A spokesperson for the Hungarian government says an armed mob is trying to break into the country.

It comes as European Union interior ministers are gathering in Brussels for two days of talks about the migration crisis.

They will try to decide where to relocate thousands of people arriving in Hungary, Greece and Italy. Member states remain divided over a solution.

Hungary has been facing international outcry over the treatment of migrants after clashes broke out on its border with Serbia.

Police fired tear gas after hundreds of migrants broke through a razor wire fence last week.

"Normal use of force is being authorised for the army", spokesman Zoltan Kovacs told Newstalk Lunchtime, in response to the refugee crisis.

"Wouldn't you accept that it's completely impossible and unacceptable that people - however desperate they are - would like to break into a country's territory without permission, attack police and basically trying to break the Hungarian border".

"That's completely unacceptable that people, even genuine refugees, however desperate they are, would like to come to the territory of a given state without permission in a disorderly manner - as a matter of fact as an armed mob".

It was put to him that many of those seeking to enter Hungary are unarmed civilians, to which Mr Kovacs replied: "I'm afraid that's another point we have to make here - you are not seeing the proper pictures".

Asked what they were armed with, he replied: "Sticks and stones, and burning tires".

Asked if he was concerned how Hungary was being perceived around the world of how the country was dealing with refugees and migrants, he says: "I think it would be more important to think about what kind of image that is sending about people, who are trying to break into the European Union at all costs".

"What I see here is a serious, serious one-sidedness on behalf of the European and international media" he added.

Listen to his full interview below: