Thousands trekking to Vienna from Hungarian border

The 40-year-old was sacked by the right-wing N1TV online channel after video of her taken by other journalists went viral. He said he hopes to reunite with relatives in the Netherlands.

While eastern Europe’s new European Union member states are being asked to absorb the fewest, they are putting up the fiercest resistance to plans to spread the refugees more evenly across the 28-nation bloc. Most have collective, reception center-style lodgings.

Hungary estimates that more than 160,000 have crossed its borders alone this year. Garbage-strewn fields turned to mud, trapping relief agency trucks whose wheels spun and flecked passing migrants with sodden earth. “We can’t get rid of them”, said Gabor Gyurko, a volunteer for the Catholic charity Caritas, which is providing medical care at a police-supervised collection point.

Gyurko said he expected the volume of ill people to surge with the chilly, wet weather “especially among people living in such close quarters”.

A constant steam of migrants arriving despite rain Thursday in border town Röske, Hungary from Serbia.

The issue remains immensely hard to handle-all the more so as no end is in sight to the Libyan and Syrian conflicts, to name only two.

In the motion, MEPs called for revision of the EU’s Dublin Treaty on refugees, under which asylum claims must be processed by the first country asylum seekers arrive in. We need to think what would we do, if we faced marauding gangs bent on enslaving, sexually abusing and killing all those who face them. “We don’t even have electricity, which means we don’t have warm water during the whole day”.

Austrian police official Hans Peter Doskozil says 7,500 people crossed into Austria at Nickelsdorf on Thursday.

Most have gone on to Germany, where 450,000 migrants have entered.

That shutdown came on top of the company’s suspension Thursday of all train service toward Vienna from the Hungarian capital, Budapest, where thousands have overwhelmed the train station.

Senate Judiciary Chairman Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, attended the meeting with Kerry and said he was concerned that the administration is “opening the floodgates and using emergency authority to go above what they proposed to Congress in today’s consultation”. Slovakia has offered to accept 200 people – as long as a lot of them are Christians.

Meanwhile, a Hungarian camerawoman who caused global outrage after being caught on film tripping and kicking refugees, including children, as they fled police said she had “panicked”.

“My husband is waiting for me in Vienna. Either soldiers or a fence or a combination of the two”, he said.

“We have been walking for four hours. We all want so badly for this journey to be done”.

Syrian people arrive on a dinghy after crossing from Turkey to…

According to the worldwide Organization for Migration, more than 378,000 people have entered Europe this year, including over 256,000 crossing the sea to Greece and almost 120,000 braving the Mediterranean to reach Italy.

Sweden expects to receive 80,000 refugees this year and has more asylum seekers per capita than any other European nation thanks to a generous immigration policy allowing automatic permanent residency for Syrians.

European states must uphold national and worldwide law in managing its borders, including for the right for people to seek asylum from war and persecution, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said in a statement.

Second, sorting asylum seekers from economic migrants remains a necessity.

Now, amid vast divergences, citizens’ initiatives, and scenes of asylum seekers marching along highways and rail tracks, European Union interior ministers are tasked with finding concrete solutions when they meet for an emergency summit on September 14.

Mr Spindler said “trucks are on the way” after the Geneva-based agency won government approval to send 300 prefabricated homes to provide temporary housing to refugees awaiting registration by authorities. People stuck for days in dire conditions rush to board one they believe is heading for Germany.

But Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka said his government’s opposition has not softened.