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Most important railway line of the country. an emergency situation has occurred. that's why we have decided to send buses and then deliver them to the austrian border where they wanted to go. >> here's a closer look at just how far many of these migrants have traveled. after leaving their own country, turkey is usually the first stop, then across the sea and across that dangerous journey into greece. macedonia is next and eventually on through serbia, then hungary, which is, of course, a critical transit point, the doorway to europe's passport free travel zone. now that many migrants have reac...

Here's senior foreign affairs correspondent greg palka. >> reporter: it's an image that shocked the world. a 3-year-old toddler found dead on a beach in turkey. his father and mother also killed drowned trying to reach greece. newspapers told the family including the surviving father fleeing fighting from syria. >> is anybody with a sense of humanity that could not be moved by what i saw today? i see the body of a young boy watched up on a beach like drift wood. >> reporter: migrants from syria and other hot spots, asia and africa are on the move to europe. some 340,000 this year alone. hungar...

The attacks here in istanbul carried out by a radical left wing group according to officials, and the attacks in the south by kurdish gorillas. an siri of attack business different groups. the real question here is, why? why this spate of violence by these two very, very different groups that have no overlapping agendas? and it's -- partly to do with the u.s. war on isis, the u.s.-led war on isis. the u.s. has been pressuring turkey to do more to crack down on militants, to seal the border, to take more strict measures so that this country doesn't remain a transit point for isis fighters passi...

Of operation. >> colonel francona, how did you cut off the flow? >> as he said, it's not just a military situation. turkey is the main transit point and i think we have had a diplomatic success in finally coming to an agreement with the turks, not only going to have access to the turkish air bases but the turks have committed to shut off that flow. once that happens i think you'll see a decrease in the number of fighters as we kill -- just a process of attrition will lower those numbers, but it's going to take time. we have to give the turks credit and because the turks are going to incur the ...

There are pockets of radicalism here. with a lone wolf you only need one person online giving messages for the attacks to be inspired. jordan is low on the list of places you will be worried about. a very well known transit point for other parts in the middle east. great airport here he will use to the middle east. >> certainly mental illness and depression and fascination with guns. that is something we have seen many times in these lone wolf cases. thank you for that nick. happening this morning, united nations security council vote on lifting sanctions on iran. into the sanctions is the m...