BBC Six O'Clock News - Twin Towers attack - 11 September 2001
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Huw Edwards reads the BBC One news on the day of the attacks on the World Trade centre in New York and the Pentagon.
Reports from David Loyn, Robert Watson, Fergus Walsh and James Robbins
[Uploaded in 2022 as an historical record of events that day and before Edwards left the BBC and court action was taken]
Can you imagine if smart phones were around back then? All the footage of people inside the towers, all over social media?
I mean at least we would know what happened to the twin towers
Plus why the hell do people joke about this
@@TurbogorillaA lot of people hate America after all the illegal wars in the Middle East that this was used for justification. The entire region has been destabilised and millions were displaced because of it…
all the gossip women were active that day
You’re right. The videos from inside the Grenfell Tower fire in London were hideous.
@digitalhen I was awake the night that came on the news. My kid at the time was little and didn't sleep great so I was awake. I remember just standing in the middle of the room watjing the TV, having finally rocked the kiddo back to sleep in my arms. It was very surreal to watch live knowing people are losing their life. It made me squeeze my little.one a little harder and longer than usual.
“A plane crashed in Pittsburg” is the only coverage that the 4th plane got that day. The heroics of the passengers on the 4th plane were completely unnoticed at the time!
Well they hadn’t recovered the cockpit voice recorder at that point
They didn't know that at the time.
This was just a few minutes after the attacks
This was right after, they didn’t know the passengers revolted yet
This was 6pm (1pm ET) by 10pm news (5pm ET) it had been established that passengers had taken down the plane. Which was met with much skepticism from what I recall
In the following days that came out and they were viewed as heros.
Pretty sure the first 9/11 movie made was about united 93
I was working in a bar in the UK and it was live on the news, some guy walked in and asked what movie we were watching. That’s how messed up it was. Took a couple of days for it to sink in. 😢
That's exactly how I heard about it. I arrived at my local pub in Brighton at exactly 2pm. When I returned to the bar at 2.30, the barmen had the TV on and I saw the towers on fire. They told me 2 passenger planes had flown into the towers. I'm not sure that I didn't think they were watching a film at first but it soon became clear they weren't.
I walked into my local pub in Minehead to meet my family and the small TV above the bar was showing replays of the first tower being hit, which no-one was watching so I assumed it was a film/TV show and asked the barman what was it, to which he replied it's the news. Then he turned up the volume and everyone started realising what was happening just as the second plane hit.
It still shocks me that this is real when I watch the same news now that I back than.
I walked into my class after break & thought they were watching die hard with a vengeance-i swear
I cam3 homw from college I put tv on I tmseen smoke coming from top of towers I thought it was film then I look at bottom of tv it was bbc news special
My dad literally asked that when he walked into a pub while it was happening, he also predicted the towers were gonna collapse because he watched a documentary a couple years before about how the construction firm that made the steel beams were actually not up to standard and had many weak points. but this was overlooked, a decision that would kill thousands.
I was 8 when 9/11 happened and I can honestly say it was my first understanding that the world is not a safe place. Even being so young and in England I was able to grasp the uniqueness and the sheer extent of the attacks because of the reaction of all the adults around me. I’ll never forget coming in from school and seeing the news with my parents, with them trying to explain what has happened.
Same
What are ye wanting a coconut? Big deal. Stfu.
Nonsense. I was 8 at that time. I thought it was a bit like an earthquake on the news, something else would be on the news tomorrow.
i was 11 and exact same thing happened to me , walked in from school and mum and dad watching the news.
It was the first time as a kid I was interested in the news. I watched Sky News relentlessly for the next week or so.
From this Londoner to New Yorkers, im thinking of you all this week. I watched this live at home as it unfolded. Will never forget it.
The USA funded Irish terrorists for decades.
it was 2-3 a.m. in Auckland City when towers fell- The Judgement Hour.
@seanodwsoyer4322 so most of you guys didnt find out about it until the morning.
new york has nothing to do with london
@@HypervoxelRBX And your point is?
I am watching this 23 years on and it is still so horrible to watch
23 years on and this is even harder to believe because I’m a 2nd attempt 9/11 survivor after Woody attacked my plane on Monday 6th May 2024 and my heroic actions made headlines in Wales and Ponta Cana and I told my story hours after the incident. My sister, Come and See (1985), United 93 (2006) and Mummy are also survivors of the attack; our trauma from the morning of Monday 6th May 2024 is still in our memories and I successfully landed the plane safely after Come and See (1985) knocked Woody unconscious so I can fly. Wales was in deep shock when they find out me their beloved Queen was in the 2nd 9/11 incident and they cried finding out their Queen survived
I was 7 when it happened. I can still remember it.
Probably because it's two enormous buildings inside a major, Metroplitan city falling after being hit by two passenger planes. Though I wonder if the same compassion your expressing is felt for all the people in other countries continually being bombed every day ...
I was five. Got sent home from school early (UK). Saw it on TV at home and thought it was a film.
especially when you see whose reading it....
Will never ever forget my dad picking me up from school and listening to the radio on the way home not understanding what it was. I came home and i literally watched TV the whole night without moving. I can still remember everything about that day
we were glued to the TV for days
I remember leaving school at around 3pm (UK time) and it was showing the towers burning, by the time I got home 90 mins later they had collapsed. Everyone was completely in shock
Same for me, I was walking home from school and a kid who lived on my street told me there has been a plane crash in America.
Same here, just got home from year 11 school, getting something ready to eat. Didn't hear anything on way home. Turned on tv and shocked. The world has not been the same since. There was life before 9-11 and life after. It was a seminal moment in history, ours lives.
just got home from year 11 school, getting something ready to eat. Didn't hear anything on way home. Turned on tv and shocked. The world has not been the same since. There was life before 9-11 and life after. It was a seminal moment in history, ours lives.
Same. I was in year 9. Biked home, (Nobody had a phone back then, so no idea what was happening) and I still remember my mum poking her head out the door as I out my bike away and said "2 towers in America have been flown in to". No idea what she meant until I went into the living room. Weird what sticks in your mind on these historical days/events
I used to do a paper round and can remember being sent home and waiting for a phone call to go back because all of the newspapers had to be reprinted. I sat in my bedroom in shock watching it on tv. I can remember it so vividly.
I remember it like it was yesterday. I'd just got home from one of my first days in Year 4 and my mum was standing there watching the news telling me a plane hit one of the towers. We thought it was an accident to start with and my older brother came in shortly after with his mate. Then we all watched the second plane hit live and that moment will be burnt into my memory forever. The stunned silence in the room as we realised it wasn't an accident was haunting.
I had a similar experience
Bet you can’t remember it was 20 years ago! Move on!
@@alexrussell2903 are you diagnosing me with dimentia?
@@alexrussell2903 Oh Alex, you need to get outside my friend. Maybe then you'll feel less angry about YT comments
You must have got home from school early then to have seen the second plane hit live.
"America is pounded"
~ Huw Edwards, 2001
22 years later and the quality of this broadcast is unparalleled. Only 4 hours after the disaster started.
Pity that Huw turned out to be such a wrong 'un, but yes, the quality of BBC news was absolutely unparalleled back then.
In one of those strange little echoes of history, Huw Edwards would go on to announce the Queen‘s death 21 years later.
I was only 8 but this was such a big deal I can't help but recall watching it with my parents at about 4am in the morning and being told to be quiet lol. I just remember how serious they looked while they watched it.
@@desmondmolloy9173 makes me wonder if he was doing the news for Diana's death (1997) or The Fall of the Berlin Wall (1989).
@@rich_edwards79 I may be wrong here but wasn't Edwards cleared of those claims by The Sun and that newspaper was forced to backtrack on its allegations?
What an absolute tragedy this was, can't imagine the feelings of the passengers, workers trapped in the bulildings and rescue workers knowing full well they were never coming back down that building, absolutely heart breaking. I was 11 at the time and my heart goes out to all the victims and our American brothers and sisters as a whole every year since, God bless you all.
It wasn't a tragedy, it was an atrocity.
And countries such as the UK has loads of them turning up on dinghy's unaccounted for and planning more criminal activity. Scum the lot of them
What Passengers?
those flights were undersold & NO ONE EVER mentions the FACT that 8 of these terrorists were alive & well the next day ! one was a Turkish pilot whos pic/passport was stolen he was scared to death in a hotel room waiting on a new passport - he rag sly news begging them to retract their statement - they blocked him from calling - 7 of the 8 either were murdered or vanished ,Al Hamzi is still alive but lives like a nomad in the mountains as not only were the press interested but the CIA wanted him silenced
A bit too young to remember the American funded IRA blowing up our highstreets, eh?
I was 10, got home from school here in England and people were stood in their gardens head in hands, my parents in tears. RIP to those innocents who lost their lives and sorry to their families.
I was the same at 9 years old. Got home from school and my mam was in tears. My dad glued to the tv he usually had bbc on for us when we got back for cbbc ... one of the strangest things looking back on that day is I can not remember anything about the day I had at school but I could walk through minute by minute of everything that happened the rest of that night. Its as if it happened yesterday them memories
I had phone a relative I thought I was imagining it all
@@johnjohnsilver Same here, my memory that day starts with me walking into my garden, seeing people stood outside looking horrified and my neighbour who was my age leaning over the hedge saying “someone has blown up the Empire State Building”, which was obviously false and he was a bit thick to be honest.
After that I remember endless TV all night
Same, I heard my teachers talking about it in our PE lesson which was our last lesson before school finished.
Went home and just remember watching it on the news with my parents
@@tomben6180interesting nonetheless, genuine reaction & confusion in the moment of what would be a huge shift in history of many countries.
Amazed at how many Brits are sharing their experiences of that day, so vividly. As a Yank, it has been an insight to see how this affected you all as you guys were in the middle of your day, when for us our nightmare began early which by the time we went to sleep we hoped in vain what we witnessed, physically or on the tv, was a horrible dream that would end and we’d wake up to the real world. To be honest, that seems to be a habit starting that day of hoping one horrible day is just a bad dream for the last 22 years.
America is basically our Country aswell, obviously it's not but it was our Country at one point in time and most you are descendants of ours so we are Cousins and share a common language and Culture.
