"Hundreds of thousands landing on Europe's shores." "The beginning of the long road north." "Panorama joins them on a 1,300-mile journey from" "Greece to Austria." "Men, women and children, many fleeing the war in" "Syria." "Others are escaping poverty." "Where do you want to go?" "London." "All desperate for something better." "It is hell, that is why I am running away, hoping that I have a better life." "We witness heartbreak." "We will help you find your son, we will." "Extraordinary forbearance." "That is the border, and then you get to Macedonia." "Shokran, thank you." "Good luck." "And utter despair." "Europe is divided." "Some countries are offering sanctuary." "Others are slamming the door shut." "As Europe's politicians bicker, there seems to be no solution in sight." "And all the while, more people are coming." "Under cover of darkness, a tide of humanity, pushed by war, pulled by hope." "Over there, just for four miles away, is Turkey." "Here is Kos, in Greece, and this is one of the beaches we have been told refugees land on." "Hundreds of thousands have made it across the Mediterranean." "So far this year, really 3000 have died trying." "Life jackets litter this speech." "And over here, more life jackets." "Evidence of the flow of people." "And this?" "A kid's rubber ring." "People are crossing four miles of water wearing rubber rings." "Seven out of ten people arriving in Greece are from Syria." "This is what the refugees have to look forward to on Kos." "Under the walls of the castle, Little Damascus - a makeshift tent city." "Mohammed, his wife and two children crossed in a rubber boat from Turkey to Kos seven days ago." "But to them, the journey is worth the risk." "They fled to Turkey from Raqqa in northern Syria, where the so-called Islamic State has its stronghold." "What was it like in" "Raqqa living under ISIS?" "In Raqqa, they were also bombed by" "Bashar al-Assad's forces, the Syrian ruler whose family have held sway over the country for 45 years." "Like many Greek holiday islands, Kos is playing host to the world's strangest refugee camps." "I have been to lots of refugee camps around the world, and they are always grim in their own particular way." "And this is the most grimly surreal." "Tourists pass by, getting on with their holiday." "It is peculiar." "The Greek government has its own economic woes." "It pretty much leaves the new arrivals to fend for themselves." "Is it just about the money, though?" "Are they worried about giving them too warm a welcome?" "I guess in Greece, all over Europe, humanitarian assistance can be, they think, if you give something to the people, more people are going to come." "It is mostly left to tourists, and NGOs, like Medecins Sans Frontieres, to do what they can." "We are not used to working in this type of conditions." "Nothing it seems will stop them coming." "This video was shot by some of those who made it." "With the Europe insight, you could be forgiven for thinking they are on holiday." "Their transport, a rubber dinghy, all part of the people smuggler's package." "They exploit" "Syrians who have escaped the war to Turkey and who cannot travel to" "Europe legally because it isn't so hard to get visas." "This is a top of the range people smuggler." "We are told these things are hand glued on the other side of the water in Turkey." "Sometimes 50, 60, even 70 people are crammed in here for the crossing in the middle of the night." "And the cost per head?" "$1200. 107,000 people landed on the Greek islands this August alone." "If everyone paid the going rate, the smugglers would be pocketing more than $120 million in just one month." "Wait a second, sorry, sir." "Away!" "We saw this Turkish man three nights running on a beach where refugees often land." "What are YOU doing here, so?" "And why have you got binoculars?" "Are you sporting for the people smugglers?" "Later he told us he was on the lookout for abandoned rubber boats, so he could sell their outboards." "It did not seem a convincing explanation." "Through the dawn light, yet more of Europe's boat people." "These lads, who told us they were from Damascus, landed just around the Bay earlier this morning." "Where do you want to end up?" "They say they fled to avoid being drafted into Bashar al-Assad's army." "The electric outboard powering their dinghy failed." "So you rowed?" "Yes, of course." "The smugglers, they tell you they will put you in the boat and everything will be OK." "But they don't care." "The people who are working on this, they make millions." "Sobhi, his sister, Joumana and their children were exhausted from their crossing." "Their outboard packed up as well." "The waves were small, but water came in the boat and the children were screaming the whole time." "Here, and across Europe, the rule book is being ripped up." "Refugees should apply for asylum at the first EU country they arrive in." "But they don't want to stay here and getting the right paperwork to leave can take more than a week." "This is the scene outside Kos police station." "It has been like this, exactly the same, for weeks and weeks." "Hundreds of Syrian refugees, men, women and children, waiting in line to get the paperwork so they can get off the island." "Sobhi and the family are at the police station." "Leaving for them will be even more tricky." "He told us he panicked during the crossing." "Fearing the boat was sinking, he dumped a bag overboard containing their passports." "It's not uncommon for people to arrive in Europe without documents proving where they came from." "What are you looking for?" "I'm looking for my name to see if it is there or not." "Whether you have got registration?" "It is the same every morning." "Hundreds of people hoping to see their name posted on the side of this old van." "They will take us inside in order to give fingerprints and then wait, maybe until tomorrow or after tomorrow, to get our documents in order to have, so that we can buy a ticket and go to Athens." "Is your name there?" "Still not." "This is our eighth day." "All these people want us to move on." "But, at the police station, frustration at the delays has caused Tempest afraid." "At this crucial entry point into Europe, can a registration process run by overwhelmed police really tell us who is being let in?" "I asked the man with no passport what he thinks." "Some people in Britain are afraid that some of the people coming from Syria are secretly in" "Isis." "What would you say?" "Yeah, I would say that." "And I'm afraid of that, because some Isis men, or these terrorists, they will destroy the image of other people, hundreds of thousands of people." "And there will be conflicts, there will be, for sure, conflicts." "On Kos, like other Greek islands, Syrian refugees are being fast tracked." "And this is the slow lane." "Welcome to the hotel Captain Elias." "Many of these men are economic migrants." "They are at the back of the Cuba registration." "What's the problem, why can't they get like the Syrians?" "They do get processed, but they get processed slower." "A lot of them have been on the island for ten or 15 days." "A few weeks ago we had papers for non-Syrians are staying for more than 20 days on the island." "They were sent to the derelict hotel by the Greek authorities and it feels pretty much forgotten." "How long have you been here, in Kos?" "How many days?" "Five days." "Where do you want to go?" "London." "Vangelis and his team installed water and working toilets." "Locals give them food." "At the height of summer, how many people were there?" "More or less 1000." "Four days after filming, all of the migrants were evicted." "The men here were left to sleep in the fields and on the streets." "After seven days on Kos, the family from Raqqa have got their papers and paid for their ferry tickets." "They are leaving." "Mohammed packs up his tent, knowing he'll need it again." "They have a ferry in roughly one hour and they are working out what to dump and what to keep on their continuing journey to find somewhere they can call home." "Do you feel relieved you are going?" "Yes, very much." "The same life jackets the children were wearing on the crossing to Kos are put on for the journey to the Greek mainland." "It's a short walk to the harbour." "Hundreds join them." "The ferry is coming into port now, and there is a big queue." "It's going to be pretty packed on the ferry for Mohammed's family." "Greek police checked them through, one by one." "Since the war in Syria started four years ago, refugees have been trickling into Greece." "This summer, that trickle became a river." "In August, Germany announced it would open its doors to all Syrian asylum seekers and expected to take in 800,000 this year." "And that river became a flood." "Good luck." "Good luck, thank you." "It's time for me to say goodbye to" "Mohammed and his family." "Suddenly, people surged through the gates and make a run for the ferry." "So the fence is open and now chaos." "Everybody has been queueing politely." "And stop." "People are worried that the boats are going to go and they are going to miss it." "This is a kind of madness, a gold rush psychosis." "They are desperate not to miss out on Germany's author of sanctuary." "Mohammed and his family were part of the surge through the gate." "They make it." "But police make sure that this man doesn't." "He had forged Greek registration papers." "It is a common problem." "The Coast Guard behind me had a whole stack of fakes." "Look