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Since the beginning of september, munich has taken in thousands seeking asylum. one day alone brought in 16,000 refugees. border controls and refugees, on the trains diverted to other cities has reduced the intake to a few hundred a day. perhaps not coincidentally, just in time for octoberfest. local officials had planed that munich was reaching its limit and openly worried over the auditing of largely refugees and encountering drugs and crowds. a few on saturday were worried. >> it was a little...

Going nowhere faster and faster and faster. it would be awesome if this absolutely riveting presidential contest were having in the united states was producing constructive new ideas being well debated in our own country by our best and brighters in terms of what we ought to do about syria, what to do about isis, what to do about assad. turns out thats not exactly the kind of campaign were having this year. but nbcs richard engel has been right in the thick of it today and all this past week in ...

The ring leader of the lie at who they say is arrested on suspicion of terrorism but refugees continue to come finding new routes, new borders and more welcoming countries to pass through. croatia put up buckets for and taking them to camps where they can continue the journey. many others continue to camp out by the hungarian border hoping for a change in policy and leniency which the hungarians seem unlikely to give. the hungarian foreign minister saying the refugees should, quote, wait out the...

Right in the thick of it today and all this past week in terms of the human consequence of that war not ending. and the people of that country having nowhere to go as they war gets more and more hopeless. last night on "nbc nightly news," richard reported on the human smugglers, the people taking money from these syrian refugees, these desperate syrian families, offering to somehow sneak them around various border controls that have sprung up over europe as syrians flee their home country and tr...

Hungary is obliging, putting people on buses and sending them on to austria, germany and beyond. some are having second thoughts, inundated with people. theyre tightening up border controls. and in hungary, who had been the tightest, workers finished closing up the highest gap, 13-foot-high double barbed wire fence. starting tuesday, policing will be harder. >> they cannot make it impossible for asylum seekers to ask for asylum. >> hungarian officials worked through the night to finish off this ...

10,000 people crossed it to hungary on monday alone. >> natural border, to stop illegals. that also means that the official and legal ways into hungary and through the european union remain open. thats all we ask from more migrants, that they should comply with international and european law and protocol and they could come legal crossing point. >> meantime, germany says it may take in 1 million migrants this year alone. the countrys interior ministry says 10,000 people are coming into the count...

Stopped. they dont want to stay in hungary. they want to transit through and make their way to germany. they are holding up pictures of angela merkel. they think germany is waiting like -- with open arms and that if hungary would just step out of the way, they could get there. but hungary has taken a position that is now, we are seeing in many different european countries where they are tightening border controls, they are re-imposing border restrictions and really ending the open border policy ...

>> heres atika shubert reporting in from munich. >> reporter: over the weekend munich saw a record number of refugees coming through this train station. 16,000. so noorly as many came in to germany in just one day. and this is why germany says they need to impose temporary border controls along the border with austria. what that means is they suspended a number of train lines. 000 operating again. however, police are going onboard trains checking for ids. those without any valid id may be turned...

Nine out of ten african americans say theyll go with clinton. turning now to europe, germany which has shouldered much of the burden suddenly imposed border controls and froze all train traffic from austria for 12 hours yesterday after 16,000 migrants arrived in munic this weekend alone. joining us from hungary, lester holt. lester. >> reporter: mika, its a picture that never ceases to touch you. trst a family, small children pushing a stroller. how many miles, how many kilometers have they push...

Risking their lives as you know in a perilous journey to reach europe from war-torn countries of syria and iraq and coming from afghanistan also. now germany europes largest economy sim pleamenting temporary border controls to cope with massive influx of families. world leaders are calling on the united states to step up with more assistance. conor powell has more from our middle east bureau. >> reporter: europe is increasingly divide and struggling to cope with the growing refugee crisis overwh...