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18.25
Here is a summary of the day:
- This afternoon the harrowing nature of the refugee crisis was depicted in one image of a child who had drowned. The child is believed to be one of two brothers, according to Turkish state news agency Anadolu.
- The child was among 23 refugees who Turkish naval officials said had set off in two small boats from the Bodrum peninsular and later died
- Overnight, migrants in Budapest were forced to camp outside Keleti train station and today were still forced to remain outside because the Hungarian authorities said only those with an EU visa could take the trains. More than 2,000 migrants remained stranded outside the main railway station in Budapest
- David Miliband attacked the UK government for failing to help during the crisis as he attacked the use of the word 'migrant', rather than 'refugee'
- Italy apparently agreed to identification checks at Brennero on the border with Austria today
- As a result, many, including Nigel Farage, claimed that Schengen was falling apart
- In the Czech Republic, police were accused of evoking memories of 70 years ago after they began forcing migrants from trains on their way to Germany and writing identification numbers on their arms in ink
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Jan Semmelroggen, expert on migration policy and management at Nottingham Trent University, said there was no easy solution to solve the large-scale problem.
"We have uncontrolled migration and no common refugee policy. All 28 nations have their own policies and it is not working.
"EU countries should get together and negotiate a burden-sharing mechanism. Right now, a handful of countries are carrying the burden - Greece and Italy and now Hungary are taking arrivals."
17.58
'Schengen is crumbling'
Nigel Farage, the UK Independent Party leader, told the Telegraph: "It is clear the Schengen Agreement is crumbling, as recent events are putting so much pressure on the political agreement.
"Schengen has now hit the buffers of the real world and is falling apart. In a crisis, national interests always prevail over European ideology."
Daniel Hannan, a British Conservative MEP, said: "The two pillars of European integration were Schengen and the euro. Both have now crumbled at the first crisis. I'm not asking the Euro-fanatics to apologise; I just want the rest of us to stop listening to them."
17.36
This is the image that captured the human tragedy of Europe’s migrant crisis: a Turkish border guard tenderly cradling the lifeless body of a Syrian toddler, washed ashore on the beach of a holiday resort.
The body of the little boy, still dressed in the bright red T-shirt and shorts, was found lying face-down in the surf on the beach near the Turkish resort town of Bodrum, 250 miles west of the city of Antalya.
17.24
Slovakia's foreign minister Miroslav Lajcak has said Schengen has fallen apart.
"Schengen has de facto fallen apart. Under normal circumstances, it's difficult to get a Schengen visa, and now there are tens of thousands of people walking around here without anyone checking them," Lajcak said.
"So, do we have Schengen, or don't we?"
Since its creation in 1995, the Schengen area - named after a border town in Luxembourg - has abolished passport controls for travel between 22 of the EU's 28 countries, plus non-EU Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland, AFP writes.
17.20
The European Commission says it has not yet been officially confirmed to them that Italy has temporarily reimposed border controls, writes Justin Huggler in Berlin.
"We can't confirm it has happened," Milica Petrovic, press officer for migration, home affairs and citizenship, said. "We can't comment on it until we get confirmation it has happened."
She said she was "not aware" of a case where one member state had reimposed border controls at the request of another before, or of a case where they were reimposed because of migrants, but that she would have to check.
16.47
13,000: The number of migrants to have reached the Greek island of Lesbos in recent days. More than 4,000 made the trip on Saturday from the Turkish coast in rubber dinghies. The usual population of Lesbos is around 86,000
100: The number of migrants reaching Germany per hour
1.2 million: Syrian refugees being housed in Lebanon – a country 100 times smaller than Europe. The total number of refugees who have left Syria is 4.5 million. One in five people in Lebanon is a refugee.