I was 16 got kicked out of school the day before and was trying to preparing for a job interview at that time... hit hard on every one, remember it Al to this day
Im British and was on holiday in crete at the time.
Was on a german/Dutch complex
Went to the bar to get a beer
Maybe 10 people in the bar including the barman glued to the TV thought they was watching a film of the twin towers
Then started to realise it was real
Had maybe a week left of the two week holiday
Strange holiday after that nothing was normal
Walked into different bars and restaurants for the next days and its all that was on peoples minds.
I remember walking out on the tarmac to board our plane back to England all passengers deadly silent boarding
We all sat down got sorted and took off. Maybe 40 mins into the flight a Asian man (bless him totally innocent) stood up and reached into the baggage bin
You could hear a pin drop in the plane
He must have noticed the zero noise and looked up to every passenger onboard staring at him,
He gingerly removed a walkman and headphones and sat quietly down with everyones Eyes burning into him. Think everyone Side a breath of relief. The fight carried on quite. I’ve never been on a flight like it!
That day changed the world and its never been the same since
I would really hope all GOOD HUMANS on earth would NEVER let something like this happen again.
We can do so so so good on this earth but on the flip side really really evil.
I hope people that was involved that day can find peace one day
Love from 🇬🇧
What happens when you stamp big feet at people the retaliate, and still never learnt trying to bully russia now how's that going for ya ?
@@xtroncool007considering they had warning to fuck off and was told it was going to happen, sometimes people need to listen had they removed troops lives would have been saved not ended, the human race is the worse group of mammils/animals which is more fitting than any other to walk the earth, we cause more carnage than dinosaurs did amongst them selves
Such a well structured, edited and reported news segment for something so massive that had only occurred 4 hours ago
Yep. Just like when Jane Langley reported the 3rd tower (WTC7) being hit and collapsing, 20 minutes early.
It’s almost as if a massive, well established news organisation has the resources of experienced professionals on standby 24/7
I was 9, in primary school and I remember my mum picking me up at 3:15pm UK time, and saying about it, and the news being on the telly at home. Rest peaceful to those killed and died in service 🙏
Same ! 9 as well our teachers put it on them big old tvs they had on trolleys and then realised people were jumping from the towers and soon turned it off we was like wtf then got back home glued to the news like just madness still remember that day clear as.
Crazy as this also happened with me. I was 10 at the time and we were in lessons in primary school, the head teacher came in to break the news. We had an assembly where it was on the big CRT TV they had. Can't quite grasp what to say about it even now...
Why you Posting here about it it's past people die everyday that is life.
I was 17. Had a day off work. I'll never forget the news on every channel. I thought a replay was being shown until an eyewitness said "oh my god, another plane just hit". Absolutely numbing.
I worked at Gatwick Airport when this happened.
First we knew was when all flights were grounded.
Truly shocking and heartbreaking
For those of us who were old enough to understand many things in the world, we all know where we were, what we were doing when this happened. I still remember and I'm 34 years old now.
My Dad said the same about when JFK was killed. I remember 9/11 and the tube bombings of 7/7 so clearly.
33, come home from school had the latest episode of the robot wars robot building magazine, dad told me to sit watch tv and build it because this is an event that would change the world as we know it.
I’m the same age, got home from school banged on saved by the bell on Nickelodeon, my mam got in about half an hour after me turned the channel to the news and the rest as they say is history
I was 9, so 31 now, and I didn't understand any of it, but I knew what when I walked in from school, and saw the north tower collapse on the TV, that something big had happened. I'm not someone who typically remembers what they had for dinner last night, but I can recall so much vivid detail - even down to the colour underwear I wore that day. I also remember my mum telling me to shut up, because she was watching the news and on the phone to my grandma. I also remember walking in from school a little disappointed because when my grandad picked me up from school that day, he'd forgotten to bring me my after school sweets. Course, once I saw what was happening on the TV, I kinda thought to myself, it could be worse. I ended up grabbing a kitkat and drinking mum's cup of tea.
I was in year 7 on the school bus home when a girl I think she was year 9 said “there had been a plane crash”. Didn’t think too much of it but it was on every channel when I got home. I was too immature even at that age to really understand the severity of what had happened, so much so I even asked two days later “why do they keep going on about it”. He had to sit me down and explain it to me.
Rest in peace 2977 or more people who died during the 9/11 attacks
Goddamn Huw, news peado seems to announcing everything important.
6:07 “a plane crashed in pittsburgh” if only they knew… RIP to the heroes on that flight
Truly truly horrifying. The loss of life and the scar it left on those left behind.The worst part for me was the poor souls jumping out of windows. Those poor poor people and the lives that were lost. The things they went through and the choices they faced that we'll never know because of the collapse. The innocence that was lost that day.
Yep. It was plane wrong.
@@slopernafti902 that one almost flew over my head
@@alxonpc9388 Thankfully the joke didn't crash and burn!
Talking of windows... Is there any photographic evidence of windows on either of those planes?
Yeah poor souls… the people who made life a living hell for hundreds of millions of Muslims across the world and still do.
AND there’s no such thing as the “Arab quarter” 😂 it’s the Muslim quarter… but who cares? Same thing. They’re all brown and we are smarter. They should also listen to us and their zionist lords in London, Washington and Jerusalem
This Englishman will never forget. God bless America. Love from across the pond. I served with American soldiers in Afghanistan, Iraq, Kuwait and Kosovo. I'll always stand with America 🇬🇧 ❤️ 🇺🇸
Thank you for your support.
Just a Shame the biggest terrorists are running the US and the UK.
@@lisathuban8969 Although those 3,000 people died on US soil and were mainly American citizens, this was an attack on the west and every western nation fell silent on that day in utter disbelief at what we were seeing on our TV screens. I'm Scottish and I remember on that day every single one of our 5 networks cancelled all programming and just showed news related to the attack. I had never seen TV do anything like that before and I haven't since, it was an event that captured the world. And not in a good way, sadly.
The bastards used 9-11 to mislead us and pull us into Iraq, Hussein hated Al Qeada but we service members didn't know that, I was in the US Marines at the time (and Army later) and had buddies die in Iraq, I'm still mad at how they spun the American people about Iraq, and we still don't know why. Part of their grand strategy to get Iran or mid east hegemony I guess.
The bastards used 9-11 to mislead us and pull us into Iraq, Hussein hated Al Qeada but we service members didn't know that, I was in the US Marines at the time (and Army later) and had buddies die in Iraq, I'm still mad at how they spun the American people about Iraq, and we still don't know why. Part of their grand strategy to get Iran or mid east hegemony I guess.
So sad a pdf phile gad to report this
It still haunts me when I was 12 and I still remember it and even as an adult at 34 and everyone talking about it at school in Australia over 22 years ago and how horrible it was
ok
If you were one year older, you would have known the news reader a lot better
Same age as you. It had quite a significant effect in a province of Canada connected to New York.
@@MannoulaZ yo mama asked him to post that
@@Jrt91 aye aye whatchu say nigga
Take a moment to remember everyone who lost their precious life or a loved one, hold your own life and those close to you extra tight today and be grateful for every moment you have
I was 18 years old and on my lunch break from art college in Swindon, UK. Me and many others were crowded round a TV shop called Currys in the middle of the street, just all in total disbelief. I remember it like it was yesterday - undoubtedly this is the most memorable global event in my lifetime. Being quite young and rather impressionable I can admit that I was, for a time, taken in by wild conspiracies, which for me were and are a direct product of (sometimes necessary) government secrecy. As an older man I have come to accept the official version of events, but I will never forgive those in power who used this tragedy as a justification for their own acts of terror.
Whatever your personal views of the BBC, you cannot deny that this coverage, pulled together in only a few hours, was fitting for the nature of the events. They knew it would be one of the most significant moments in modern history and it shows. RIP to those that lost their lives in USA that day, and the countless others that have since perished in conflicts that were a direct result of this provocation.
I was same age as u. But at my mates college to pick him up. Gosh I'm old now lol😅
Hello fellow Swindonian. Didn't expect to see anyone here...
aahh, Currys, remember it well. Used to go in there and play Ghostbusters on the demo commodore 64 until the staff shooed us all off...
Cut forward to this fateful day, working for the MOD aerospace in a satellite office at Filton, the coverage was piped in live on the internet (relatively new and slow then), will never forget that day....... 😞
Bro I ain't reading all that no one cares about your little popsy art course, get over yourself.
I was 17. And I remember this horrible feeling in the pit of my stomach that the world would never be the same again.
I wasn't even a year old when this happened. But when I first learned of this in secondary, I sobbed. To see such destruction was gut-wrenching. I cant begin to imagine how hurt the city, and the country felt at the time. And even today.
My mother is a Brit who visited New York only a year before the attack. There’s a photo of her standing at the top. It’s so insane that something as huge as 2 buildings could be destroyed in a day
I’ll never forget being 11 years old and coming from school, to see the live feed of the towers on every channel. I saw them collapse in real time. I had no idea what was going on, but the understanding of the horror of the day has been seared on my brain.
It wasn’t just live on American tv. I’m in the UK and took the day off to chill with wife, and casually switched on tv as it was showing a live report of the first tower being hit. From thousands of miles away we watched the whole thing unfurl. I wasn’t there, but boy has it seared into my mind.
I’m a Brit and will never forget being in my first few days of Year 9 at school and hearing about the first plane and not really understanding what was going on, then getting home 20 minutes later to see my Dad stood right in from of the TV watching Sky News Live in silence. I couldn’t believe what happened next. :( Something that will be forever embedded in my brain and I’ll never forget it. Much love to this day for anybody effected by what happened that day x
Huw: America has been pounded… wth
Always remembered. My son is 15 & as well as me telling him, he is being taught about this in history class.
I was a very young in the head 16 year old back then. I remember getting home from school in Scotland just in time to see the towers collapsing 💔 at that time, I didn’t understand what the word terrorism even meant.
Later that evening myself, brother, mum, cousin & uncle sat in my Grans house watching this news segment & once it was finished, I had so many questions. My uncle answered them as honest as he could. My mother said “she doesn’t need to hear this!” My uncle said “well actually she does, it’s her reality now and she will need to teach her own kids, she can know the reality of the world and still live a normal life, stop hiding everything!” He was so correct & I will always appreciate him teaching me anything I wanted to know. Never forget 🩵🇺🇸🏴
Crazy to think how much time has passed. I was 15 and in school when it happened. We ended up being evacuated since my school was in the downtown of a major American city and nobody knew what else may be coming. Now it's being taught in history class to 15 year olds, just feels surreal.