at this one, that is not a photograph, the stamp has been photocopied, it's not an original." "It's time for me to leave Kos and follow the refugee road." "It's a journey of 1300 miles through Greece, Macedonia, Serbia and" "Hungary." "The goal is to reach Austria, the first country in northern Europe where most people want to claim asylum." "First, a ferry from Kos to the Greek mainland." "It was comfortable, the floor was less so." "After a 12 hour journey, we arrive in Pireaus, Athens' port." "And so, it feels, does half of Syria." "These people have come from the" "Greek island of Lesbos, even more crowded than Kos." "Everybody races north." "Sobhi and the family have managed to get off Kos and filmed themselves joining the exodus." "Quickly, quickly, quickly!" "People are urged on across the Greek border into the former Yugoslav Republic of" "Macedonia." "Come!" "Come this way." "This had been a bottleneck, the littered field is evidence of the number of people that were stuck here." "A couple of days ago there were 5000 people here." "What has happened is that the local authorities in Greece have got their act together and what they are doing is moving refugees 50 at a time." "This is Greece." "They walk along the side of the railway and get to the other side, Macedonia." "It's a short walk to the border." "And still, they keep coming." "Good evening." "We are in Greece, or Skopje?" "You are in Greece now, that is the border and then you get to Macedonia." "OK, Shokran, thank you." "I've been through a lot, and still civilities of common humanity are returned." "It's impressive." "As night falls, we follow the people into Macedonia." "At the end of a dirt track, we discover this camp." "Hundreds of people wait outside the wire, guarded by police." "Slowly they are funnelled into a tent." "And respite." "I covered the walls in former Yugoslavia and I saw so many refugees then." "It's the same dam thing." "The anxiety, the fear." "What is going to happen to us?" "I thought that was history in Europe." "I was wrong." "Outside the tent, the scene feels like something out of a different age." "Excuse me, thank you." "Hundreds and hundreds of people." "And they are waiting to go on the next stage of their journey, north to the Macedonian and Serbian border." "The thing that is going to take them from this place is a train that is going to stop this temporary station behind me." "What is striking is the number of young men on the road." "Is it possible some of them are using the war in Syria to get a European passport?" "You haven't been in Syria for 13 years?" "Exactly, yes." "Where have you come from?" "Now?" "I came from" "Dubai." "Feras, an aerospace engineer, left Syria long before the war and Isis." "You flew from Dubai to Turkey, because this way you can get refugee status?" "Not really, I live in the United Arab Emirates, but I'm" "Syrian." "We get affected everywhere, because they are not giving us a" "Visa, a residence Visa, because we are Syrians." "He neither wants to fight for or against Assad, nor does he want to fight Isis." "To him, there is no side worth dying for." "Everybody is fighting for a different cause, for his tribe." "Literally, its tribes." "This guy is supporting, this guy is not supporting, this guy is Muslim, this guy is Christian, this guy is something like this." "It is just tribes." "Isis?" "Yes, they are a big problem." "We want to fight them." "But they are fighting each other, everybody is fighting everyone." "The" "Macedonian police get the crowd to form a queue and people are on the move again." "It is a six-hour trip to the Serbian border and the train, especially laid on by the Macedonian authorities, is packed." "Morning in Serbia." "But the long road from Syria gets no less dark." "Another country, another camp." "Sobhi is here, but his family is nowhere to be seen." "And there is a confession." "Joumana, the woman he said was his sister, is not his sister after all." "Why did you tell us she was your sister?" "You know, she is a woman, alone with four children." "When she has a man, she didn't want to say this is my husband, I told her, OK, I am your brother and we will help each other on the way." "He says they met on the smuggler's boat." "I told you I threw my bag with documents." "It was her documents and my documents, and my bag and her money, also." "It was stupid from her not to put her money in her pocket." "But it was your fault for throwing the documents in the sea?" "I was sorry for her, because of the children." "I told myself I must help are as good as I can." "Sobhi said they fell out over money and that the Macedonian border with Serbia, Joumana and the children vanished among the crowds." "Do you feel guilty about splitting