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>> here's 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 around at the border and not allowed to come in. the same is being done for cars and trucks on the...

Record number of migrants. 8600 people crossed the border from greece over the weekend. ivan watson is there. >> reporter: this is the border between grooeeece and macedonia informal crossing point through which refugees and my grants have been streaming through by the thousands. more than 8600 people in a single 24-hour period. hi. >> good morning. >> where are you from? >> syria. >> syria. >> syria. >> where are you going? >> finland. >> finland if. >> yeah. >> okay. >> so you hear these people identifying themselves as syrian refugees saying that they're either going to finland or germany. ...

And what is life like for ordinary syrian civilians? >> the world is focusing on this because these refugees are showing up in europe. you just gave 400,000 as the people who have kraffed the mediterranean to europe every year. that's a lot of people, but it's less than one-tenth of one percent. it's a number of europeans can handle. lebanon today, between 20 and 25% of the population is composed of syrian refugees. so the countries of the region have been accepting a much larger burden. but you wouldn't know that from europe where all this belly-aching is taking place. >> and we saw richard r...

Those migrants. we're joint now on the phone by nbc's richard engel who's on the serbian side of the hungary/serbian border right now. give us a sense of what you are experiencing and most importantly what the migrants there are up against as they try to move toward europe. >> reporter: this came somewhat unexpectedly. we thought that hungary would close its border in about six hours from now. but just a short while ago, perhaps one hour ago, hungarian police stood in rows. they moved up to the border. they fanned out. and they physically blocked the main crossing. it is the now-famous image t...

Ha hungarian/serbian border. they're waiting to get on buses bound for austria. that's where richard engel is standing by for us. richard? >> reporter: alex, things here are still quite tense along the serbian/hungarian border. police forces are corralling people so they can be loaded on to buses. a lot of these people do not want to get on these buses. they don't want to be fingerprinted, they don't want to be kept in these lines and they don't want to be separated from their families, because that is also happening as people get on one bus, sometimes children are taken from their parents. th...