38 per cent: The percentage of migrants from Syria
12 per cent: The percentage of migrants from Afghanistan
1 per cent: Those migrants who land in Italy and Greece who then reach Calais
300 per cent: Increase in the last three months of women as a proportion of the 3,000 migrants passing through Macedonia each day
12 per cent of those women are pregnant
350,000: The number of migrants registered in Europe since January according to the International Organisation for Migration.
16.35
It was unclear on Wednesday what the Hungarian authorities planned to do with the swelling number of migrants congregated outside Budapest's Keleti station, James Badcock in Budapest writes.
A spokesman for the country's justice ministry said that although the area was labelled a "transit zone", this was "not a legal term", but rather a way used by city authorities to indicate to migrants that they could access basic sanitary services in that area.
"All those people who have had their fingerprints taken and have legally submitted asylum claims can enjoy the benefits on offer in Hungary," the spokesman added.
"The decisions are more complicated, however, as people cross borders illegally."
The interior ministry declined an invitation to explain its decision to close the station to migrants without papers.
Volunteers from the organisation Migration Aid, which relies on donations from the public, admitted they were swamped by the number of people requiring food and blankets.
Police on Wednesday started detaining migrants who strayed from the de facto camp at Keleti station into nearby streets. On viewing police taking away two men, a young local man smiled and said: "Syrians and Pakistanis, they cause big problems. There are too many of them here."
15.51
David Miliband suggests UK should do more
Former foreign secretary David Miliband has urged larger countries to do more to help the refugee crisis in a veiled attack on the current policy in the UK.
Mr Miliband said there needed to be more "burden-sharing" and said UN rules drawn up after Britain took in thousands of refugees fleeing the Nazis should now apply to Africans and Asians, Press Association reports.
Britain was at the forefront of writing the conventions and writing the protocols that established legal rights for refugees. A lot of the legal theory came out of the UK.
"The reasons we did so were good in the the 40s and 50s and they are good today. What applied to Europeans then should apply to Africans and Asians today. We cannot say UN conventions apply to one group of people and not to others."
"There needs to be some burden-sharing ... bigger countries taking more people than smaller countries, richer countries taking more people than poorer countries. Historically the US has taken about 50 per cent of the world's resettled refugees. It would certainly help the European debate if the Americans were seen to be stepping up."
He attacked the use of migrant rather than refugee. "It is a misnamed crisis, and it seems not misnamed by accident.
"It's been too convenient to misname it as a migrant crisis, because it suggests these people are voluntarily fleeing, whereas in fact - if you've been barrel-bombed out of your home three times, life and limb demand that you flee.
"It's not about being politically incorrect in using the term migrant. It's simply incorrect."
15.30
'What is happening is heartbreaking'
Yvette Cooper has described the heartbreaking situation in Europe and urges politicians not to turn their backs.
When mothers are desperately trying to stop their babies from drowning when their boat has capsized, when people are being left to suffocate in the backs of lorries by evil gangs of traffickers and when children's bodies are being washed to shore, Britain needs to act.
"It is heartbreaking what is happening on our continent. We cannot keep turning our backs on this. We can - and must - do more. If every area in the UK took just 10 families, we could offer sanctuary to 10,000 refugees. Let's not look back with shame at our inaction."
15.19
The situation at Budapest’s Keleti station remained dire on Wednesday morning, 24 hours after the authorities decided to prevent people without EU visas from entering the station to board trains towards Germany, writes James Badcock at the station.
Six portaloos appeared in the middle of the night but the sanitary conditions for the more than 1,000 migrants who are camping outside the station are still desperate, and will only get worse as long as so many people remain in what the Hungarian authorities are calling a “transit zone”.
Previously, people were using one public toilet in the underground concourse and there is one shower facility. At the office of Migration Aid, a space set up by a Hungarian organisation to help with basic supplies, a queue was growing this morning, with some families asking when the doctor would arrive. A small medical team has been operating shifts to attend to health problems.
