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Hello, I'm David Austin with the BBC News
A stand-off has developed in Hungary after riot police ordered a large number of migrants to get off train that left the capital Budapest. The authorities wanted to take the migrants to a transit camp that is part of a crackdown on the thousands arrived in the country. But many refugees are refusing to disembark while others are trying to get back on board. Gavin Hewett witnessed the scenes. The woman who was carrying a small baby began crying for help. And then one of her companions tried to help somehow that became a push and shove with the police and she then stood up on the railway line with riot police trying to put her back.And this of course inflamed all the other people on the train and then they break through the line. Some people who come off the train, go back on the train and they will prefer just to stay on the train rather than to go to this processing centre.
Police have now declared each go rail station and operation zone and told journalists to leave. The German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French president Francois Hollande said they presented joint proposals for the fair redistribution of refugees within the European Union. They said Europe must act decisively under the obligations to protect those fleeing war and persecution. Speaking later in the Swiss capital Bern, Mrs Merkel said everybody had to take part in the efforts." We have the duty to defend the rights of those in need. That Geneva Convention on refugees are binding, not just on Germany but on all the member states of the European Union."
Earlier sharp disagreements emerged over how best to deal with the crisis in talks betwwen Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban and European Union leaders. From Brussels, Chris Morris. Mr Orban said the migrant crisis was a German problem not a European one because all the migrants wanted to get to Germany. He said Hungary is only doing its duty and migrants should be told to stay away. But the president of the European Council Donald Tusk publicly rebuted Mr Orban. He said a fair distribution of migrants and refugees across the EU was essential. Europe should help people in need.
Czech police said they stopped writing numbers on the hands of migrants after widespread criticism. Pictures of police officers using a felt-tip pen to mark the refugees have been widely circulated in the international media leading to comparisons with jews being tattooed as they arrived in Auschwitz.
Turkish police have arrested four suspected people smugglers in connection with the drowning of 12 people in Turkish waters on Wednesday. The victims include the three-year-old Syrian boy Aylan Kurdi. Images of his body have stirred international outcry. Aylan,his five-year-old brother and his mother all died as they tried to reach Greece after leaving their home in Kobane in Syria. World news from the BBC.
Guatemala's vice president is expected to assume the presidency today after the incumbent Otto Perez Molina resigned later on Wednesday. The move follows a decision by a judge to issue an arrest warrant for President Perez Molina. Here is Daniel Abraham. President Otto Perez Molina came to power promising to fight crime. Now the former army general is stepping down on amid a corruption scandal that's already forced down his former vice president and a number of ministers. A spokesman had said he will hand himself into police later on Thursday to testify before a judge. He is not being charged and denies the allegations.
There are reports in Turkey that two British journalists charged with aiding militant groups have been released, but that their Turkish based assistant remains in custody. They were arrested last Thursday while working for the vice news group in the mainly Kurtish southeast of the country. The trio has denied the allegations.
Hundreds of farmers from across France have driven into Paris to demand more government help to cope with falling prices for livestock and dairy produce. Nearly 1.5 thousand tractors have converged on one of the capitals main squares, they are demanding a years of moratorium on farmers debt repayment and a 3 billion euro investment package.
An anti-corruption drive in South Africa has revealed that millions of dollars have been spent on paying the salaries more than 30,000 ghost employees, Jonson Massac has the details. Premier of the northwest province S made this bizarre revelation after an investigation aimed at cleaning up corruption in government. Mr. M said that it was clear that some people were manipulating the system, becasue officials could not account for millions of dollars used to pay non exsitent government employees. It also emerged that some of these ghost staff members were also promoted along the way, and their salaries had increased. And that's the latest BBC news.