with" "Joumana and the kids?" "No, not any more." "I've done my best, and my money is not enough to take her." "I would like to have taken her if I had more money." "That was too much stress for me." "Too much." "It also turns out that Sobhi has been living and working in Lebanon." "He said he fled their two years ago to escape the war." "Are you Syrian?" "I am Syrian." "Some people will say that you are not really a refugee." "What can I say?" "If I am not a refugee, I do not know how many hundred thousand are trying to go to..." "At least 80%, they are refugees." "They are." "You as well?" "Yes." "The people must walk six miles to the first town." "It is the long march between one country's exit point and the next country's reception centre which grinds people down." "And then there is the queues." "This is the queue for registration." "Remember, the refugees had to get registered in Greece, then in" "Macedonia, and in Serbia, and yes, they are going to get registered here, too." "This is chaos in slow motion." "Everybody go inside to rest!" "Meet number 101, and his father, 100." "Abdul carried his son" "Adnan from the border." "They then queued for six hours to get their registration numbers." "After their home south of Aleppo was destroyed, Abdul, a teacher, decided it was time to go." "The family crossed into Turkey 2.5 years ago." "This is not good here." "Is it possible you might have been better staying in Turkey?" "We heard this complaint many times." "With almost 2 million Syrians in Turkey, getting a place in school is difficult." "And most Syrians are not allowed to work." "Then I meet another little boy." "Azam is also injured, but his wounds are far more recent." "The men carrying him says that he was run over in Macedonia." "Azam's mother is in" "Turkey, so where is dad?" "They are travelling in a group of 13 men." "It looks like he has broken his jaw." "Is he all right?" "They told us Azam had been seen by doctors in Macedonia." "So he hasn't broken it?" "One more child on a journey." "He is too young to understand." "With yet another registration number, these people are now free to move on." "If they don't leave Serbia in three days, they have to apply for asylum here." "First stop, the capital, Belgrade." "Five hours by bus." "The change of season makes life on the long road yet more bleak." "A park by Belgrade bus station." "Amongst the misery, we come across Azam again." "Clearly in pain, and his wound looks infected." "He is being examined by a doctor in a makeshift clinic, and he is alone." "It is all right, some, it is OK." "We will clean the wound and then we will send him in the ambulance to the hospital." "Where is his father?" "He was here a minute ago." "Our interpreter has a quiet word with the boy, and something does not add up." "The boy has told us he is not with his father." "The man who told us he was his father yesterday may have been lying." "His father is still in Turkey." "So he is going to go to hospital on his own." "It seems like he might possibly be travelling with uncles and so forth, and for the moment, his uncle has gone." "He is travelling on his own." "Finally, the man we had been told was Azam's father, but the little boy says is his uncle, returns." "Our translator is worried and questions the man." "Whoever the man is, father or uncle, he is not keen to wait for" "Azam to be taken to hospital." "He would rather press on to northern" "Europe." "But they do get in the ambulance, so" "Azam can be taken to hospital." "Later in the park, we get an update on his condition." "The latest news is that he has a fracture of his jaw." "Is he going to be OK?" "I hope so." "He will stay in hospital for several days, I am sure." "That did not happen." "When we contacted the hospital, they told us, before he could get the treatment he urgently needed, Azam and the man had vanished." "Dr Kosic lived through the Yugoslav civil war in the 1990s." "She did not think she would ever see refugees on the streets of Serbia again." "I am sad, I cannot believe that this can happen in the 21st century, in central Europe." "Inside the station, the ticketing halls and corridors offer refuge." "Here, we bump into an old friend." "Sobhi is now travelling with a woman in a wheelchair." "Stay in touch." "Yes, good luck." "OK, we have a woman, we must..." "Six people!" "His" "English is useful to his fellow travellers." "But as a single man, are they useful to him?" "Travelling with the vulnerable, we noticed, gets you to the front of the queue." "So, he is still heading north." "So are we." "Different bus, same direction, going towards the border with Hungary." "Time to catch up on some sleep." "Goufran, Jihad and their four-year-old twins fled from just outside