Erstellt am: 3. 9. 2015 - 13:55 Uhr

Refugees' desperate plight

Confusion over Hungary's response. Reality Check on the latest.

There’s been confusion about what's been going on in Budapest at the main train station there. This morning, refugees were allowed in to the station and to board trains for Vienna but later they were then told they would have to get off.

Hungary’s Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, has been in Brussels for emergency talks there with European Union leaders and explaining to the world his country's position.

Mr Orban is blaming the EU for the situation and says he'll ask Brussels for 8 million euros to help his country deal with the current influx of people.

He has said all refugees and migrants entering Hungary must register with authorities before they can leave for Austria or Germany. Mr Orban has also said Hungary has done everything possible to uphold European Union regulations on asylum. But the numbers have been building at the Budapest Kelati station as the people are becoming increasingly desperate to leave, to head to Germany.

Meanwhile, while the talking continues, the refugees wait. The European commission is reported to be drawing up plans which are due to be unveiled next week, to put in place a system for allocating migrants across the EU according to a country's size and resources. Austrian foreign ministry spokesman Martin Weiss says the problem is too big for any one EU country to manage alone.

So how close is Europe to coming up with answers? We spoke with our correspondent in Brussels, Jack Parrock about what the European Ministers are saying to each other and how Hungary's Viktor Orban is on the defensive here.

Dublin III
Nornally, when an asylum seeker enters an EU Country, that country would register the asylum seeker and their application for asylum would be processed in that point of entry country. If they had made it to a second EU country, they would be sent back to that first point of entry to apply for asylum processing. These are the requirements of the Dublin III regulation, but Germany has said it's not applying those rules for Syrians. Andreas Schloenhardt is a human rights lawyer at the Unversity of Vienna who focusses on migration and asylum issues. So we asked him is Dublin III now over?

To publish or not to publish?
There has been a great deal of discussion over the last 48 hours on the rights or wrongs of publishing photos of the Syrians who had died in the abandoned truck found on the A4. That ethical discussion has also been heightened with the photos of a dead Syrian child, 3 year old Aylan Kurdi, washed up on a Turkish beach. Nadhim Zahawi of the British House of Commons said on Twitter that the picture should "make us all ashamed." But what about a victim's right to privacy and where should publishers draw the line when it comes to reprinting such shocking images? We spoke with Katharine Sarikakis at the University of Vienna, who specialises in media and communication.

In Austria
Volunteers have been waiting in Vienna's main train stations to supply arriving refugees with food and water, as they did earlier this week, while medical centres have also been set up. If you'd like to follow what's going on at the train stations and maybe help, this website:- refugees.at collects twitter feeds of people who are at the stations and tells you what is required and where.

Khadija Ismayilova
From Azerbaijan, we were shocked to learn about the case of Khadija Ismayilova, a reporter for Radio Free Europe, jailed for her investigative work. The core of her reporting was in exposing corruption among the governing elite in the oil-rich former Soviet republic. So what does her imprisonment tell the world about justice in Azerbaijan? We spoke with her former editor at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Kenon Aliyev.