Good advice from your uncle, gotta face the world as it is.
I was only 8 and my grandmother more or less made me watch the footage that day. Now I know why.
I was in my mid twenties at the time and was at work in the UK. A colleague, got a text message from a friend and the look on their face when they read it out, is still imprinted on my mind. " A plane's flown into the WTC " I have to admit, I didn’t know what the WTC was, but knew that something seismic had happened. When I got home, I put the TV on and watched the news. It was only then that I saw the true horror unfold. I stayed up most of the night and watched the rolling footage; in a state of shock and disbelief. I knew from that point on, things would never be the same again. RIP to all the souls who lost their lives that day and since as a consequence.
I was 18 and joked about it thinking they've been pissing the world off. Got home that evening to see the extent and the amount of lives lost. Never felt such a twat.
Except for airport protocals, most everything has returned to normal.
I was 16 at the time. I live in Canada, and I was just settling into my first afternoon class in school when the principal broke the news over the public address system. Nobody could really focus on what our assignments were supposed to be, as this tragic news took all conversation over.
Being in the middle of Canada, I recall seeing all local hotels and motels in Thunder Bay being full of stranded travelers whose flights got diverted here as a result of American air space being closed. I was one of many people who were shaking as a result of what happened, and that's putting it lightly.
i was 16 too, living in new jersey, 15 miles away. i know all about Operation Yellow Ribbon so thank you guys for living up to your canadian kindness :)
Did they make a movie about planes landing in a small airport in Canada on 911 in a place called gooseneck people in the town gave shelter to people stuck
@@MarkPollard-yx8qg pretty sure there was but i haven't watched it. i think its based in Gander, NL, which took the most planes after Vancouver and Halifax.
@@MarkPollard-yx8qg It was called Gander, which is in Newfoundland. I do recall seeing a TV movie about it once.
While that's interesting in itself, what's even more interesting is that a stage musical about the day's events was eventually produced, "Come From Away". I think it's been on Broadway among other places.
Do they teach how terrorism started in Canada? I learned it from my teacher, even though it's against policy in the US. They risked their job telling us, but they also felt it was important.
In 1941, the US, UK and the UN took land from Muslims in the area now known as Israel, unilaterally. That means without agreement or consent of Arabs living in the area now known as Israel. The Muslims home and lands were taken (stolen). The new government also dictated where the Muslims could and when the Muslims could not go. Any resistance and the Arab could be beaten or imprisoned. Since 1941, war and skirmishes broke out and all kinds of police brutality ensued, especially since the Arabs were going to resist. The land was taken without consent.
They have no means of winning. Suicide attack common. Americans think Arabs are crazy, when in fact they are very angry. In the US, they actually confused the words "mad" with "crazy".
It's easy to imagine, if you knew how you would feel if your land and house were taken and there was nothing you could do about, except suicide bombings.
You can fight terrorism through education.
UK is also largely to blame. They used to control the areas that is now Israel with soldiers. The last remaining days of colonialism and the managed to turn it into terrorism.
Remember the day well. Bright late summer day here in the UK almost 22 years ago to the day, I walked home from school, my final year at school i was 15.. and my mum is home with the tv on and the shock of seeing the world trade centre on fire. Later that evening i went to watch my local team play football, there was a minutes silence for what had happened before the match.. even though we were 3 thousand miles away across the Atlantic.. Its one of those things that always stays with you
I had a day off work. I went for an eight hour long walk in the countryside. In the days before smart phones I thus had no news updates, and didn't see many other people being out and about in the middle of nowhere. When I got on a train home at 5pm I heard someone on a phone saying 'America won't be happy.' I thought has something happened? But they said no more and the train was late leaving so it went off my mind. I happened to get home at the same time as my sister, and when she said have you heard about the planes hitting the world trade centre I said what planes? I went in and sat there with the radio on. But I couldn't take any of it in. Even nowadays, to think the world watched it happen but I didn't still feels very strange.
Got back from school. Whipped my uniform off as per usual tvs on..boom..its all over but I don't remember any buildings dropping at that point .that was a bit later
I was 18 and right out of high school when this happened. I’m over here in Pennsylvania, USA, only about a 3 hour drive from manhattan. I had fallen asleep the night before with the TV on and was barely awake and able to process the news of a “fire” in the WTC. Just as I turned my head and looked at the tv, the second plane hit. I still have memories of watching this unfold live on tv. I’ve visited the 9/11 memorial a few times now, and the Flight 93 Memorial. May we never forget, and always remember to just take care of each other. I’m happy to see so much support from our friends across the pond in the UK.
There are so so many comments here of people who were very young when this happened , who have had this dreadful situation heavily imprinted on their memories at tender ages, myself included. The People in those windows still give me chills
I remember coming home early from secondary school, watching the coverage and seeing the second plane fly into the second tower, it was unbelievably horrific! Now thinking of the countless people who died right there in front of us, absolutely awful beyond words.
