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Thousands this weekend. greeted warmly at train stations by volunteers and citizens. a growing number of iraqis fleeing their country. pope francis calling on those to open their doors to the refugees. the eu is deeply divided over how to handle this. cnn is covering the crisis. we start off with arwa damon at the hungary/serbian border. what are you seeing there, arwa? >> reporter: well, christine, take a look at this and the crowds that are here. this is meant to be a temporary holding area fo...

Correspondents at crisis points across the region. >> reporter: im arwa damon on the hungary/serbian border, most of the refugees from syria, fed up with the wait that has lasted four days out in the open with little to no shelter. in fact, so fed up, the young woman like zuna wrote on her arm, we arent animals. i want to go. why did you write this? >> because i need go. >> you need to go. >> very cold, and im so tired. >> reporter: how many times nights? >> two days. one night. a lot of people ...

Unfolding on the train, that shear desperation there, the fact that parents walking, carrying their little children, theyre walking because they want to give their children the life they had before the war zones. these people are on the move right now walking this highway making these decisions because they can not take it living on the streets, they can not deal with waiting with politicians, european leaders to make a decision and they can not go into the refugee camps. they are terrified of g...

Them back home. people are determined to make it all the way to austria and if they have to they will go to germany. they dont want to go into the hungarian camps. they are refusing every single call by the hungarian authorities to do so because many of them have been through the camp along the hungarian/serbian border, they say conditions were inhumane, that they were treated like animals. and having come so far, they have not going to put their churn or themselves through that again, ashleigh....

These people who have been camped out with their young children. arwa talk about the situation on the ground and how significant this is, this change in approach, when it comes to the authorities there in hungary and why were seeing this now. >> reporter: well, rosemary, this is very gasignificant becae people couldnt take it any more. people didnt know how to spend another night there. they dont know how to keep living in this limbo. they didnt want to report into the hungarian camps. they were...

Two war-torn countries are continuously getting worse and families are making the impossible choice of bringing their children on this very difficult and dangerous journey where they end up living in complete squalor. so many of them tell us if they stay back in their home lands, they are going to end up dead anyway. they have to somehow secure a future, any future, for their children. they do believe that that future lies in europe. this has been such an unspeakably difficult journey. many have...