Asked on BBC World Service radio last night why the Hungarian government suddenly closed the tap on migrants leaving on trains after allowing 3,650 to reach Vienna on Monday, Zoltan Kovacs, government spokesman claimed that there had a “set of misunderstandings concerning German announcements on whether they would take anyone who says they come from Syria”.
Mr Kovacs also said that the idea of quotas to distribute refugees across Europe could not work as so many clearly want to go to certain countries. "How would someone who wants to go to Stuttgart be kept in Lithuania?" he asked by way of an example.
14.44
The introduction of temporary border controls between Italy and Austria does not mean Schengen is over but this decision could erode the border controls, says a senior member of German chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative bloc.
"I do not think Schengen is over," Stephan Mayer, a conservative expert on interior affairs.
"But I certainly see the danger that if it is not possible in the long run to apply European asylum rules, that this directly erodes and endangers Schengen," he told reporters in Berlin.
"I do not think Schengen is over," Stephan Mayer, a conservative expert on interior affairs, said of the code which removes border controls between most European states.
"But I certainly see the danger that if it is not possible in the long run to apply European asylum rules, that this directly erodes and endangers Schengen," he told reporters in Berlin.
14.39
Refugees are reportedly being hauled off trains and detained in the southern Czech region of Moravia as well as being numbered in pen on their arms.
The Independent cites local media and uses tweets to show that early on Tuesday morning, 200 refugees were arrested on trains coming from Austria and Hungary.
Czech police have begun removing refugees from trains headed to Germany, detaining migrants and numbering them in pen written on their arms.
Czech media had pictures of police officers using permanent marker pens to number refugees on their wrists and arms.
Local media reported that the migrants said they were travelling from Budapest after being allowed to board by police in Hungary with valid tickets.
13.54
Britain should not take “more and more refugees”, David Cameron has said in his clearest indication that he will not bow to pressure from Germany to accept thousands of migrants entering Europe, Peter Dominiczak, Political Editor, writes.
The Prime Minister rejected calls from European leaders for Britain to take “its fair share” of migrants.
Hundreds of thousands of migrants are flooding into Europe from Syria and Africa, leaving a number of countries struggling to cope.
German chancellor Angela Merkel's CDU/CSU alliance on Tuesday said that Britain's failure to accept more refugees could hurt Mr Cameron's plans to renegotiate the country's relationship with the European Union.
We have taken a number of genuine asylum seekers from Syrian refugee camps and we keep that under review, but we think the most important thing is to try to bring peace and stability to that part of the world.
"I don't think there is an answer that can be achieved simply by taking more and more refugees."
13.24
German 'Airbnb for refugees' group overwhelmed by help
A German 'Airbnb' service which connects refugees and citizens willing to share their homes has been overwhelmed by offers of support, writes David Hodari.
The website, based in Berlin, has helped people from countries including Syria, Somalia, and Burkina Faso, with more than 780 Germans signing up to offer assistance.
So far, 26 people have been placed in private homes with 124 refugees matched overall across Germany and Austria.
Two of Flüchtlinge Willkommen’s founders, Jonas Kakoschke, 31, and Mareike Geiling, 28, have themselves opened their home to 39-year-old Malian refugee Bakary Conan while he waits for a work permit.
13.19
'Taking more Syrian refugees is no answer on its own'
David Cameron defends the UK's record on taking in Syrian refugees and says the answer to the migrant crisis is a political solution in Syria rather than simply taking in more people fleeing the country
13.16
More detail on the checks mentioned earlier in Italy.
Bolzano, in the German-speaking Alto Adige region in northern Italy, said Bavaria had asked for "logistical support".
The region will also take in "between 300 and 400 refugees", housing them temporarily in a number of gyms already equipped for such use, under the organisation of the civil protection agency, and at the cost of the state.
"Bavaria is witnessing record arrivals of refugees, mainly via the Balkan route, which is creating an unmanageable situation," the province said, adding that efforts were underway "to find new structures and cope immediately with the exponential growth in the number of migrants".