Then finding out pregnant woman jumping to their death instead of burning or suffocating to death and these brave emergency personnel trying to save others, my heart goes out to them all 💛
I will never forgive these selfish people who decide to kill.
Truly the most horrifying thing I've ever witnessed. Such a sad day. RIP all the victims - you will NEVER be forgotten ❤
You haven't seen much
@@EveryTongueShallTellsounds like you grew up in N@zi Germany
It's hard to believe that this happened almost 22 years ago. I remember it as if it was yesterday.
I met a friend of mine for lunch and as we were going back to our respective offices, he got a news alert on his mobile (which was unusual back in 2001) that a plane had hit the WTC.
When i arrived back at the office, we went to my boss' office (as he had a television) and saw the 2nd plane crash.
We will never forget those who perished, those who lost someone that day and those who survived ♥.
Fucking crazy where does the time go
I watched the second plane hit live in the school during the last period of the day when the teacher decided that the events were worthy of interrupting the class and turning on the TV.
I made it home in time to see both towers collapse live on CNN. It was a bizarre day, even for us in the middle of Europe.
One of the moments you knew exactly where you were and what you were doing when you heard this news.
I’m from the UK & watched it live as it happened. I’d put the TV on at home to watch something else. The first tower was burning & I saw the 2nd plane hit.
I saw footage that wasn’t ever shown on TV again, although now you can see it on UA-cam. There were people hanging out a window waving what was probably a white tablecloth. People jumping with the camera following them down. People lying injured in the streets, walking wounded escaping covered in ash.
It was such a shocking event that I couldn’t comprehend it. I knew it was terrible but my brain just couldn’t take in everything that was happening.
Due to time zone differences - British Summer Time (GMT +1) is five hours ahead of EST - some people were unaware of the disaster as it happened due to not having access to the media (for example by being at work or school and not having a radio or TV where they were), and came home in the afternoon to find out what had happened. I was only five at the time, but I remember coming home from primary school to find BBC news on television, showing footage of the disaster. Being so young, I didn't quite understand what was going on, and I don't think I saw much of it before going upstairs to play, but I knew that something was very wrong.
Same thing happened with me, a week away from my 5th birthday, but the school called us into the hall and wheeled in the TV and made us watch the second plane hit the towers. Got home for around 3:30 only to see the towers collapsed. It's a bit weird to be so young yet have such vivid memories of the day
I've been to where the towers were in NY and it was a sombre experience. Whilst I looked at both empty sites I just couldn't help but imagine the events of that day, the towers falling, the terror, the lives lost. You can almost feel a sort of atmosphere whilst looking at it
I find it horrendous that anyone could celebrate the deaths of thousands of innocent Americans
@@robbiel8677 I still don't think they should bomb innocent civilians, no matter what.
@@eddyland1557wouldn't expect anything less from Bush junior
There are no innocent Americans, according to certain Islamic teachers. No one valued by Allah died that day except the hijackers.
They weren't celebrating the attacks, the footage was a year old
It's because USA did the exact same thing to their countries. They saw it was revenge/karma/justice. It's just like when Amercians celebrate when USA wins wars, despite killing many innocent people.
If only we knew about this guy back then. Some may have known like Jill Dando.
How ironic that you uploaded this on 11th September
The same man that reported the Queens death.
I didn't realise the BBC News intro music was still exactly the same as it was back then
I'd taken the day off work and turned up at a friends and asked what film his brother was watching on TV. Utterly surreal at the time, still feels like it was yesterday.
I’m from Russia and I haven’t seen this actions happening,even on TV, but 22 years later,I’m watching this videos about this terrible attack and I just can’t get those feelings of those Americans,who saw it happening at that day..I think this horrible attack should unite people all over the world in the struggle against terrorism,despite of political consequences..
I hope that you are safe in your home country from the terroristic actions of your president
@@Senriam I don’t suffer from that,anyway I hope everything will end soon,because that’s not the best way to solve anybody’s problems
@@Senriamyou mean bush?
@@Wise__guyimagine thinking bush is worse than Putin bwhahahahahahahahah
@Mr_Epicurus Actually you are not right. They do see a lot on Russian TV. Well, mainly disinformation, but it is a lot! 😆
I remember being in Year 11 in an English lesson at a Boarding School in Somerset UK that afternoon on the day when it happened but I didn't learn anything about it until I came back from Horse Riding for tea/dinner that early evening when I watched the 6 O'Clock News on BBC1 and finally learnt about what really happened. It was just absolutely devastating and I was one of the lucky ones including me and my family who were lucky enough to visit the World Trade Centre in New York 2 years early before the 9/11 attacks until 2 years later, it was destroyed by those Bastards afterwards.
Damn same age as me, then I was in year 11 in the West Midlands when this happened. Never forget it. Came home from school, turn on tv, and this was it.
What career have you got now
@@jamesjameson4566 I work at the Ticket barriers at Putney Railway Station in South West London.
