Hungary rushes to finish migrant-stopping fence

Hungary is rushing to erect a fence along its southern border to block migrants - several thousand every night - from entering the country and from there the European Union.

"This needs to be finished today," an exhausted police officer said as rain lashed down, pointing to a 400-meter-long stretch of the fence.

"Starting September 15, every person who crosses the fence will be imprisoned," he said, his face hollowed with fatigue in the fog and cold of the early morning.