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A mother lost her son. she s frantic begging the police to let her through. it just didn t make sense. how could they be treated like this? brief flashes of relief. trains departing carrying them through macedonia and small faces pressed up against the glass and hands waving. but the respite short lived. the farther into europe they moved, the worse their treatment became. often traveling overnight on foot. train tax lead the flow of humanity from serbia into hungary. here the real nightmare for most begins. parched, they arrive. there is no water. just hours of waiting under the beating sun where buses finally arrive to take them to the transit camp where all say the conditions are inhumane and they are treated like animals. ....
Foot. train tracks lead the flow of humanity from serbia into hungary. here, the real nightmare for most begins. parched they arrive, but there is no water. just hours of waiting under the beating sun where buses finally arrive to take them to a transit camp where all say the conditions are inhumane and they are treated like animals. herded around like sheep and forced to scramble for food and water, and we are not allowed in. at the budapest train station after having waited for days if not over a week sleeping on cement, a moment of slight hope as a packed train departs, also short-lived. an hour into what should have been a journey to the hungary/austria border, it stops. whatever hope they had shattered. a little girl unconsolable. ....
Calling for an urgent meeting of the eu ministers to discuss the spiraling migrant crisis. the goal to establish welcome centers to house and feed and screen thousands of migrants fleeing afghanistan, syria and iraq. i want to bring in senior international correspondent arwa damon live in budapest. arwa, this is hitting hungary very, very hard. reporter: they are. they are also hitting hungary very hard because of hungary s own policy and how its government has ended up handling this current ongoing crisis. along the way, people have been saying people are going through so much. they spend days in the rain with no shelter. hours waiting under the beating sun and left to languish at the ....
Entering. huddling under any scrap of cloth trying to stay out of the beating sun while under guard. this is the holding area across the border from serbia. a lot of the people have come through and handed themselves to hungarian authorities. they have been waiting in these conditions for hours. some of them since 2:00 in the morning. there was one very brief water distribution that took place earlier. not enough to go around. most certainly not enough for those that have just come across. there are crying babies and people sick and not feeling well. the vast majority, every single person we spoke to here, miguel, doesn t want to stay in hungary. they want to move on. they are fine with being processed, but they want to go and continue their journey to western europe. many have been through incredibly difficult circumstances. all we have spoken to say their treatment in hungary is abysmal. ....
Trudges on. under the moonlight. on a journey to western europe. waiting in groups. some will try to smuggle through. most hand themselves over to the hungarian authorities to one of the few openings in the fence. this was not a demarcated boarder. now a razor wire snakes its way menacingly throughout. this is hungary s he attempt to control the record flow of refugees. making it harder to evade capture. something many dread. worried it will hinder their ae aasylum applications in europe and the dismall treatment by hungarians they have been warned about. something many have experienced firsthand. waiting for hours under the beating sun with little water, no shelter, and no translator that we saw to tell them what s going on. eventually, they are bussed here to the processing center. which takes a couple days. ....