I heard about this all day on the news(radio) and built a sketchy picture in my mind, I got home at 5.30 and was completely blown away by the enormity and destruction. RIP all victims. Not only the deceased, but the people that survived and have lived with what they witnessed 😔❤
I think a big reason why this shook the UK too was because allot of people here thought America was invincible at the time. It's one thing for Americans to fight and loose people in random wars in foreign countries. But the idea of an attack of this scale hitting something as powerful as America was unimaginable. We'd seen bombings and terror attacks before but nothing came close to this in terms of the devastation. If it happened to the US then we are all vulnerable.
It’s hard to believe the newsreader on this is the same newsreader that 21 years later, would go on to announce the death of HM Queen Elizabeth II
Huw Edwards - what a guy
Why is that hard to believe?
@@JimmyJames10-k7v just is when he’s been there that long, he joined the BBC in 1984
Except that was less sad, a privileged 96 year old tax dodger and thief passing away is nothing compared to innocent hard working people attacked.
@@Superfreaky2 average american
"Huw Edwards." That's probably the worst tragedy in this.
good old Huw. don't see him anymore. wonder what he's up to now.
Oh yeh I haven't seen him in a while
Hahahahaha
I was working at a garage at the time. Walked into a car showroom and all the salesmen were looking up at the TV. Completely innocently I asked "what film you watching"
"This isn't a film, this is real.... was that a second one? Oh sh..."
Remember it so clearly. What a way to find out. Oh how the world has changed since then. Rip to all those lost. 🙏
5:24 The person hanging off of the building here is haunting. My goodness!
I've seen many videos of the towers with him.The last up close I know of that him shown (but pretty grainy) is a little less than 10 minutes before the collapse.
What's haunting is how many windows, where people were clumped all together near him, are empty at that point. God knows how many people, including those who worked with and saw everyday, he saw as they jumped.
The cluster of 3 below him were still there as well.
I hope the end was quick. That they didn't have enough time to grasp that they waited for nothing.
I remember my teacher running out the class and wheeling in the only school TV into the classroom and trying to get a signal but she couldnt get one. Then the rumours of something happening in America. When I got home, I remember seeing it. Initially I thought it was 1 tower being hit twice
I was 9 and playing at home in the garden sandpit with my neighbour who was round for a play date. My mum shouted at us to come through and watch it on terrestrial. We saw the second plane hit on live footage. Our teachers had us journaling about it in primary year group 5. I still have those journal entries where I wrote ‘osama bin laden’ as a 9 year old boy. It’s still strange when I speak with 24 year olds who have no memory of that day.
I was home early from college after only being in that morning. Put the TV on and watched it all live. I remember the camera fixed on the first tower, with the reporter speculating on what had happened. Then, live on TV, watching the second plane hit the other tower. I'll never ever forget that. It was a sunny day here in the UK too, just like in New York. I remember watching just dumbfounded, and then a wave of disassociation as I watched the second tower fall and then the first tower fall. It was like being in a surreal dream, and I still find it hard to believe.
It’s amazing how accurate the suspicions were just from the beginning
This has got to be the most cowardly way to attack a country. Using innocent people as weppons
that's the Muslims for ya
I've been watching a lot of clips of 9/11 coverage and this one from the BBC is the first one I have seen that includes film of Colin Powell speaking that day in Lima, Peru.
Powell has a lot to answer for... a lot!
Back in the day when the bbc called a terrorist attack a terrorist attack….
To scared to offend that religion nowadays
I was 16 and at work, no smartphones so radio was all we had. I hadn't heard of the WTC let alone seen them. Got home and watched the news non stop. One of the very few days in my 39 years I can actually visualise. Insane.
It actually infuriates and disgusts me how people are commenting about Huw Edwards on a video about the most deadliest terrorist attacks in History. Like have a bit of decency and respect for the people mourning the victims and the victims themselves. This isnt the video to be talking about Huw's controversies.
So you support pedos. Got it
Scrolling pretty far down the comments, you're literally the only one that has mentioned him...
@@JoeyRhubarb try sorting by newest first :)
@@JoeyRhubarb I went newest first and there it was. I guess you support pedos too you freak
I remember the shock I felt as if it were yesterday, I hugged my 1 year old baby for a long time that day.
People around the world will always remember where they were and what they were doing when this happend.
Not seen Huw Edwards for a while 😂
I lived 2 blocks from the WTC and walked between them every work day on my way to the office on the other side at Church St. I wasn’t living there when this happened, but I had nightmares for a few weeks. My old apartment was destroyed. I lost some former colleagues. I went back for the first time 6 years ago and it was chilling.
This is one of the moments the time difference is so intriguing here. The nightly news here (which usually... even in 2001... was supposed to be a complete wrap-up of the days news) was still in the middle of the day in the U.S. It's an intriguing look because... remembering how the day was here in the U.S., we didn't have complete reports like this for hours and hours later. Its just interesting to see really complete reports only a few hours after it happened.
The other interesting thing here is the world view/Middle Eastern celebration video shown here. In the U.S., that was obviously discussed at the specific time, but we weren't seeing videos like that so quickly. So intriguing seeing it here from the BBC.
In short, very interesting. In all my years since it happened, i just never thought to look at the BBC coverage. Glad i did.
The celebration footage around the 12:20 mark is definitely intriguing in light of recent events.
