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PM urges EU nations to fund refugee camps around Syria

David Cameron has visited camps in Lebanon and Jordan to meet Syrian refugees who have fled their country's civil war.

The Prime Minister has called on other EU countries to "step up to the plate" and follow Britain's lead by funding refugee camps around Syria.

Mr Cameron said there was a "direct connection" between shortfalls in aid for camps in Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey and the influx of migrants into Europe.

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Scene outside train station like a 'refugee camp'

Thousands of migrants are starting to sleep around Budapest's main railway station tonight, after a day of waiting to enter it to board trains to Germany.

The migrants - from countries including Syria and Afghanistan - have no where else to sleep.

ITV News' Europe Editor James Mates is at the train station and has been tweeting from the scene.

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