Aleppo three weeks ago." "The war has changed the boys." "But what finally pushed them to leave?" "Jihad was arrested by Islamist militants." "The crime?" "Letting his wife drive the family car." "It was Jihad who was punished." "He spent the night in a tiny cell with nine other men." "Jihad and Goufran were forced to sell the car, and they escaped." "Host people want to go to Germany." "They don't." "Where do you want to end up?" "That, ladies and gentlemen, is 10p, with the Queen's head." "Yes." "It is not worth much, but it has got the" "Queen on it." "They have never seen a coin like it." "They want to go to a country where a woman can be head of state." "The bus drops them six miles from the Hungarian border." "There is no letup from the rain." "Goufran makes the boys ponchos out of beanbags." "They have so little, we leave them with a tent and sleeping bags." "They spend the night camping in the rain." "From there, the people have to make their own way to the border." "Four or five hours's walk along the tracks." "They are now just a few minutes from Hungary." "Some hide their faces." "Perhaps worried about their families back home, or maybe to hide where they come from." "You are from Damascus, Aleppo, where?" "You are Iraqi?" "From where?" "And then his friend whispers something." "The guy on the right says he is from Syria." "The guy in the middle, he says Iraq." "And the guy interrupted and said Aleppo." "So, who knows?" "But certainly, they could not make their mind up." "Once they cross the border into Hungary, they will be back in the European Union." "Gateway to the wealthy northern countries where most want to apply for asylum." "But it is a race against time." "You can see the refugees walking along the tracks, heading north." "And here is the problem." "That is the brand-new Hungarian border fence." "And the Hungarians are threatening to close the border." "Hungary says it has a legal duty to protect" "Europe's borders, and in three days' time they are going to close the gap in the fence." "But for now, the railway tracks lead them to their first encounter with the Hungarian authorities." "On this day alone, several thousand people are processed through this checkpoint." "To begin with, everything is calm and orderly." "Time for a bite to eat and something to drink!" "Now, we are seeing more different nationalities." "But most say they are Sirion." "Where are you from?" "Syria, Syria..." "As the light starts to fade and more people tumble into Hungary, the pressure builds to breaking point." "We sense a different attitude here to these people, who are mostly Muslim." "The Hungarian Prime Minister has said it does not want a large number of Muslims staying in his country." "This is a craziness." "There is only one bus here, people are desperate to get on it, and they can't." "That word yet again." "Chaos." "The Hungarian police are determined to maintain order, letting people on one by one." "But see what happens to this little girl." "This woman, we think her mother, is pleading with the police." "She is on the bus, but the little girl isn't." "It is left to the people in the crowd to reunite mother and child." "And all this, to move people barely a mile." "Word has spread about delays and the Hungarian police." "We meet people doing everything they can to avoid them, like this family from" "Aleppo." "Why don't you want to stay in the camp, the Hungarian camp?" "Who has told you you waste time in the Hungarian camp?" "How did you find that out?" "This drone footage shows just how desperate some people are to avoid Hungarian officials." "They have heard they will be fingerprinted, detained and even sent back." "And so, they run." "Those who do get on the government buses, a short trip and then, standstill." "So, there's a line of buses, full of refugees, they are all waiting to get into this place, whatever the official term, it doesn't look like a holiday camp." "Thanks to the Hungarian government, for these people, the phrase welcome to Hungary is written in razor wire." "Hello, how are you?" "This is where the refugees and migrants are processed." "Where are you from?" "Afghanistan." "What is it like in the tent, is it OK?" "No, it's not good." "Why did you leave Afghanistan?" "We can't live in Afghanistan, how can we live?" "Where do you want to end up?" "Germany." "Germany, Germany, Germany?" "Yes, we are a family, going to Germany." "Is there a problem?" "I can't talk to them?" "No talk?" "OK." "I'm told I can't talk to you." "So I must wish you well and say goodbye." "We've got to go." "OK, thanks." "Goodbye." "Even without words, you can get a feeling for what life is like behind the wire." "Then we spotted the family that wants to come to Britain." "Goufran, Jihad