As the world focuses in on the harrowing journey faced by asylum seekers atempting to make it to Europe, we see footage of waving protests in Hungary and hear about Icelanders opening their homes to Syrians after their government's paltry national cap.
This week is all about what's changing in the world's deepening refugee crisis, and what's staying exactly the same.
This week, some 2,000 people are crowded into the Keleti train station in Budapest, where hundreds are protesting for the second day in a row the prevention of their travel to Germany by authorities. Watch a clip from those protests below.
Meanwhile, Wednesday saw the arrival of over 4,000 asylum seekers in Greece after overnight journeys from the island of Lesbos.
The world is in the middle of the worst refugee crisis since WWII, and no one's really sure what to do about it. But on Twitter, people are definitely speaking up. Governments across Europe still don't agree what the next steps are, but one thing's for sure — whatever's happening now is not working.
This image of the body of a Syrian boy drowned today on a Turkish beach is emblematic of the world's failure in Syria pic.twitter.com/IYiIPgvieG
— Liz Sly (@LizSly) September 2, 2015At #budapest #hungary train station. Another night in the street ... unbearable. #syria #germany pic.twitter.com/PUU4tADHsA
— Arwa Damon (@arwaCNN) September 2, 2015It was better in #Syria, says Ali. There, you die only once. Here, I feel I am dying a thousand deaths. #Hungary pic.twitter.com/53LfVq0q9K
— Peter Bouckaert (@bouckap) September 2, 2015Sound familiar? But in 1940, #Syria was sanctuary for Jews fleeing Europe! Read @ishaantharoor http://t.co/A9FCY3qDHD pic.twitter.com/4fPWNixz03
— Jon Williams (@WilliamsJon) September 2, 2015Some want opening safe routes from Syria to EU. That's no solution. U cant drain Syria from all its ppl, making post-war rebuild impossible
— Jenan Moussa (@jenanmoussa) September 2, 2015
