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| Refugee crisis: Thousands arrive in Austria as Croatia promises more trains to Hungary - live | |
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| 10.28am BST10:28 | |
| Croatian reporter Hrvoje Kresic is following the prime minister’s speech, where he repeated his commitment to help refugees reach Hungary should they wish. | |
| #Croatia PM Milanović: We will continue to help #refugees reach borders of #Hungary and #Slovenia. They don't want to be here. | |
| #Croatia PM Milanovic on train issue: There was no deal with #Hungary. #Refugees wanted to go westward, so we forced Hungary to accept them. | |
| Meanwhile, on the Slovenia border, a football match across two countries... | |
| And this is how #refugees can have fun with #Croatia police while waiting for #Slovenia to let them in :) pic.twitter.com/JHqaIfcCjE | |
| 10.07am BST10:07 | |
| Austrian police say 6,700 people have arrived since midnight after Hungary started escorting people to the border. | |
| Police spokesman Helmut Marban has told AP around 4,200 people crossed the border at Heiligenkreuz, near the southern city of Graz, while the remainder used the Nickelsdorf crossing near Vienna. | |
| Austria has border controls in place and vehicles are being spot-checked by police requesting travel documents. | |
| 10.02am BST10:02 | |
| Croatian Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic, has been speaking this morning about the tense situation with Hungary, during a visit to Beli Manastir near the border. | |
| He said Croatia would continue to redirect people to Hungary, as it did last night, in order to force a response from their northeastern neighbour. | |
| “There has not been an agreement with Hungary,” Milanovic said. | |
| “We have in some way compelled them to accept the refugees by sending them [to the Hungarian border] and we will continue to do so.” | |
| The Croatian government’s official Twitter account reported early this morning that trains had returned to the Croatian town of Torvanik to pick up more refugees and take them to the Hungarian boarder. | |
| #Refugees were transferred from Tovarnik to Botovo on the HUN border tonight. They arrived at 5:20am. The train went back to pick up more. | |
| Updated at 10.04am BST | |
| 9.53am BST09:53 | 9.53am BST09:53 |
| EU asylum applications rise by 85% since 2014 | |
| The EU’s data agency has published some detailed figures about asylum seekers in Europe over the first half of the summer, revealing the dramatic rise in the number of people arriving since the start of the refugee crisis: | |
| The statistics have made the front page of the Daily Mail this morning, leading on the fact that four out of five asylum seekers are not Syrian. | The statistics have made the front page of the Daily Mail this morning, leading on the fact that four out of five asylum seekers are not Syrian. |
| Today's front page: Four out of five migrants aren't Syrians http://t.co/Bx4VmLeaMG #MailFrontPages pic.twitter.com/HSh7y9theM | Today's front page: Four out of five migrants aren't Syrians http://t.co/Bx4VmLeaMG #MailFrontPages pic.twitter.com/HSh7y9theM |
| Updated at 10.04am BST | |
| 9.35am BST09:35 | 9.35am BST09:35 |
| Hungarian authorities escort people to border with Austria | Hungarian authorities escort people to border with Austria |
| Since Croatia, overwhelmed by the large number of people crossing through the country, drove busloads of people to the Hungarian border, Budapest has now organised an escort for those people to the Austria border. | Since Croatia, overwhelmed by the large number of people crossing through the country, drove busloads of people to the Hungarian border, Budapest has now organised an escort for those people to the Austria border. |
| Hungary’s defence minister, Istvan Simicsko, announced that he has called up some volunteer military reservists to help deal with the crisis, the state news agency MTI reported today. | Hungary’s defence minister, Istvan Simicsko, announced that he has called up some volunteer military reservists to help deal with the crisis, the state news agency MTI reported today. |
| In Slovenia, hundreds of people are camping out in Obrezje, which is just across the Croatian border, with authorities reportedly only allowing families with women and children to continue through the country. | In Slovenia, hundreds of people are camping out in Obrezje, which is just across the Croatian border, with authorities reportedly only allowing families with women and children to continue through the country. |
| Updated at 9.44am BST | Updated at 9.44am BST |
| 9.25am BST09:25 | 9.25am BST09:25 |
| Some tragic news from Greece this morning, a five-year-old Syrian girl has been found dead and several other refugees are missing after their boat sank, Turkey’s state news agency has reported. | Some tragic news from Greece this morning, a five-year-old Syrian girl has been found dead and several other refugees are missing after their boat sank, Turkey’s state news agency has reported. |
| The Greek coastguard said it had rescued 11 people, including a man and a child who were being treated in hospital for hypothermia, and it was looking for other survivors east of Lesbos. | The Greek coastguard said it had rescued 11 people, including a man and a child who were being treated in hospital for hypothermia, and it was looking for other survivors east of Lesbos. |
| “We were told there were 26 people in the boat in total,” a coastguard spokeswoman told Agence France-Presse. | “We were told there were 26 people in the boat in total,” a coastguard spokeswoman told Agence France-Presse. |
| Since the pictures of three-year-old Alan Kurdi were splashed across newspapers around the world, more children have been found dead on the beaches, with the body of another four-year-old Syrian girl washed up on a beach in western Turkey on Friday. | Since the pictures of three-year-old Alan Kurdi were splashed across newspapers around the world, more children have been found dead on the beaches, with the body of another four-year-old Syrian girl washed up on a beach in western Turkey on Friday. |
| More than 2,600 people have died in the Mediterranean this year. | More than 2,600 people have died in the Mediterranean this year. |
| Updated at 9.35am BST | Updated at 9.35am BST |
| 9.18am BST09:18 | 9.18am BST09:18 |
| Summary | Summary |
| Good morning, the worsening refugee crisis across Europe continues to draw bordering countries into bitter stand-offs. Here are the main developments overnight: | Good morning, the worsening refugee crisis across Europe continues to draw bordering countries into bitter stand-offs. Here are the main developments overnight: |
| Updated at 9.41am BST | Updated at 9.41am BST |