I was 27 years old and unemployed back then: I woke up at 13:45, sat on my sofa with a Coffee and a smoke with the TV switched on at 14:00, and was surprised to see that there was a news programme when it should have finished, then I began to pay attention to what the presenter was saying and realised that a serious accident had occurred, then I saw the second Twin Tower being struck live on TV, it was then everything changed. I was glued to my TV for over 12 hours, it was the most spectacular event in world history since WW2.
13 years from now there will be another 28 year old unemployed.
The scenes of the children singing and dancing in the Middle East in celebration of the attack is absolutely terrifying
What about all the children dead from US drone strikes?
The footage is from before 9-11
But it's something to think about. It's never good or honorable to praise the deaths of innocent civilians. Like some people are doing now after Israel has killed over 25,000 innocent Palestinian civilians (3,000 died on 9-11), or when Hamas killed 1,000 innocent Israeli civilians (500 were soldiers), or before that in Operation Cast Lead when Israel killed 1,000 innocent Palestinian civilians also (and also strangely 500 were soldiers). Or when Russia has intentionally killed tons of innocent Ukrainian civilians, or US drone strikes killing innocent people, and on and on and on. Never celebrate the killing of innocent people.
The footage is from before 9-11
But it's something to think about. It's never good or honorable to praise the deaths of innocent civilians. Like some people are doing now after Israel has killed over 25,000 innocent Palestinian civilians (3,000 died on 9-11), or when Hamas killed 1,000 innocent Israeli civilians (500 were soldiers), or before that in Operation Cast Lead when Israel killed 1,000 innocent Palestinian civilians also (and also strangely 500 were soldiers). Or when Russia has intentionally killed tons of innocent Ukrainian civilians, or US drone strikes killing innocent people, and on and on and on. Never celebrate the killing of innocent people.
Still incredibly shocking footage 23 years later. The world changed beyond anything we knew before that day. Also Huw outed as a pedo....who could of predicted it
The BBC, so civilized, so calm...
My thoughts with the families who lost their loved ones today 22 years ago 🙏
Creep Edwards
“Many sexy kids are feared dead” Huw Edwards
Sexy Kids were the ruin of many a 'nonce' at the BBC. ua-cam.com/video/E_gp8rRX-C4/v-deo.htmlsi=jq-iAp017K5IV-1P
I remember that day so well. Remember exactly where I was and what I was doing when heard about the attack
I was 17 when this happened,remember feeling so hopeless and devastated seeing it all unfold live on TV,I'm now 40 and still can't comprehend 23 years later,the world will never forget,R.I.P to every single person who lost their life that devastating day and who have since 💔 😢
I remember being at home because I'd sprained my ankle, watched the whole thing in disbelief
I was 11. Even after 23 years still it hurts.
Today the newsreader was given the sentence of possession of child porn. Crazy world...
I was waiting in a que that day to get tested for genital warts and when i heard this in the background on the tv on the wall it took my mind briefly on my own situation, was definitely eye opening.
Can you imagine the restraint required to not channel all of your anger from such a monstrous attack, directly through the largest military the world has ever seen. There must have been a moment where that went through the presidents mind, regardless of proof of guilt, there would have been an overwhelming instinct to pulverise another state.
This is still painful to watch 23 years later. It makes me cry.
Everyone remembers where they were on this day. I was 16 and had just started an apprenticeship and remember hearing about it on the radio then I got home and parents had head in hands. What an awful day and changed the world forever.
Now Huw Edwards is doing the pounding...
11:19 did I hear this guy right? I just looked it up, and aside from a guy on Reddit talking about being nearby and remembering it happening, there is zero record of it anywhere.
It didn’t happen. A lot of the media outlets were reporting the car bomb, but later clarified that was wrong information.
I was 15 when this awful day happened. I had told my mum i was too ill to go to school so she took me shopping for some fresh air. We went into a bank and the bank had a TV screen. I saw only one twin tower standing and was confused. At first i thought it was a film but worked out it was a news broadcast. I said mum there's been a boming in New York not knowing that it was a plane. When we got home hours later we saw the full horror of what happened.
The most haunting thing is seeing all those people waving for help and seeing the help never made it to them. At the time i thought why dont the news crews in the helicopters try to rescue them but obvoiusly that wouldn't have worked.
Truly one of the worst days in world history. RIP to all thise who died.
As an American combat veteran of the wars that this horrible spawned and the fact one of my best friends lost his mother on the plane that hit the pentagon. Just the fact this day impacted so many other’s in the UK and the rest of the world brings me a sense of reassurance and comfort. Knowing that so many others around the world felt our grief, shock, and anger brings solace to my own mind and my life experiences that have been influenced in so many ways by that day.
And the passport of one of the hijackers somehow survived the crash, fell to the ground and was found by a passer-by. What are the odds of that?
Logically speaking it’s not that crazy, tons of debris get ejected during plane crashes.
Was working in a call centre in Glasgow, a lady i was talking to was telling me about this. I went to my supervisor and he looked at the Internet, just as the second plane hit. Everyone was told to finish the call they were on and log off. Everyone was sent home for 2 days as people didnt want to talk on phone. Sat watching tv all night with tears streaming down my face. Still bring a tear all these years later. 😢😢