and the twins." "How are you?" "Did you sleep well last night?" "Good." "Good luck." "A wave from one of the boys and then they are gone." "A beautiful morning, late summer, Central Europe." "Everything is as you would expect at Budapest train station." "Until you check out the floor below." "For weeks now, wave upon wave of people have flowed through here." "At times, it's been overwhelming." "The Hungarians are running extra trains to take people 100 miles or so north to the Austrian border." "Europe has witnessed the mass movement of refugees throughout history." "In the 21st century, they get a bar code." "Mustapha shows me his." "What is this?" "What does it feel like, wearing a bar code?" "Mustapha comes from Kobani, a Syrian town turned to rubble by battles with Isis." "This was his home." "And this is what is left of his van." "Is this you?" "That is you in your car?" "Mustapha says he would go back to Syria if it was safe." "When do you think that is going to happen?" "Exhaustion is etched on peoples faces." "Most have been on the go Fifa weeks, maybe more." "For Mustapha's little boy, this part of the journey is great fun." "But for Fakhria," "Mustapha's aunt, it is no fun at all." "What has the journey been like for you?" "She was travelling with her son," "Mahmoud, and close family." "She fell ill and was taken to hospital in" "Hungary and they became separated." "Her son had to go on without her." "She hasn't seen Mahmoud since." "She stumbled across her nephew," "Mustapha, by chance." "But she fears she will never see her son again." "The bar code is no use to her." "We'll help you find your son." "We will." "It won't be easy, but we will find him." "We will help you find him," "I promise you." "Two miles short of the Austrian border, they are ordered off the train." "The police checks to make sure they do." "And then, they must wait." "All the people we meet on the road complain about how they were treated in Hungary." "How are you?" "How are you?" "It's the family with the twins who dream of coming to Britain." "I ask what Hungary was like for them." "They have to press on." "They are getting closer to the goal." "By pure chance, you couldn't make it up." "Where are you going now?" "We are going to Austria." "And then?" "Germany." "Knowing what you know now, would you have done this journey?" "Yes." "Why?" "It's a very bad, but it is better than hell." "It is hard to predict what the future might hold for these people." "But I have a feeling that Sobhi will be all right." "It is 1300 miles from the Greek islands to the Austrian border." "For some, the last stretch is the toughest." "It is over 80 degrees." "The Austrian police escort them every step of the way." "But there is no help for the very young or the lame." "Or the old." "Austria is now very close." "But for" "Mustapha's son, this is no longer any kind of fun." "And for Fakhria, it is all too much." "So you know the story, she has been split up from her son." "She appears in grave trouble." "The paramedics called her with water, but it's not enough. -- oil." "For a moment, I fear she is dying in front of my eyes." "Then we find out what is wrong." "She's diabetic, she needs to go back to Hungary for medical treatment." "But, at the moment, Hungary is where she does not want to be." "She wants to be with the rest of the family, going that way." "The Hungarian medics give Fakhria some sugar." "It brings her around." "She is so absolutely determined to stay with the family and find her son that she summons the strength to walk the final steps." "Welcome to Austria." "The mood here is markedly different." "In two words, more human." "Now that she has crossed the border," "Fakhria can finally allow herself to rest." "And be looked after." "For her," "Austria is the beginning of the end of the long road." "But for others, behind, and already difficult journey is becoming harder." "We are back at the frontier between Serbia and Hungary, on the night the border closes to them." "Weight, nobody will get through here, OK?" "Please." "I know." "The problem is, hundreds of refugees are still streaming this way." "For tonight at least, this is the end of the road." "You can't stop this flow of humanity for long." "Over the coming days, they find other ways to push north." "Fakhria is one of those that has made it and her story is less bleak." "With a little help from my posts on social media, this." "At Vienna station she and her son are reunited." "Germany now says it expects to receive 1 million refugees this year and wants other countries to do more." "But there is disagreement." "Europe is deeply divided." "Meanwhile, the war in Syria continues." "As long as it does, there is no end in sight to the long road."