arwa, i'm going to swing it back to you for a moment. saw pictures earlier today on the program at this hour when you were speaking live and i saw people helping these refugees. so it seems to me at least there were locals who were very sympathetic and trying to help these hordes and hordes of desperate people. >> there are and it was quite heartening to see because we've been here for about the last ten days or so and one has to say that this government is very hostile towards the plight of these people. the security forces are fairly aggressive and abrupt with them. people are coming out and giving them dates, one woman was in tears handing out food to the children saying "i'm sorry, i'm so sorry for my prime minister." people wanting to show that they do not support the government's treatment of what is happening and you see that question right there i cannot tell you how many times we have been asked why. there are no big humanitarian aid organizations here. in fact, the hungarian government was approached by unh who offered to help

let's go first to arwa damon live at the serbia/hungary border.ou have seen so much suffering the last few days. >> reporter: we really have. people keep on coming, arriving exhausted. this is the point where they cross from serbia following the train tracks into hungary. you see some of them waiting around here. they are hoping that somehow they will figure out a way to cross without going into the hungarian camps. that is not a likely scenario for them. some families stopping to take a break in the shade. it is quite a trek. this part is three hours and they have another 20 minutes before they get to a holding area where they will pick up buss bus s buses there to take them to the camps. conditions are not exactly ideal. you see the wall there. hungary is in the process of building the wall. that wire they have strung along the border. this is hungary's effort to contain the flow coming across the borders. critics say this not a solution. rather than this will create potentially an even bigger problem. many arriving here are refugees from the wa

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our arwa damon is there.ime with so many of these people listening to their stories. arwa, tell us what you are seeing and hearing and how important a moment this is for the people we're watching. >> reporter: actually, errol i'm not at the train station just yet. this certainly is going to be such a relief at this stage for these people. the vast majority of them having spent weeks and days there. and we're not sure if they were ever going to be allowed to leave. many yesterday when we were leaving were in a complete and total panic as to what they should do or where they should go. many were going to try to attempt to smuggle across to austria and germany. but they were nervous about doing that. all have heard about those who have perished on the back of the cooler truck found on the highway. and heard about others who were caught in austria and sent back to hungary. these are people who have spent days or weeks on the streets of the train station. they thought they would be forced to go into the various ca

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cnn's arwa damon was in the middle of it. look at this. >> reporter: we're running now with these migrants and refugees who just broke out of the holding area right along the border with serbia. the police are literally right behind them. cnn. the police are literally right behind them and in front trying to bring them under control. there are hundreds of them that staged this breakout because they were fed up at the conditions they were being held in. they couldn't take it anymore. young, old men, parents with families, all breaking through and now also being pursued by the police force through this con fiel cornfield. this all kicks off about a half an hour ago and there are people who have been carrying their children. there are some elderly ahong these crowds. these are people who at this stage are literally running for their lives. they took a risk when they broke out of the camp. they knew that. they were terrified of what the police would do, and now they are not only afraid of being caught but of what their potential

let's get the latest from correspondent arwa damon.he saudi officials have worked for years at crowd control just to prevent this kind of tragedy. what went wrong here? >> reporter: that's what they're trying to figure out at this stage. some sort of surge caused this stampede to take place at one of the intersections of two of the narrower roads inside the city of mena. that is not too far away from the stoning of the devil takes place. this particular ritual is one of the last rituals of the pilgrimage of the hajj where pilgrims throw rocks or stones at the pillar symbolizing the rejection of the devil and evil. according to eyewitnesses who managed to survive, two crowds came at each other and met at an intersection and pushing and shoving. that resulted in this horrific incident that left upward of 700 people dead. saudi officials trying to figure out if one of the leaders of the groups of pilgrims took a wrong turn or if pilgrims were trying to take a short cut on their own or the saudi security apparatus was at fault. since the l

arwa, was there nothing less torturous for them? was there no one else? no other countries willing to help them or at least less hostile to them? >> and there's been quite a lot of debate about that and discussion about, you know, people coming out and saying "why don't they just stay in turkey? they were safe in turkey." or lebanon, jordan. the problem is, when you've left your home and when your home is physically destroyed or you cannot go back to it because your country is answer ravaged by war as a place like syria is, when you accept the reality that that war is not going to end any time soon and that you cannot actually call your homeland home anymore then, yes, you do try to start somewhere else and a lot of these people tried to make ends meet in countries like turkey and lebanon. but turkey, for example, has taken in close to two million refugees. lebanon's population right now, a quarter of lebanon's population are refugees. those two countries cannot sustain this. these people cannot get jobs in these countries. their children do not have acce

thank you, arwa. david, my god, this is medieval.re are thousands of people trying to walk across europe. this can't be a solution. this just can't be allowed to happen. >> well, and you're right. this is a historic moment. there are more displaced people in the world today than there have been since world war ii. 60 million, six, zero. it's unprecedented. europe is seeing it now but -- and it's the result of unprecedented number of conflicts. there's 15 wars that have restarted or started in the last 5 years. you know, asylum application this is the u.s. are up by 55%. people are fleeing myanmar. the focus is now on europe, but this shows how we live in a global world and these conflicts will impact europe now and the united states potentially as well. >> the prime minister of hungary with thousands of refugees trapped at train stations said this is a german problem. >> that's the problem is everyone is blaming everyone else. the key question and it's amazing what arwa said, are these people victims that these average hungarians sho

. >>> next, we have an inside look at the refugee crisis in europe with our arwa damon. it's a fascinating story. "a desperate crossing" starts right now. >> your country is in chaos. you have a choice. stay and face war. or leave and take your chances. pay a smuggler, follow the crowd, or go it alone. unsure if you've made the right

hungary, and arwa, thank you so much., over to ivan, as john laid out, he is on a boat between turkey, and greece, and following that angle which is just as desperate of a situation for many of these folks seeking asylum, and ivan, what are you seeing there? >> well, kate, this is the aegean sea. it is is the channel that thousands and thousands of people a day are used to smuggle themselves from turkey over here, and the coast of turkey across this body of water over to the greek islands like the island oflessbos -- of lesbos saying that they are getting thousands of greek immigrants wa washing up on the coast there everyday, and how are they doinging it? by inflatable pontoon dinghies. you can see they are out there p pushed out to sea by smugglers who then one abandoned on board is left to steer themselves toward greece. in the case that we saw, then the boat then turned in circles, because the passengers didn't know how the steer the vessel, and it is a potentially deadly trip that people are taking, and scores of peo

good morning, arwa. >> reporter: good morning, john.he weather most certainly not helping adding to the already miserable conditions. people here gathered around a small fire as they wait for those buses to arrive. if one really wants to look for that silver lining in all of this, because of the rains, these buses that people have been waiting for have been arriving relatively quickly. the number of refugees here that we have been seeing over the last few days have significantly diminished this morning because as we were hearing the buses coming with more frequency and the hungarians getting a bit more organized. faster in the process of trying to get people moving out. of course, these rains, cold temperatures, underscoring how important it is for all of these various countries that these people are transiting through to really get the process going. this is an area where unhcr was supposed to be building a more permanent shelter. that is obviously needed at this stage. as time goes on, the rains will continue and temperatures will con

we are continuing to see scenes like this unfold. >> arwa, they have got to figure out how to make it figure out how they will handle that refugee crisis. they have to do it quickly. >>> from the serbia border to austria, thousands of refugees arriving over the weekend by train. even on foot. 11,000 in all according to government officials. the policy to let them in could be short lived. cnn's coverage of the migrant crisis continuing with frederik pleitgen live in vienna. we are seeing these refugees go through vienna and then germany, but i feel these resources are thin for these countries. >> reporter: they are, but germany has been willing to take in as many as 800,000 refugees. interestingly, alison, what organizations are saying, they say europe could deal with a major influx of refugees. however, what they have to do is distribute the refugees to all european countries and that is the conflict. >> we are having some audio technical difficulties. we will try to get fred back. >> he has been amazing reporting from munich. what is interesting, alison, the hub where people are comi

arwa damon joins us with more on this.> reporter: hi, and we've stopped now on these railroad tracks. you can see everyone -- most of them seated and then surrounded by the police force. now, these people broke out of the holding area that is where they report to when they first cross into hungary. they broke out because they were absolutely fed up with the length of the wait and the conditions that they were having to wait and it was not an organized effort. they just made a run for it, and then one group made it through the police lines. everyone else immediately followed and they bolted, ran as fast as they possibly could for the longest time, especially difficult for the children. some of them actually even lost their shoes like this faenl that's over here. i don't know if you can see them, but those two little kids right there, brother and sister, both of them losing their shoes as they did try to make that run for it. everyone eventually forced to slow down, especially with everything that they were carrying, especia

we want to turn to arwa damon who's there. what is the scene we're seeing, arwa?igrants and refugees who just broke out of the holding area right along the border with serbia. the police are literally right behind them. cnn. the police are literally right behind them and in front trying to bring them under control. there are hundreds of them that staged this breakout because they were fed up at the conditions they were being held in. they couldn't take it anymore. young, old, men, parents with families, all breaking through and now also being pursued by the police force through this cornfield. this all kicks off about half an hour ago. and there are people who have been carrying their children. there are some elderly among these crowds. these are people who at this stage are literally running for their lives. they took a risk when they broke out of the camp. they knew that. they were terrified of what the police would do. and now they are not only afraid of being caught, but of what their potential punishment might be and of being brought into those camps that the

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senior correspondent arwa damon is live in budapest. they, in many cases, have tickets, but not allowed to board the train to germany where the chancellor says come here. >> reporter: that makes it difficult. the longer they are stuck here in hungary, the longer they are living on the streets. that is the train station. there used to be a line of police that were blocking migrants and refugees from entering it and getting on those trains. earlier this morning, they cleared out, opened the door, and everyone's first assumption is the route to germany must be opened. they flooded inside and jumped on the first train they saw. problem is, none of the trains departing from this station, according to the government spokesman are crossing hungary's borders. no international departures. that is something the government is impleme amplementing at this. we spoke to people and asked them where they thought they were going because they are waiting. they say they hope they are going to germany. asked if international departures were closed. yes, in

let's go to arwa damon, who was on the ground in hungary. >> reporter: this is the wall that hungaryrocess of building, its attempt to try to control or stop the flow across its border. people taking a bit of the break in the shade, because just getting this far takes them anywhere from two to five weeks. they are mostly refugees of the wars in syria, iraq and afghanistan. their journey begin in turkey with a dinghy takes them to the greek islands. from it there they move on to the mainland, and eventually to the greece-macedonia border. they walk across, and they board trains that take them there mass donna, where again they walk, taking various forms of transferred that drop them at certain tracks. they follow these tracks into hungary and they reach this point, this the entry to the european union. at the end of these tracks for many the most difficult and what they say the unhumane portion. the holding areas, conditions are less than ideal and growing even more frustrated, many of them have been pushing think police lines. a group this morning managing to get down the road, then

ar arwa, why are authorities holding up the trains?>> reporter: well, hungary has maintained it's simply abiding by the dublin agreement and appealing to european union laws when it comes to the whole asylum process, dictating an individual needs to apply for asylum at their first point of entry. the problem is no one wants to fight for asylum in hungary because they don't have a say in hungary. the other problem is going to the camps. at this stage this is even more important that many of them are traumatized by the experience that they had when they went to the transit camp that is located on the hungarian border where everyone tells you about the conditions that they were meant to live in. they say they were treated like andimals, that the conditions they were in were inhumane, that their treatment was inhumane, so they can't really stand the idea of going back into these camps. now we're on one train stopped here for about seven hours. there's a second train that just arrived on other tracks. families were taken off of that train.

let's bring in correspondent arwa damon. arwa, what are you seeing there? >> reporter: good morning. austria is suspending rail service. that does not mean it shut its border down to those trying to make it through. it means they are walking across the border which is something we have been seeing them do in the past. take a look at the situation out here. the rain and weather has turned this holding area into a mud pit. there is still no organized aid. what you see is a lot of volunteers packing up trucks with much-needed warm clothing and boots. these people arrive here often soaked to the bone having walked under the rain for hours. then they sift through the various clothing that they can find and try to get dry clothes, but also warm clothes. the temperatures here are dipping significantly. you have the buses coming to pick people up arriving with more frequency than the past. the buses will take people on to the various different transit camps and from there, if the system works the way it is supposed to, they get finger printed, registered and then t

arwa damon was along for the run. >> the police are literally right behind a man in front -- we're withng to bring them under control. there are hundreds of them that staged this breakout because they were fed up at the conditions they were being held in. they couldn't take it any more. young, old, men, parents, families, all breaking through, and now, also being pursued by the police force. >> arwa damon joining us live from budapest. a lot of these refugees you've been meeting for the past few weeks, what are their backgrounds. >> jake, there's the father who carried his girl on his shoulders the entire way. these are mostly people fleeing the bloodshed in syria, iraq and afghanistan, they come from all sorts of different backgrounds, you have a lot of young men who were in the middle of their university careers, a lot of people studying to be doctors, architects and engineers. you have successful businessmen that saw everything stripped away from them due to the war, you have a lot of middle class families from cities like damascus, aleppo and the coastal city of letakia. these are p

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 for those that cross the border. we were speaking to the women and little girls. they told us they have been waiting in line since 5:00 a.m. they arrived yesterday and had to spend the night out here in the cold. it does get very bitterly cold here. people are extremely frustrated because the hungarians have not been able to move them through quickly enough. we were here a week ago and the wait time was about 5 to 12 hours. now we are told it is up to 36 hours up to three days. you see it gets chaotic when a bus arrives as it did just now. people shoving through all of them desperate to get on to those buses that are going to be taking them to the transit camps. desperate not because they want to go to the camps, but because they want to get out of here. this is their only option. they are not allowed to walk. there is very little by the way of aid here. there is

arwa, describe the scene. >> reporter: just take a look at how crowded this station is. we are 20 to 30 miles outside of budapest. these are families around us right now that all need the war in syria making this horrific journey with their children. they are not entirely 100% sure where this train is going to end up. some people told them it's a town that's on the hungarian very australian border. and they could be going to a camp, they don't know. they got on the train uncertain where they were going but just wanted to cling to small and little hope that maybe it would get them all the way to germany because they just couldn't take it. they couldn't take staying in the budapest train station any more. there is a police presence outside at this location that we're stopped at creating quite a bit of uneasy amongst those who are here. when we first rolled up here and they saw the police force, there was a little bit of panic where they thought they would be forcibly removed from the train. everyone agreed if that were to happen, they would not. it's a very uncertain situa

let's go live to budapest and bring in arwa damon. a desperate situation for the people there at the train stations who are trying to get to germany and get to some sort of normalcy in europe. >> reporter: they are, christine. just look at this situation that they have been left in. the train station did allow them to board the trains finally. that created a sense of optimism so people cued for hours to buy train tickets, up to ten hours in some case. on tuesday, all of a sudden, they were no longer allowed to board the trains. exactly why? it isn't clear. whatever regulations were benched for the migrants and refuges on monday that opportunity has been lost and we are seeing their numbers that are continuing to swell and grow. they have been demonstrating in front of the main train stations entrance just behind me. police presence throughout all of this. it's really hard, christine, for the parents who try to save their children from the war zones that are in syria and iraq and also afghanistan. have you these different groups of mig

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impressive reporting has come from the journalists who have been there for a long time like cnn's arwaamon who has covered the brutal fighting inside syria and on refugee camps inside turkey, jordan and iraq. she is at the gates of europe on the border between serbia and hungary reporting the story with power and passion. >> arwa, thank you for coming on the program. you have been covering this refugee crisis for years, you've been covering what is happening in syria and how it's spread to other countries. why do you think it seems to be breaking through now? >> i think right now it's difficult to ignore for the western world to try to turn its back on what's happening because the -- syria and iraq crises and afghanistan, for that matter, have literally made their way all the way through europe. and deeper into western europe. you cannot ignore scenes like this anymore because this is not something that is isolated. this is something that is happening on a daily basis. thousands are making this trek. and what are now absolutely miserable conditions, parents you see they are trying to s

you can see arwa damon walking with these migrants. arwa, what can you tell us?rol, there are thousands of people, most of them refugees from the war in iraq and syria, who a short while ago decided that they weren't going to wait any longer. they were not going to wait for any sort of political decision. they were not going to wait for anyone to come to their assistance. they were simply going to try to walk to their final destination, and that is first off the border between hungary and austria and then if they have to, they say, onwards to germany. pretty much everybody who was at that budapest train station just waiting decided to pack up. parents have been carrying their children on their shoulders. others have been walking. you see some of thaem carrying bottles of water. this has been heartening because the hungarian government and security forces have been fairly hostile towards the migrants. these bottles of water were handed out to them by ordinary citizens, people who were so upset by what they were seeing. many of them upset at the fact their governme

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these are the train tracks that they follow, ashleigh, as they move from serbia into hungary. >> arwaerbian border with hungary. just a remarkable story developing there. >>> where do these people go next? cnn's senior international correspondent frederik pleitgen joins me from the train station in vienna, austria. arwa was reporting so many of these refugees are on the march or on the trains trying to get out of hungary bound for austria or germany. you here in austria, it seem this is would be the promise land for them going on to better lives but it seems like it's yet another stopping point. what's happening? >> it certainly is yet another stopping point. it's so interesting because over the weekend there were about 17,000 people who went through austria since floodgates open on the night between friday and saturday because what happened was the hungarians weren't allowing anybody to pass into austria, then they said they would put people on buses and bus them to austria. almost all of them want to go on to germany so 17,000 brought near austria over the weekend and all of them ex

arwa? >> reporter: yes, ana. this is one of the holding sites.lly speaking, an individual should not be spending more than two to three hours here, but a lot of these people ended up spending two to three days. i can tell you it is bitterly cold right now. there have been a few small improvements. all of these tents that you see did not exist earlier in the day, they were brought out by volunteers along with vital things like blankets, clothing for the children, warmer jackets, hoodies. you also have food assistance set up over there. people earlier in the day, they were so angry at having to wait out in these conditions with little to no shelter that they actually tried to push through the police. they failed to do so, but they were so frustrated, it showed a level of determination to want to keep going. you also have some medical aid that has been brought in. a lot of medicines to do with colds, fevers, the children especially are getting very, very sick because the temperatures do drop quite significantly at night. and then they're also treati

we find cnn's national correspondent arwa damon. scene is behind you. >> reporter: it's pretty tense right now. there was fairly big scuffle that broke out between the police force here and the refugees who are sick and tired of waiting in these miserable conditions. a number of them lined up over here also waiting to get on the bus. many of them have been waiting out here in this field that was meant to just be a temporary holding area but they have been finding themselves waiting out here for days and at night it gets fairly cold. that has been especially difficult for the children, and if we move over here, we can show you the train tracks that people are following. that is their path from serbia into hungary, and just come over here. i mean, you can see people are still coming. what we're seeing is a clear indication that the hungary is unable to handle the massive influx of people. this so called transit camp is basically a handful of tends with no proper shelter. not enough food or water being distributed and no real medical a

let's get right to cnn senior international correspondent arwa damon, who is walking with his refugeesf these families are with children. how are they coping? >> reporter: well, jake, just take a look at where they have hunkered down for the night on the edge of the main highway connecting budapest to vienna. they are sleeping on the pavement, some of them into the grass, groups of young men doing this journey, making this trek, because they want to later on bring their families, they have you have those making this journey with their children. these strollers, were just given to them tonight. hungarian citizens watches this all unfolding on tv, driving their vehicles up, either giving them strollers that they already had or going out and buying it for them. i cannot tell you what reveal it is for a parent having to carry their child this entire way. what a relief it is for the children. they've been walking for eight, nine hours tonight, it's just so incredibly difficult. they decided to do this, because they could not take waiting out in that train station any longer. they could not

>> atika, ivan and arwa, thank you so much for all those reports.f you are wondering how you can help in the ongoing refugee crisis, visit cnn.com/impact for more on how you can make a difference. >>> turning to developments in the war on isis, british prime minister david cameron today admitted that a targeted drone attack took out two isis terrorists of english descent, riyadh kahn and raul ra minute were killed last month whif driving in a vehicle near the town of raqqa. phil, what can you tell you about these two men? >> jake, the prime minister says sound we have they men, khan was the intended for the strike. we today the prime minister said that this young man was planning, controlling, intended terror attacks here in the united kingdom. that was why it was necessary, he said, and right to effectively execute him. he described it as an act of nationalself defense, jake. >> how significant is it for the prime minister to be announcing this drone strike by the uk? is this a major escalation in britain's involvement in the war in syria? >> this

arwa, thank you so much for the report.t's so important to be seeing exactly what's happening there. we're going to be keeping up some live pictures here from arwa's live location as we talk to the chairman of the house foreign affairs committee, congressman ed royce of california. i hope you were able to see, congressman, the scenes that we are looking at. einar what describing people in what's not really a generally friendly country, as far as the government goes, to these refugees, bringing people strollers and goods, as they make what is really a desperate pilgrimage to austria and germany. what do you think, as you see these pictures, and as you think of what the u.s. needs to do? >> well, it is a tragic and desperate situation, the eu ministers are meeting today, as a matter of fact in order to try to deal with this crisis. the number of refugees are now in excess of 100,000 per month fleeing isis from syria, but also from libya. and so the first question is -- what could we do at the source to turn back isis? because

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arwa damon, cnn, hungary. >> there was a shocking moment on camera as the refugees fled.a hungarian camera woman appears to kick and deliberately trip refugees run aring through the field. you see it right there. at one point she even trips a man carrying a young child. >> a lot of people were talking about this. the far right television station she works for said she will be fired. in a statement, it echoed what so many are saying on social media. the cam operator was unacceptable. that's what the station is saying. >>> australia's prime minister is stepping up the commitment to ease the humanitarian crisis. >> tony abbott pledged to expand the fight against isis. the group he says sh a major cause of the refugee crisis and australia will take in 12,000 refugees from syria and iraq. >> today's commitment by the australian government to take refugees on a permanent basis will be one of the largest commitments made to date anywhere in the world. but hundreds of thousands of people are in camps and they need urgent assistance. so, in addition to the new resettlement in plac

cnn's senior international correspondent arwa damon joins us now live from a train station in budapesty migrants are now stranded. some say they have gone days without food or a place to sleep. >> reporter: without a proper place to sleep for sure. you have people sleeping on the streets. this is just a fraction of the numbers that we are seeing here on a regular basis. the lower level of this train station, you can't even walk through it. so many families have been there, and they've been there for days. a lot of them are running out of money. you were talking about that unspeakably horrific image. if that doesn't begin to move leaders to actually do something, it's difficult to fathom what is going to. we ask parents why it is they take this journey with their children. a lot of them have babies, very small kids. they all say they do it because they believe if they stay back in their respective homelands, iraq syria being the main war zones, they would have ended up dead, anyway, so why not take the risk and try to see if you can get to europe? and at least give a future, your childr