12.45
Sarah Norman and her husband arrived at around 11am on a train that was meant to arrive yesterday evening but got stuck outside Calais. They spoke to Camilla Turner earlier today.
Ms Norman, 33, from Bexley, works in the beauty department at John Lewis and was on a company weekend (group of 94 people) at Disneyland Paris with her husband Daniel and four-year-old daughter Eloise.
"The worst thing was the lack of information from Eurostar. They said it was a technical issue. They left us on the train for hours just outside Calais with no air conditioning, no food and water and the lights went out so we were in the dark. There were no announcements at all for two hours and we couldn't find anyone to ask what was happening.
"People were saying they would smash windows to get some air. We were told to listen out for migrants in the roof and report any sounds so they could catch them.
"I was worried and thought: were they armed? What will they do?
"I think we were towed back to Calais- we were told we would be here for 15 minutes but it was four hours. They told us we had to go through the passport and baggage control which took four hours.
"There was nothing to eat or drink. There was one toilet between 900 people. Children can't wait hours for the toilet. You didn't want to drink because then you would need the toilet."
12.33
Meanwhile in France and London, Camilla Turner reports that everyone who was on the train that got stuck outside Calais for five hours arrived in London on the 10.50am train which was specially chartered for them.
People who were on the train that was sent to Lille have been coming back to London on different trains that they are booking at their leisure so Eurostar doesn't know if all of them have returned to London.
A Eurostar spokesman said: "Services are back to normal today. Our focus is making sure that or service is reliable for customers.
We absolutely apologise (to people delayed overnight). It was a very difficult situation for customers. We made sure there were staff on hand at Calais and London. We wanted to let everyone know about our policy for compensation."
12.29
Italy is ready to impose identification checks at Brennero on the border with Austria after receiving a request from Germany for help in easing the flow of migrants into Bavaria, the northern province of Bolzano said Wednesday.
Rome was ready to "reactivate" controls just as it did for the G7 in June, as "a temporary measure to allow Bavaria to reorganise and face the emergency", a statement from the province said.
12.14
BREAKING via AFP: Italy ready to impose border controls after Germany request
12.12
The huge delays on Eurostars overnight were caused when up to 150 migrants broke into rail tracks around the Calais-Frethun station, a police source has confirmed, writes Henry Samuel in Paris.
While five trains were sent back to their departure stations, one was unable to move after a "gas leak" from one of its engines, according to a local rail spokesman.
Around 100 to 150 migrants got in at around 9pm (French time on Wednesday night) to the Calais-Frethun station via the tracks in order to climb on board the Eurostar. We had to get everyone off to search the tracks," he told AFP.
The break-in comes after Eurotunnel, which operates the site directly outside the Channel Tunnel entrance, called on France's national rail operator, SNCF, to ensure the Calais station was "more secure". It warned that migrants had "changed strategy" and were now seeking to reach the tunnel via tracks much farther from the entrance in a zone under SNCF control.
Eurotunnel insisted that "no migrants entered the Channel Tunnel" overnight. "The migrants were on SNCF tracks at Calais station and not in the Channel Tunnel," said a spokesman.
On August 25, SNCF Réseau, which runs the tracks at Calais-Frethun, confirmed that it was due to install "high-security fences" around the station to protect it from intrusions.
We are actively working with Eurotunnel and French and British authorities to bolster the protection of the Calais-Frethun site," said a local spokesman at the time, adding that the fencing would be "identical to those placed at the port of Calais".
Journalists at Calais-Frethun were not allowed to approach stranded passengers for fear that migrants might seek to sneak onto the stricken Eurostar.
The 700 or so who spent five hours in a Eurostar just outisde the station then several more on the platform were finally allowed to board a rescue train sent from London at 10am French time (9am UK time), some with reflective survival blankets.
The departure of the rescue train was delayed by passport controls on passengers to ensure none were illegal migrants.
