had mentioned earlier and just reported that as the reports.

[DanielCampbell4]

@multipleman78 they had the wrong results? old ones? from 93?

[bluedog454]

@DanielCampbell4 i think they were talking about the 1993 bombings of the World Trade Center, that was when 6 people died and many injured.

[rossm8038]

@DanielCampbell4 talkin about the 1993 WTC bombing which happened underneath the building in which 6 ppl wer killed and 1000 thousand wer injured.

[DanielCampbell4]

The BBC make Britain look dumb as sh*t

[lewis12121]

You make whatever country you come from look as dumb as shit!!!  Hopefully not everyone there is as thick as you.

[lewis12121]

@DanielCampbell4

[CheezeFox]

I can understand the BBC's neutral position. The job of the news networks is to report on what's happening, not to state speculations as though they're fact. They do mention the possibility of a terrorist attack, but only as one possibility amongst others (such as a freak series of navigational errors). It's a very Sherlock Holmes way of thinking, really- assumptions make for biased judgment which could lead one down the wrong path entirely.

[kLemon]

It's a shame they didn't have one of their better news readers anchoring at the time. Her voice & repetition of everything she was saying got annoying real quick

[thebeast0011]

LOL reports of 6 people dead - minor underestimate there

[BestVidsRightHere]

@thebeast0011

yeah, only about 2,979 off. brits....

[faithoffaith]

it could be a navigational error? shes crazy...

[osallent]

I cannot believe the BBC was so slow in realizing what was happening. 10 minutes after the second plane hit, they were still calling it an accident and a navigation error.

I saw it live on TV as it happened on 9/11/2001 and I knew instantly when I saw the second plane that this was a terrorist attack.

Common sense, 1 plane= maybe an accident. 2 planes = a terrorist attack, and 3 planes (pentagon) = even more conformation of what I already knew.

[johnfox3]

@osallent In the UK, the BBC is under strict regulation to be neutral...

[osallent]

@johnfox3 I know, but there comes a point when neutrality becomes absurd. I didn't expect them to express outrage or make their personal views known, just to report the facts as they see them....ie. 3 airplanes hijacked and crashed into buildings...it's more than reasonable to state that this might be a terrorist attack. I honestly believe that if a BBC reporter ever saw someone killing another person in front of him, he would say..."He may or may not have killed the other person...I cannot say.

[johnfox3]

@osallent yea I know it does seem obvious but its just conduct, until somthing is confirmed they dont make assumptions, where do you draw the line?

[mattmorelli]

@osallent At the time, that would have been speculation and the BBC tends not to do that. They only report on the facts. At the time of broadcast, no terrorist organisation nor government had confirmed it was terrorism, so the BBC continued to report what they knew as fact, that there have been plane crashes.

[SexyLiLLeilaniMya]

@osallent You and me both its was obvious what was going on what a tragic thing to have happened that morning!

[Elrich89]

@osallent The BBC never jumps to conclusions or speculates.

[flashk0]

@osallent This was an inside job man, second plane was a millitary plane, there was no third plane nothing hits pentagon it was just a bomb and wtc 1 2 and 7 fell down by control demolition of explosions placed inside the buildings

[havvacuppa]

@osallent You "knew" instantly? I think you mean, you deduced - at that point noone had claimed responsibility, and noone "knew" anything. As events unfolded, your guess was proved right, but at the time it was nothing more than that - a guess. Luckily, news agencies report known facts, rather than relying on "common sense" to try to guess what's happening.

But I guess that's why the BBC is a worldwide-respected news agency, and you're just a bloke making ill-informed comments on youtube.

[ChaosDynamics]

@osallent

British news channels (bar Skynews) are less sensationalist than American news channels. It may have seemed obvious to some that it was a terrorist attack, but the BBC needed to 100% confirm this fact before they said it over the air, as is usually the BBC's code of practice.

[artydean2]

@osallent they have to say accident untill evidence or a viable souce comes across...its national media law

[xHalfpipepaul]

including all thats in the buildings.

[xHalfpipepaul]

lol she says that early reports say that six people were killed. I mean im not bad mouthing her its just ide use my common sense, that theres more then that on 2 planes.

[osallent]

@xHalfpipepaul I agree with you, BBC's early coverage of 9/11 was atrocious. They missed the 2nd plane hitting the 2nd tower, they kept calling it an accident after the second plane hit, and the "6 people are dead" comment was the icing on the cake.

Good God, talk about having no common sense.

[xHalfpipepaul]

Yes it is, i remember being picked up at school when i was little and every TV was on the news. I didn't really understand and realize the magnitude of what was happening.

[sklzlm]

Interesting to watch this from a different nation's view.