Today’s focus: European countries, including Germany, stregthen security at their borders, wildfires destroy hundreds of buildings in California, Egyptian security forces accidentally kill tourists, and a Japanese volcano erupts in the “Ring of Fire”.

Dozens of helmet-wearing officers, backed by soldiers and police on horseback, stood on a railway track near Roszke where tens of thousands of migrants have been making their way into the European Union in recent weeks.

The border controls effectively suspend Germany’s participation in the bloc’s cherished borderless Schengen system, one of the cornerstones of the European integration project since it was created in the 1990s.

“If Germany carries out border controls, Austria must put strengthened border controls in place“, Austrian Vice Chancellor Mitterlehner said, according to Reuters.

He said the aim of the checks is “to limit the current inflows to Germany and to return to orderly procedures when people enter the country“.

Police said around 13,000 migrants arrived in the southern city of Munich alone on Saturday, followed by another 3,000 on Sunday morning.

“It’s not so much the number of refugees as the speed at which they’re arriving that’s making it so hard for the states and the municipalities to cope,” he said. “Given the numbers from yesterday, it is very clear that we have reached the upper limit of our capacity”, said a police spokesman.

Governments have descended into sparring over responsibility for the new arrivals, with neighbours accusing each other of failing to register migrants and shunting them on to the next destination.

All trains between Germany and Austria were suspended for 12 hours.

The worldwide Organisation for Migration said Friday that more than 430,000 people have crossed the Mediterranean to Europe this year, with 2,748 dying en route or going missing.

A day before deeply divided European Union ministers tackle the migrant crisis, the United Nations refugee agency also called on every member state to take in a share of asylum-seekers under a Brussels plan which some countries are fiercely resisting.

B92’s reporter in Presevo said smaller groups of refugees were moving on quickly as soon as they receive their papers.

But last night Mr de Maiziere said: “Germany has shown great willingness to help, but this willingness should not be overstretched”.

As NPR’s Lauren Frayer reports from Budapest, new laws in Hungary take effect on Tuesday “that will make it illegal for anyone to cross Hungary’s borders without a visa – even asylum seekers“.

Authorities are on high alert after the decomposing remains of 71 people believed to be migrants were found on an eastern Austrian highway last month.