12.03
'We will not engage in a blame game'
The EU is accelerating work on a new, permanent system of migration management, says Natasha Bertaud, commission spokesmnan, writes Matthew Holehouse in Brussels.
A crisis on a frontline member state would automatically trigger a system to relocate a proportion of people in need of protection according to a quota.
The UK and Ireland will have opt-in right, meaning it is not compulsory.
The commission is asked whether it agrees with the remarks of Werner Faymann, the Austrian chancellor, that Britain cannot expect anything from the renegotiation because it is not pulling its weight on asylum.
"This is part of a blame game that we are not keen to engage in ourselves," Margaritis Schinas, Mr Juncker's spokesman, says.
The trigger for an emergency situation is a detail that needs to be settled, Ms Bertaud says.
The original plan was for this mechanism to be ready by the end of the year, but after accelerating it, they now hope to have something ready for a meeting of EU Home Secretaries on September 14.
11.59
Juncker hits back at critics
At the midday briefing at the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker's team were keen to stress that he has been active on the crisis, as they round on people accusing the EU of inaction, writes Matthew Holehouse in Brussels.
Migration will be "central" to Mr Juncker's State of the Union address next week, his spokesman, Margaritis Schinas, says.
He was at pains to stress Mr Juncker had been working "day and night" to resolve the issue, and urged journalists to re-read the Juncker proposals for a migration policy from May as evidence that the EU has been on top of the issue.
In barbed comments, he said "some" people seem to only have discovered the text. The remarks are aimed at those who are "attacking" the EU when "we were the first" to make proposals. He said the EU has come under attack from people who "blame Brussels for everything".
Mr Juncker will be "swift, bold and complete" in delivering that agenda, which met with resistance from member states over plans to share 40,000 migrants.
On Friday, EU vice president Frans Timmermans and commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos will visit the Dodecanese on the island of Kos, meeting local politicians, NGOs and border force officials. They will also go to Piraeus, a major centre of migration processing.
11.45
'Worried about daughter'
Mark Whittaker, 50, from Barnsley told Camilla Turner he has been waiting overnight at Kings Cross station for his wife Rose and five-month-old baby to arrive from Paris.
"I came last night to meet them. They were meant to arrive at 8.39pm. I waited and waited but they didn't arrive and they still haven't. I hope they are on the next train. I know they'll be OK but I am worried about my daughter".
11.37
Passengers' 'awful' experiences
Camilla Turner is at St Pancras station in London for the Telegraph and has been speaking to passengers.
Alice Gilbert, 19, from Surrey, was meant to return last night from Paris where she had been on holiday at music festival Rock on Seine with her twin sister Fay and their friend Tara Muray.
It was exhausting. Our train was meant to get to London at 8pm last night. It left Paris but then stopped for hours and then took us to Lille at about midnight where we were told to get off the train and wait on the platform.
"They said it was to do with the brakes but later they said it was also to do with migrants.
"There were hundreds of people on the platform in Lille and it was a bit of a panic. It was cold and all the staff had gone home, so there was no one to ask what was happening, all signs were only in French and was nothing to eat or drink.
"We got a train back to Paris at about 3am and they gave is a twix and some water. We found a hotel by gare du nord and slept there for three hours then got a train to London. It was exhausting."
Kerri-Ann Maxwell, 48, who went to Paris for a day with her husband Bill, 50, said the past 24 hours had been "awful".
"We were on the Eurostar from Paris at 6.45pm yesterday evening but the train kept stopping and starting. At first we were told there was a problem with the brakes, then we were told we were waiting for a replacement train.
"Eventually the train took us to Lille at about midnight and we waited there until we were put on another train to Paris which arrived at 2am this morning. When they put us on the train back to Paris they told us the Channel Tunnel has been closed due to migrants in the tunnel.
"They didn't offer us a hotel - we slept in the station until 6am when we finally got a train to London. Some people slept in a park and others found all night bars in Paris while they waited.