arwa damon. you are standing in front of the wire.ell. >> reporter: that's right. this is hungary's response to this refugee and migrant crisis. initially put this wire up and it is up throughout the entire border. then they will build an even more permanent structure. this, hungary says, is the way to protect europe and the european union borders. the union says this will create more problems than solutions. if you swing around quickly, you see another family coming across. this is such a familiar sight here. children being carried on their parents shoulders. others exhausted. cradled in their parents arms. at this point, they would have walked anywhere from give or take five to three hours. many of them arriving exhausted and tired. it is the middle of the day right now. there is not as much traffic as the early hours of the morning or closer to the evening. a lot of the people have already been through hell in their homelands. most of them are from the war zones of iraq, afghanistan and syria. the territory here is difficult. they

walk the final steps into austria and that's where we find cnn senior international correspondent, arwa damon. >> reporter: they are coming across the border right now. they have to walk this last portion of the trip. it is raining, it is pretty miserable, but very few of them care because finally, they have left hungary behind. they have left the horrific conditions they say they were living in there behind and now they are walking here into austria. they will be boarding buses, taken to a registration center not too far away from here, in that building. they are being heat, clothing, blankets. these people just today have had such a long journey. they left the train station in budapest, they walked for eight or nine hours. deciding to do the trek because they simply were fed up with waiting around for the various politicians and european leaders to make up their minds about how to handle this ongoing migrant and refugee crisis. taking matters into their own hands, trekking with their little children who they are now carrying across, exhausted, many of them from the trip, understandabl

hala, i should tell you this morning we spoke to arwa damon. budapest filled with migrants and refugees hoping to get to germany. let me play you a short clip of our chat with arwa. >> reporter: as we're stopped at a station, it's about maybe 20, 30 miles outside of budapest. these are families around us right now that have all fled the wars in syria making this horrific journey with their children. they're not entirely, 100% sure where this train is going to end up. some people have told them it's a town that's on the hungarian/austrian border. others told them they might others told them they may be going to a will hecation where the camps are in. they got on the train uncertain of where they were going but they want to cling to the small little hope it would get them all the way to germany. >> hala, do we have any information about where that train did end up among the thousands of people hoping to get somewhere? >> reporter: yes. it is stopped outside of budapest and my dwrants and refugees onboard are terrified that it will be stormed by r

let's go bif live live to buddhd bring in cnn's reporter arwa damon.. german chancellor angel merkel saying, come to germany but they are having a lot of trouble in hungary. what is happening? >> reporter: they are flue aware that germany is welcoming and at the munich train station they have more aid for the migrants and refuges more than they know what to do with but yet they are continuing to live in the streets at hungary here and waiting for the hungarian authorities for maybe the german or austrian authorities to come here and do something to open up the route onwards for them. the trains were briefly departing on monday and gave everyone a lot of optimism and hope that finally this existence that they have here was going to be over, but that route was shut down. there have been ongoing demonstration and large crowds gathered in front of the main entrance and it being blocked by police and throughout, people sleeping on the floor on cardboard pizza boxes, on very thin blankets, entire families. you speak to the parents, the morg mothers, they wil

arwa damon have been walking alongside the refugees and their desperation and determination is unwaveringe on the highway that connects budapest to austria, and they decided to walk. they came to the decision and they have been talking about it for a few days because they simply could not wait in the train station, wait for a decision that could impact their lives and finally deciding to take matters into their own hands, and walk, they say, if they have to, all the way to germany. >> reporter: she says we're not just tired but completely broken-down. [speaking foreign language]. >> reporter: the kids, sometimes their resilience is sofa nominal, and as painful as it is for some parents to see their children in these situations, the fact that the kids keep going, they keep laughing and playing in these few moments that they do manage, that gives them a lot of strength. it's heartbreaking for the parents to see some of the situations they already have been in, for example, when they had to beg for water at the syria border, and it has been very difficult for the parents. you can see this ri

. >>> next, we have an inside look at the refugee crisis in europe with our arwa damon. fascinating story. "a desperate crossing" starts right now. >> your country is in chaos. you have a choice. stay and face war. or leave and take your chances. pay a smuggler, follow the crowd, or go it alone. unsure if you've made the right decision, wondering if you'll survive. unwanted, exhausted, afraid. this is the story of a desperate crossing, through the eyes of those determined to find a better future, one that no longer exists back home.

