Erstellt am: 31. 8. 2015 - 15:18 Uhr

Border stories

Reality Check: the voices of some of the refugees crossing into Hungary and what climate change has to do with crises such as this one.

Refugee Stories

The Austrian authorities have been carrying out traffic controls near the eastern border and have arrested five migrant smugglers. The checks are causing traffic queues on roads leading to Austria.

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Meanwhile there are reports from Budapest that hundreds of refugees have been trying to board trains heading for Vienna as well as Germany.

EPA/Zoltan Mathe

People walking next to the railway crossing at the border between Hungary and Serbia near Roszke, 180 kms southeast from Budapest.

Nick Thorpe is at the Hungarian border with Serbia and tells us what he’s been hearing from refugees crossing there trying to get to other countries in Europe:

Climate Change, Food Prices & Security

Professor Tim Benton is Professor of Population Ecology at the University of Leeds. He's also the leader and coordinator of the UK's Global Security programme and has just been at the European Forum Alpbach holding a seminar on global food security.

Philipp Naderer

Chris Cummins found out more from Tim Benton about how what we eat affects climate change, how climate change affects food supply and how small changes can have global consequences: