i'm sarah harmon. raging lads in japan or's tens of thousands to evacuate their homes.yphoon etau forced people onto their rooftops and contaminated water into the sea. several people are missing. austria suspends cross-border rail traffic with hungary as thousands of migrants overwhelm the train network. the massive overloading has made austria the latest country to take unilateral action in europe's migrant crisis. staying with the migrant crisis, gerhardt from our business desk has more on the economic impact. gerhardt: thank you. calls are getting louder to step up action against human trafficking. the threat of refugees to europe has become the largest mass migration movement since the second world war, and, naturally, criminals have found ways to turn human suffering into a lucrative business. >> traffickers charge syrian refugees and average 2500 euros per passage to europe -- a lot of money for syrians. since the war started 4 years ago, four out of five syrians have been living in poverty, but many from area, eritrea, afghanistan, and other war-torn countries m

let us bring and sarah harmon in berlin for more on this. this is a dramatic u-turn. ll us more about that. sarah: absolutely is a dramatic u-turn. some people have accused the germany of opening the door and then slamming it shut. it was about two weeks ago that germany announced it would wave regulations that allow migrants to register and apply for asylum in the first eu country that they enter. the result of that decision was a wave of refugees into germany. the country quite simply could not cope. at the present conference yesterday evening, the german interior minister said two very interesting things one you announced the border closure. the first one as you much an annual report, refugees cannot choose which countries will take them in. that is important because it wasn't eu principle known as the dublin regulation that was called into question over the last week. the second interesting thing he said is that germany's decision to close the border is a signal. he used that word, a signal, two other eu members. -- to other eu members. that cannot shoulder this bu