arwa has been receiving some pushback.me of the comments on her twitter feed are ugly and lack compassion. quote, one million migrants equals 1,000 suicide bombers. here. you should dial down on the blame on hungary. these people are animals. muslim migrants are replacing multiculturalism with sharia law. there's a good number of these vile tweets. >> reporter: it's not just us. it is a lot of my colleagues as well from very different networks that are receiving similar messages too on their social media feeds. some of the more disturbing ones we've received will be along the lines of, well, let them just go back to syria and have isis kill them anyways. and why are they bringing their babies? they shouldn't be having children. let them all go back home. there is a shocking lack of empathy in his messages. i think for me personally and i know for a lot of my sclecollea as well, this story in particular is very controversial. but this one in particular, we've seen a lot of intense hate messaging coming out as a reaction. bu

arwa, for those who do survive, what help are they getting?t this stage, brooke, and that's really part of the problem. i mean, if the world is not moved by that image of that little child having washed ashore, if they are not moved to try to do something to help the plight of the people, it's hard to see what else is going to. we've been here at the train station in budapest where there are hundreds if not upwards of 1,000 people, mostly from iraq and syria, most who did survive that treacherous journey across the agean or across the mediterranean and then began their trek throughout europe, but they have been stuck here in budapest unable to move forward, unable to reach western europe's wealthier nations which is where they are trying to go. they are going there because they don't believe that they have a chance at life back home. they are going there, because as so many parents have told us and this is why they do take the risk with their children, they believe if they stayed pack in their respective homelands of syria and iraq they would

as arwa damon reports, they are hoping for a better life than the one they left behind.y his daughter on his shoulders back home she was his princess and he just wants to give her that back again. they are the mother with the law degree who cries every time she talks or even thinks about her children that she had to leave back home. making the trek on her own in hopes they will be able to join her. they are youth, students, groups of young men who also want to bring their families over to europe. who are looking for opportunities that no longer exist for them in their respective countries. things like job, education and just the chance of living a dignified and respectable life. they are people fleeing violence over which they have no control. people who don't want to die. who don't want to watch their children die. so, yes, parents make the impossible decision of bringing over their little ones, their babies because as they keep telling us, if they were to stay back home, they believe they would end up dead. so why not take the chance and try to make it to europe? they

let me go to arwa damon who is live in i believe istanbul. talk to me what about you're hearing on the ground from syria from where these bombs have landed. >> reporter: well, the activist networks are basically saying that these were not isis strongholds that were targeted. in fact -- >> here he is, secretary of defense ash carter. >> today let me begin with syria. last week i observed from this podium, as i had observed privately to russian minister of defense the week prior, that there is a logical contradiction in the russian position and now its actions in syria. russia states an intent to fight isil on the one hand and to support bashar al assad and his regime on the other. fighting isil without pursuing a parallel political transition only risks escalating the civil war in syria. and with it the very extremism and instability that moscow claims to be concerned about and aspire to fighting. so this approach -- that approach is tantamount as i said then to pouring gasoline on the fire. in contrast, our position is clear, that a lasting d

our arwa damon brings us this reporter's notebook. >> reporter: at the greece/macedonia border four days spent after the rain after the macedonians shut it down. >> we're dying. >> reporter: the children's clothes did not even have enough time to dry before the showers started again. and no one, not a single non-profit, not the government, to even provide something as simple as a tarp. a pregnant syrian woman who did not want to be interviewed grabbed my arm in the crowd. eyes welling up she plead, please do something, i don't want to lose my baby. hours after we met the macedonian police started letting people through, some so desperate they threw themselves across. others making a run for it. a mother lost her son. she 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, small places pressed up against the glass, hands waving. but the respite short lived. the further into europe they moved, the worse their treatment became. often traveling overnight on