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A snapshot of the European migration crisis in one day

As Europe experiences a rise in the numbers of migrants, 5 live's presenters travel across the continent to give a snapshot of how the situation is affecting the people living there - and those moving there.

This family just arrived in Munich from Raqqa in Syria, a city controlled by Islamic State militants

Syrian woman: 'I don't want my people to leave my country'

A former Syrian resident was speaking at an anti-migrant demonstration in Belgrade.

Not everyone agrees with the migrants coming to Europe.

A Syrian woman, who has herself left Syria to live with her husband in Belgium, criticised refugees from her homeland for "giving up" by leaving.

Speaking at an anti-migrant demonstration in Belgrade, she said: "I don’t want people to leave my country like a football team, when it is losing to stop supporting it".

In response to the sharp rise in the number of migrants trying to enter Hungary, Hungarian authorities have built a four-metre (13ft) fence stretching the 175km (109-mile) Hungary-Serbian border. But that hasn't stopped people trying.

Pictured left: Migrants and refugees walk on train tracks along the Serbian / Hungary border. Pictured right: Some things left behind.

Migrants and refugees have received a welcome in Germany, however. This refugee processing centre gives people the opportunity to play football, in order to "forget their troubles".

Rüdi Heid from Buntkicktgut says: "They arrive and get a football friendship welcome. They get very easily friends."

Refugee centre: Football helps people 'forget troubles'

RĂ¼di Heid from Buntkicktgut says playing football helps refugees make friends.

Five-year-old Miriam from Syria holds her doll Daya. Photo taken at Munich train station, as she arrived with her parents.

This is Istally from Mosul, Iraq. In his hand he has the piece of paper with his uncle in Germany's address so he can be reunited with him.

Istally was a computer science student in Mosul but he had to leave everything behind, including papers that prove his study history and record.

He said "all is lost, it's like I never went to school."

This is Ahmed originally from Aleppo, Syria. His prize possession is his bag, which he's had to sew up 6 times over the past weeks.

The cost

For many of the refugees arriving in Europe, there have been costs along the way.

This mother left her two eldest children in Syria after a bomb attack. She believes both are dead.

Speaking to 5 live's Rachel Burden in Bodrum shortly after giving birth, she said her hopes for the future were to be able to live in a home with her children and "be happy."

Migration crisis: Mother fears two eldest children are dead

This mum left her eldest children in Syria after a bomb attack, she thinks both are dead.

On Bodrum beach: a shrine to Aylan Kurdi. The image of the three-year-old's body washed up on the beach sparked an international outcry over the human cost of the crisis