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Migrants Halted at Hungarian Border

Europe's migrant crisis deepens as crowds in Serbia are stranded at border crossing with Hungary and Greece returns to the headlines when its citizens head to the polls on Sunday.

Europe's migrant crisis deepens as crowds in Serbia are stranded at border crossing with Hungary. Budapest has declared a state of emergency and some migrants are staging protests - they're refusing to eat or drink until they are allowed access to the country. Angela Merkel has admitted that Germany, Austria and Sweden cannot handle the situation on their own and has called for an emergency summit of EU leaders to resolve the crisis. The 麻豆社's Nick Thorpe reports from Budapest and we hear from an Austrian based haulier coming to terms with the impact on his cross-border business.

Greece returns to the headlines when its citizens head to the polls on Sunday. It's the fourth time in six years that an election has been held and the ruling Syriza party is currently neck-and-neck in opinion polls with the centre-right party New Democracy. Party leaders clashed in a televised debate over whether they'd form a coalition, raising fears that political instability could lead to more economic turmoil for the country. We speak to Professor Aristides Hazis from the University of Athens.

Facebook adds a dislike button - will it get the thumbs up? Plus we hear from the Frankfurt Motor Show and Lucy Kellaway tries to do her expenses.

Throughout the programme our guests are Brandon Webb, former Navy SEAL and CEO of Force12 Media in New York and Angela Mancini, Managing Director for Control Risks based in Singapore.

(Photo: Wire fence at the Hungarian border Credit: Getty)

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Wed 16 Sep 2015 00:06GMT

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