Refugee Train News Today

In the first weeks of Russia’s war on Ukraine, refugees who fled to neighboring countries were offered free travel across Europe. A year on, the only remaining free transport is a train from Poland to Germany, paid for by the German state. Henry Ridgwell reports.

Midnight yesterday. i am outside the west railway station here in budapest. every couple of hours, a new refugee train comes from the border with ukraine, and people pile of them, and when they do that, they come out through the sentence here, you can see here various charities, volunteers and different charities, they have come here. over in the background, this tent is a hub for people looking for accommodation, thatis people looking for accommodation, that is where they are directed to. ordin...

Of corridors, humanitarian corridors, the numbers that we are seeing is somewhere between six and 12 at the counterpoint to this and what we are hearing from ukraine is that these are highly questionable and they are the russians, they say, funnelling refugees towards belarus and towards russia itself. that funnelling refugees towards belarus and towards russia itself.— and towards russia itself. that is the statement _ and towards russia itself. that is the statement from _ and towards russia...

Syrian civil war in which over 250,000 people have died, until you have a strategy that addresses that, the refugee train continues. its 1 plus 1 is two, right? its a cause and effect. >> steve do governors have any course? >> i dont know that they have any recourse. i think charles is probably right on the law. i think the governors are in a sense in a spot so they can make their case publicly and push back but i dont know that they have much recourse. if they da, certainly a court battle would...