"It was meant to be a day holiday to Paris and it's been awful and the lack of information has been frustrating."
11.27
Passengers on 'rescue train'
According to Eurostar, the 19.13 Paris Gare du Nord to London St Pancras service was held at Calais at around 20.45 last night when all traffic through the Channel Tunnel was suspended because of trespassers on the line, writes Gordon Rayner.
Power to the lines was cut off to enable police to search for the trespassers, and the passengers were left on the train for several hours as a result. Because the power to the train had been turned off for so long, it was unable to restart, having initially operated on reserve power to keep the air conditioning running.
The passengers were taken off the train and onto the platform at Calais, where they were eventually picked up at 9.45am UK time by a “rescue train” to get them to London.
Two other trains, one in each direction, were unable to continue their journeys last night and had to return to Paris and London, and three further London-bound trains were delayed for three to four hours but were eventually able to reach London.
Eurostar services use one track in each direction, meaning the broken down train was blocking the line, though no trains could travel in either direction while the power was switched off.
Eurostar confirmed to the Telegraph that its carriages have no free-flowing air when the air conditioning is switched off, which is part of the reason the carriages became so hot and airless.
A spokesman for Eurostar said: “We are very sorry that this issue has happened. We are working with the authorities to make sure we have better understanding to prevent it happening again.”
Passengers who were stuck on the train will be entitled to a full refund and a free ticket to travel on Eurostar in the future.
11.00
Passengers on the 19.13 Paris Gare du Nord to London St Pancras service have still not arrived in London, almost 16 hours after their Eurostar train set off, writes Gordon Rayner, the Telegraph's Chief Reporter.
It was their train that became stranded at Calais station after migrants got onto the tracks, forcing the operators to turn off the power to the tracks, which in turn delayed five other trains.
Eurostar is querying reports saying that migrants got into the roof of the 19.13 train, saying it has no evidence that that happened, though passengers may have assumed it happened when they were told to report any sounds of footsteps from overhead.
A rescue train bringing the passengers to London is due to arrive in "a couple of minutes", Eurostar says.
10.48
Czech Republic, Austria and Slovakia prime ministers will meet in Bratislava on Monday to discuss migration, the Czech government's spokesman said today.
In recent weeks, the countries have seen many thousands of migrants going through the countries to reach Germany - which is expected to receive 800,000 migrants this year.
According to Reuters, most refugees go through Austria but increasing numbers are crossing via Czech Republic,
10.32
From "destroyed" Syria to Keleti station
James Badcock is at Keleti station and has speaking to those hoping to go westwards. He notes the station's surrounding areas are becoming more like a camp for many including those fleeing war in Syria.
You can read his wrap of last night's events here and follow him for more updates on Twitter here.
10.17
Police in Austria have prevented a new migrant tragedy after they rescued 24 asylum-seekers trapped in the back of a white van without air, Justin Huggler in Berlin writes.
The migrants, who were all young Afghan men aged between 16 and 20, were in grave danger, according to police.
The doors and windows of the white van had been welded shut to prevent them being detected, and there was no access to fresh air.
They were crammed into a tiny space measuring just 11 feet by 6 feet and discovered after police stopped the van in Vienna when officers became suspicious.
The driver, a 30-year-old Romanian, fled on foot, and didn’t stop even after a warning shot was fired. He was later discovered by a police dog hiding nearby.
The incident comes a week after the bodies of 71 migrants were found in an abandoned lorry in Vienna. It is believed they suffocated.
The 24 Afghans escaped serious injury. They have not asked for asylum in Austria, and police say they want to continue their journey to Germany.
10.08
Medecins Sans Frontieres have been sharing images of their rescue of refugees via Twitter.
They work in the Mediterranean Sea and are saving hundreds of lives.
10.05
AFP has spoken to some of the migrants protesting at Keleti station. The exasperation is keenly felt in comments by Mohammad, a Syrian.
Normal people, abnormal people, educated, uneducated, doctors, engineers, any people, we're staying here. Until we go by train to Germany," said Mohammad, a Syrian protesting at the station.
And this is what we will be doing (protesting) for the next day, for the next month, for the next year and for our whole life. We need our rights... It's not our dream to stay here and to sleep in the streets."
AP reported they shouted: "What we want? Peace! What we need? Peace!"
09.57
Travellers blast Eurostar
Angry travellers find themselves dumped at St Pancras station after a number of Eurostar services were forced to turn back to London when migrants went on the tracks
09.49
Plans by EU member states to deport failed asylum seekers under a fast-track system are likely to break European human rights law, according to a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights, Matthew Holehouse in Brussels writes.
On Monday the court ruled against Italy over the deportation of three Tunisians in 2011, just as the EU proposes a similar fast track system to help cope with an influence from Africa and the Middle East.
Italian authorities sent the men back after they fled Tunisia's Arab Spring uprising and they were arrested during a protest by migrants on the island of Lampedusa.
Their deportation was unjustified because the "collective expulsion" failed to treat each man on a case-by-case basis and did not include individual interviews or bespoke documentation, the Strasbourg court ruled.
It said that the expulsion decisions were "identically worded" and with no reference to the personal situation of the migrants, and therefore violated Article 4 of the 4th Protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights. The court also noted other breaches in the case.
It comes as the European Commission proposes speeding up the repatriation of migrants who do not qualify for asylum.
It also wants to agree a list of 'safe' countries whose citizens are less likely to be eligible for asylum in the EU to "fast track" removals.
Thorbjorn Jagland, the secretary general of the Council of Europe, said: “The migration crisis poses a serious threat to the respect for human rights in many parts of Europe.”
“Today’s judgment is a timely reminder to all 47 Council of Europe countries that asylum seekers and migrants must be treated as individual human beings with the same basic rights as everyone else, as guaranteed by the European Convention on Human Rights.”
09.22
Mr Burnham accused the Government of burying its head in the sand over the "humanitarian crisis", Press Association reports.
"This is a humanitarian crisis, not just a tedious inconvenience for British holidaymakers, as our Government might have us believe," the Labour leadership candidate told the Royal United Services Institute.
"Our Government has done nothing but bury its head in the sand and deploy dehumanising language to describe desperate people."
"[Ministers should] work co-operatively with the rest of the EU to come up with a fair and compassionate solution, in which every member state shares the burden of caring for genuine asylum seekers."
09.17
Passengers threatened to "smash the windows" of the Eurostar on a Paris-London Eurostar stuck overnight not far from the French side of the Channel Tunnel after hours spent in the dark with no air conditioning or communication, Henry Samuel in Paris writes.
Frédéric Bruel, a French passenger, told France Info radio that the train was stopped at around 9.30pm just four minutes from the Calais-Frethun train station, meaning nobody could leave the train, and electricity was cut.
Little by little the situation deteriorated. The train ended up running out of batteries, so there was no air conditioning, and then after two more hours no more communication as the audio system was out of service. We then spent an unbelievable amount of time in the dark, in an air that was hard to breath.
"I saw people who were finding it hard not to totally go off the rails. Some people started screaming and threatening to smash the windows. It must have been 35C in there.
"And all this time, we were just four minutes from the Calais-Frethun train platform. I was told by rail staff once we finally got to the station that we were locked in this train, whose doors were shut mechanically and impossible to open – imagine if there had been a fire – because those in charge were scared that that if they opened the doors, then migrants would try and make the most to get into the train."
09.08
Migrants protest in Budapest
Up to 150 migrants are protesting against the Hungarian authorities decision to stop anyone without an EU visa boarding a train. According to AFP, some 2,000 were stopped from boarding trains on Wednesday.
As previously mentioned, many migrants slept outside the station in what many are now referring to as a "camp". Hundreds are outside Keleti station while 1,200 were downstairs in a "transit zone", AFP reported.
