Can any of the Dopers outside of North America tell us what you’re seeing on your local media, or what’s taking place in the streets?
My worst fears include images of joyous anti-American demonstrations worldwide, with dancing in the streets and flag burnings a’plenty – especially in the Arab countries, China and France.
Channel 9 in Australia has been showing ABC (US) coverage, interspersed with local coverage (our PM is currently in the US, for example).
Believe me, there’s no joy down here, only sympathy.
Most of the South Korean channels are running American coverage of the story with Korean voiceover. There seems to be quite a bit of shock. One newscaster broke down and started crying while reading details of the event.
I can’t believe how this happened.
First, I want to stress that the few local Chinese that know this news are horrified. The last thing in anyone’s mind is that this is in any way shape or form good news. The several Chinese I’m around right now all think that this will be a major war.
At least right now, here in Shanghai, the news is not widespread. It happened about 9:00 pm our time. Now, at 12:30 am, I just spun through the channels and none of the domestic chinese channels has anything but regular programming. Mandarin language programming on Phoenix out of Hong Kong is showing all sorts of live coverage with translators. Chinese websites have reported this. I watched this unfold live for the first hour on CNN at an expat bar. Expats and local Chinese all were horrified.
Once again, there are ZERO celebrations or joyous reactions here in Shanghai. The streets are normal for this time of night.
Expect full coverage on the morning TV news and newspapers.
Heard that the Malaysian stock market will be closed. I would expect that most if not all of the Asian stock markets will be closed at least for tomorrow.
Sorry, didn’t even see that. Unambiguously, this is a BAD BAD BAD thing to the Chinese.
UK. BBC News 24 is running continuous updates, we have TVs going in the office where I work.
Reaction - stunned, mostly. A certain amount of nervous black humour from some of my co-workers, but, basically, stunned. Also scared. Nobody wants to see the images we’ve seen on the screens today.
In the UK various places have been evacuated, including the Stock Exchange centre. Tony Blair has given a speech and is now in an emergency cabinet meeting. We have continuous coverage on the BBC and ITV and everyone’s pretty much shocked. It’s like watching some horrific film and I, for one, have not got my head round it yet. Thoughts are now turning to responsibility and the aftermath of these awful events. Blair has pledged full support of actions against terrorists. I’m trying not to descend into hyperbole, but it feels like the world just changed. My thoughts go out to American friends.
Four of the Five main terrestrial television channels are showing rolling news of the outrages. Last time I checked, only BBC2 was broadcasting children’s programmes, which had been shunted over from BBC1.
Other related topics are that the Conservative Party has cancelled their leadership ballot and trading on the London Stock exchange has been suspended. Tony Blair has rushed back from the TUC conference in Brighton, back to London to gather the cabinet and discuss British Security measures in the light of events.
I’m not sure what use this will be but my email address is:
and if anyone needs it for whatever reason, there it is. I will make any call to anywhere for anyone, checking the email address regularly for this purpose.
There is full coverage on this via BBC1 and it’s difficult to take in what we are seeing. It goes without saying that you are going to get the full support of this country at all times.
I dread to think what is going to happen next, but for now I send my heartfelt condolences to anyone who has lost relatives or friends in these attacks.
These words seem inadequate for what has happened, but I guess I am not alone in saying this.
I have received e-mails from several relatives and e-friends in Russia. They are absolutely stunned and very angry that this has happened.
Just chatted with a Turkish friend who works near Frankfurt. He is also pretty shocked but apparently they are having a hard time, like the rest of us, getting the facts. I will check with some of my Arabic friends and colleagues tomorrow, they are not reachable now. I expect them to be just as shocked as the rest of the world.
We woke up this morning to the news that yesterday’s election was every bit as close as predicted, and went off to our daily business wondering which party was going to kiss whose butt to make a viable government out of the resulting mess.
Mid-afternoon came this.
Celebration? Far from it. People are shocked, horrified, sad, angry at whoever is responsible. It’s the top news story, election be damned.
Toronto checking in…
I don’t have cable, so I don’t know what the TV is like, but it’s constant on the radio (Edge 102). Apparently they’ve evacuated within 1km of the US consulate in Toronto, which is most of the finincial, entertainment, government, and tourist district, plus City Hall. The airport is shut down. There was a report that the main highway to the US border was shut down. A lot of people are going home from work… everyone is stunned and shocked and…
I’m going to give blood. If I can get there. As I write this, they’re recommending going to give blood.
{{{HUGS}}} to all Americans. 
Every major TV station changed their schedule, reporting about the attacks all the time.
German stockmarket in Frankfurt didnt close its doors, but it suffered a major loss of about 10 %.
Security measures around american and israeli embassys as well as german state buildings are increased.
In Berlin, the newly (yesterday) opened Jewish Museum is closed.
All flights to the US are cancelled, in-flight planes are either redirected to Canada or are ordered to return.
Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said this is a attack on the whole civilised world, he was expressing his solidarity with the american people and guaranteed his full support.
Chock.
The Gvt. has increased security across the board, with focus on US and Israeli embassies. The chancellor talks of “declaration of war against the civilized world”.
Man-on-the-street interviews: Chock, almost disbelief. A few grim “Someone bit off more than they can chew”-type of comments.
Ehm - what Reverend said.
Damn straight. We’re at war. Let’s see how they like war with us.
Shocked. Stunned. Almost wordless. People are just stunned by the news. I just came from the city college, and coverage (CNN, I believe) is on TV’s all over the campus, where students are gathering. I haven’t seen a lot of the reactions, since the news started to break just before my first class, but even outside the buildings, the news was spreading from person to person. Many people were on their way inside to watch the news at the Students Association, or anywhere where a TV was.
I expect to see more reaction when I go back this afternoon. Canadian coverage is including reports from international airports all over Canada, who have grounded all their flights, and are accepting international flights bound for the US. Ontario is asking for blood donations and I believe have cleared their hospitals of elective surgery in case they need to handle overflow.
At least one local rock station (I only checked one) stopped all music for the morning, and was simply devoting the morning to the events, and taking feedback from callers.
elmwood, I thought you would like to hear this.
The American embassy in Oslo is obviously under increased security. People are not being allowed to come near the building unless they have specific business there. Across the street from the front of the embassy there is a wrought iron fence - it’s part of the fence around the Queen’s Park outside the Palace, I believe.
People are hanging flowers on that fence.
I think it’s harsh to claim the French would be rejoicing over this. Newsflash: the French are normal people, not raving lunatics. Any rational human being would be devastated over this (as, indeed, I am).
In Moscow, I was just finishing work when a colleague got a call with the news. It was difficulty getting any info over the net, had to wait until I could get home and turn on the BBC.
All the major Russian channels are having wall-to-wall coverage, mostly CNN or BBC with voice-over commentary.
Putin has come on and expressed his condolences, saying that this was an attack on “civilised humanity” and that countries have to come together to fight this.
General feeling is shock and horror, not jubilation by any stretch. Russia feels they’re a lot closer to Western civilisation than to whatever evil cretins did this. Remember, it was only two years ago that random apartment buildings were being blown up in Moscow.
Streets here are like on any other night, but then I’m not in the centre of town.