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For me this is where it all started, right place at the right time some would say, I have a small photographic tour here in Budapest, Keleti train station was always one of the places I would love to take students as there always would be something to see.

Many of the migrants currently trying to reach Germany via Hungary probably arrived first in Greece. But they left the EU to travel through Macedonia and Serbia before crossing back into Hungary. Now the Hungarian government says it is trying to apply EU law, but it clearly doesn't want them to stay.

Night and day I would spend my time at Keleti train station, Fascinated by the sudden change of watching this train station turn into an open air refugee camp.

Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto told reporters on Tuesday that Hungary would now register all migrants and send those it considered to be economic migrants back to the state from which they entered the country.

The building the refugee people are taking cover under is an old head quarter for the Hungarian secret police, Know by all as AVO, ruthless and feared during the communist yeara.

It was not easy, as a refugee camp took shocking shape in the heart of a European capital. Hundreds were camping out on a metro underpass and a small plaza in front of its entrance. Among them were many children, cut and bruised, hungry and frightened.

Koeztarsasag Square, Muslim men praying whilst locals walk on by.

Keleti train station become one of the largest turning points as the refugee numbers increased on a daily bases bringing the number of refugees to 14,000, for the Government of Hungary it became a game that they where never going to win especially when freedom is involved.

After days of squalid limbo, the refugees of Keleti station square, armed only with desperation, forced the hand of a government they saw as jailers.

For many others who where still coming into Budapest via Serbia it became more of a struggle, not knowing which way to go, watching trains come and go, being told that they have to stay here in the train station without being given a reason as to what they are meant to do next.

As conditions deteriorated, Keleti became a symbol of the migration crisis, a shameful rebuke to Europe’s confused and cruel handling of the thousands of people flooding across the borders. One woman even gave birth there, and nursed her newborn on the concrete tiles.

We want to go to Germany they chanted, we are tied of being here, we do not wait to stay here in Hungary we just want to go to Germany. The following day a group of about 1500 people started walking towards the Austrian border as they grow tied of being told no by the Hungarian Goverment.

Despairing of ever escaping the increasingly squalid station, barred from boarding trains and buses without papers, they simply set off to Austria on foot, a 125-mile journey that seemed better than staying put.

Depressed and exhausted people wait patently for trains to Austria.

When all international travel was cancelled a day later, many had spent the last of their meagre funds on now useless tickets and had no choice but to wait in a country that made clearwhere they were not officially welcome.

Syrian man and his son share a moment of affection with each other.

Many were shamed and horrified by the suffering on their doorstep, handing They flocked to hand out food, toys, blankets and clothes they bought or collected themselves. Some donned rubber gloves to clean up the mounting piles of rubbish and at night a projector and screen distracted children briefly with cartoons.

For hours the waiting continued as the trains would come every two hours, and as the trains where sometimes booked out by people traveling and on holidays it would mean that the refugee people would need to wait much longer.

Prime minister Viktor Orbán insisted Europe was in the grip of madness over immigration, and claimed he was defending European Christianity against a Muslim influx. Meanwhile his government told Hungarian TV not to broadcast images of children among the travellers.

David the Hungarian police officer byes a train ticket for a refugee that had been waiting for hours to board a train. To me it was humbling to see this officer do what he did, this picture allows me to understand even more to never judge.

But while the government was hostile, not all Hungarians felt the same.

The mad rush started the moment the Hungarian police allowed refugees to board the train heading to Austria.

But then he encouraged a race to Budapest by opening up trains travelling to Germany to any passenger, soon after chancellor Angela Merkel said that any Syrian who reached her country would get asylum.

Running to get on the last train to Austria, everybody stumbling and pushing to find more room on the train, tempers flaring dignity lost, tied, hungry, looking to get to the place they can call home.

Waiting for the train to move out of Keleti train station, some that exhausted that they couldn't stay awake any longer.

Train starts moving, hands waving in a mist of smiles, to the refugees moving means freedom.

Unable to get on trains, people take to the under ground at Keleti train station to get sleep.

The majority of people arriving in Italy and Greece especially have been from countries mired in war (Syrian civil war (2011–present), War in Afghanistan (2001–present), Iraqi conflict (2003–present)) or which otherwise are considered to be 'refugee-producing' and for whom international protection is needed.

Refugee men debate with interpreters on what is being done, we just wont to move on towards Germany that's all we want to do they chanted.

The crowds had grown for days as Hungary became entangled in the contradiction between its own anti-immigrant rhetoric and a desire to cut refugee numbers in Hungary by letting people without papers move on.

Hungarian Riot police help escort refugee people onto buses that are head to Austria.

Out of know where hundreds of buses pulled up at Keleti train station, refugee people being woken up and told to get on the buses because Keleti is now no longer a refugee camp.

Hungarian shows his feelings towards refugees as they make there way out of the city center by bus.

The answer they where waiting for as they all yelled praise be to God.

Now after being in the bus for hours most have fallen asleep, one man remains awake to keep watch on what direction they are going.

NATO's four-star General in the United States Air Force commander in Europe stated on the issue of indiscriminate weapons used by Bashar al-Assad, and the non-precision use of weapons by the Russian forces – are the reason which cause refugees to be on the move. Gen. Philip Breedlove accused Russia and the Assad regime of "deliberately weaponizing migration in an attempt to overwhelm European structures and break European resolve".

Still sleepy the bus comes to a stand still and every body is told to get off.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad blamed Europe and the United States for the migrant crisis, saying most of the refugees are fleeing the "terrorism" that he accuses the West of fomenting by supporting elements of the Syrian opposition. Meanwhile, the Syrian government announced increased military conscription, and simultaneously made it easier for Syrians to obtain passports, leading Middle East policy experts to speculate that he was implementing a policy to encourage opponents of his regime to "leave the country”.

Hungarian/Austrian border, refugees make there way across the border line happy and relieved to make it to what they fell is freedom.

However, a smaller proportion is from elsewhere, and for many of these individuals, the term 'migrant' would be correct." Immigrants (a person from a non-EU country establishing his or her usual residence in the territory of an EU country for a period that is, or is expected to be, at least twelve months) include asylum seekers and economic migrants. Some research suggested that record population growth in Africa and the Middle East was one of the drivers of the crisis, and it was also suggested that global warming could increase migratory pressures in the future. In rare cases, immigration has been a cover for Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants disguised as refugees or migrants.

Young refugee boy makes his way into Austria from Hungary. This saw the end of the refugees in Hungary's at Keleti train station.

Most of the migrants came from regions south and east of Europe, including the Greater Middle East and Africa. Of the migrants arriving in Europe by sea in 2015, 58% were males over 18 years of age (77% of adults), 17% were females over 18 (22% of adults) and the remaining 25% were under 18. By religious affiliation, the majority of entrants were Muslim, with a small component of non-Muslim minorities (including Yazidis, Assyrians and Mandeans). The number of deaths at sea rose to record levels in April 2015, when five boats carrying almost 2,000 migrants to Europe sank in the Mediterranean Sea, with a combined death toll estimated at more than 1,200 people. The shipwrecks took place in a context of ongoing conflicts and refugee crises in several Asian and African countries, which increased the total number of forcibly displaced people worldwide at the end of 2014 to almost 60 million, the highest level since World War II.