The migrants are mainly from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.
Near the border with Serbia, 100 migrants were sitting on the platform at a suburban train station and refused to board a train to the Debrecen refugee camp.
The group "demanded to be allowed to travel on to Germany... Police have taken the necessary security steps to ensure that train traffic is undisturbed", police said.
08.47
Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood has been on BBC Radio 4's Today programme calling for Wales to accept "a fair share" of migrants, Michael Wilkinson, one of The Telegraph's Political Correspondents, reports.
But she admits that her suggestion has had a "muted response" so far. She made the call after Labour's shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper yesterday called for Britain to accept 10,000 migrants.
She also said that the government needs to work with Wales and Scotland to come up with a joint solution.
08.30
Passengers stuck on a Eurostar overnight in the dark after electricity was cut have vented their fury at the lack of information given during their harrowing ordeal, Henry Samuel in Paris.
Eurostar said they had sent a rescue train to Calais to carry passengers stuck at the Channel Tunnel entrance overnight on train 9055 after leaving Paris at 7.42pm local time on Tuesday night.
English-speaking passengers expressed outrage at the lack of information on their ordeal via Twitter:
According to some of the 750 people onboard, tensions were high. “We didn’t see any migrants but we knew they were everywhere on the roof and that’s why we had to wait for a helicopter to come to check none were above us,” one French passengers told Le Monde.
According to one, the train controller apparently told passengers to inform him if they heard "footsteps on the roof".
A regional spokesman for SNCF, the French national rail operator, said: “Some people invaded the tracks, which led to a slowdown of a train at the tunnel entrance on the French side.”
“Once the train had stopped, security forces intervened to evacuate (the area) and this meant the Eurostar that was on the line to London was stuck, and we had to cut the electricity for security reasons. The area was freed (of migrants) by around 1.30am.”
However, at 7am French time, the train was still stuck in Calais-Frethun.
Finally Eurostar announced that a “rescue” train was on its way from London and would arrive in Calais at 8am local time to bring passengers to their final destination.
A reminder that on Monday, Manuel Valls, the French prime minister insisted the Eurotunnel site was now fully protected in a visit to Calais to announce new funds to set up a refugee camp.
He said: “Today the Franco-UK borders are fully under control. To come to Calais is to throw yourself into a dead end."
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More from Henry Samuel in Paris:
A Eurostar train was stuck in Calais overnight due to migrants having penetrated the Eurotunnel site just two days after the French PM said the site was "fully under control".
In all six Eurostars were involved but while the others were sent back to their departure stations, one got inexplicably stuck in Calais Frethun as police reportedly chased migrants and sent a helicopter to check none were on the roof of the train.
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Overnight, Eurostar services between Britain and France had to be suspended after migrants trespassed on the track outside Calais and there were reports some were on top of the trains.
Passengers on five trains had to be held while police cleared migrants from the track. Press Association reported that a London-bound train was unable to get back to Paris because of a technical fault several hours earlier.
But a spokesman for Eurostar told the Telegraph they had resolved the issue and sent an empty train to Calais from London earlier to take those stranded passengers.
The spokesman added that services will hopefully be running normally today after two trains were cancelled going outbound and one returning to Paris overnight.
What has happened since yesterday night?
Last night our reporter in Budapest, James Badcock, shared images of migrants sleeping near Budapest's main international railway station after Hungary prevented them leaving to go to Germany.
Our reporter says there are scores of children and lots of families while Associated Press reports that 3,000 were at Keleti station stranded today.
Before Tuesday, migrants would continue their journey westwards but Hungary said it would stick to EU rules and not allow anyone without EU visas to travel.
Volunteers last night struggled to provide food and clothes to all migrants because they usually dealt with only a few hundred migrants at a time, AP reported.
Meanwhile in Greece, thousands of migrants were taken to the mainland from Piraeus port overnight, the country's coast guard said.