Angry migrants march on Budapest

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Hundreds of angry and frustrated asylum-seekers broke through police lines near Hungary’s southern border with Serbia and began marching north toward Budapest as European leaders debated how to share responsibility to ease the crisis&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Germany has promised to spend billions of euros in extra aid for those already there and those yet to arrive&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>France weighed whether increased air strikes against so-called Islamic State militants would help to stem the flow of those fleeing Syria&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But the Hungarian prime minister scoffed at a proposed quota system for refugees in the 28-member European Union&comma; saying it wouldn’t work unless Europe first secured its borders&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Hungary’s inability to control the flow of people across its southern border with Serbia was on graphic display today&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Crowds who had grown tired of waiting for buses at Hungary’s first migrant holding centre near the border village of Roszke tore down police tape&comma; advanced down a country road and walked around rows of police trying to block them&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Officers offered no resistance as about half of the 500-strong crowd reached the M5 highway that connects Serbia and Hungary&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>They headed north along the shoulder&comma; raising their arms and chanting &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Germany&excl; Germany&excl;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;Police walked beside them as a lone helicopter monitored the marchers’ progress north as darkness fell&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The move mirrored Friday’s surge of people from Budapest toward Austria in a traffic-snarling tactic that forced Hungary to concede defeat and bus thousands to the Austrian border&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Germany’s rail company said it had carried 22&comma;000 asylum- seekers over the weekend on more than 100 trains&comma; a number boosted by the fact that Hungary again has dropped visa checks on foreigners buying train tickets for the wealthier countries to the west&comma; particularly Germany&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Following an overnight Cabinet meeting&comma; Germany said it would set aside 6 billion euros to boost aid for asylum-seekers and hire 3&comma;000 more federal police&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It also planned to make it easier to build refugee housing and for non-German speakers to hold jobs&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>German Chancellor Angela Merkel reflected on what she called &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;a moving&comma; in some parts breathtaking weekend behind us&comma;” when Austria and Germany threw open their borders for thousands of asylum-seekers trying to get out of Hungary&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>She said all EU countries could help accommodate the families fleeing war and poverty&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Britain and France&comma; seen as less generous than Germany so far&comma; overcame reluctance and stepped up their commitments&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The UK will resettle up to 20&comma;000 Syrians from camps in Turkey&comma; Jordan and Syria over the next five years&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>French President Francois Hollande said his country would take in 24&comma;000 refugees over the next two years&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>To relieve the burden on Germany&comma; he told Merkel that France would take in 1&comma;000 of the migrants who have just arrived from Hungary&period; Most say they are fleeing the four-year-old civil war in Syria&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Saying France has to target &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;the causes of these horrors&comma;” Hollande announced possible airstrikes against Islamic State targets in Syria&comma; an idea he previously had resisted&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;France will send reconnaissance flights over Syria starting tomorrow&comma; he said&comma; and &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;we will be ready to strike&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed5dae654ee">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; 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