Thai-Cambodian border clashes continue
Newshour
BBC
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
After more clashes on the Thai-Cambodian border, we ask a Cambodian official whether the dispute will escalate.
Also in the programme: four months ahead of the elections in Hungary, why has child protection become such a key issue? And as Israel plans to build a new road and barrier in the occupied West Bank, we hear from the head of the UN’s Human Rights Office in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
(IMAGE: A handout photo made available by Agence Kampuchea Presse (AKP) shows a bridge destroyed by Thai F-16 fighter jets in Pursat Province, Cambodia, 13 December 2025 / CREDIT: Handout /EPA/Shutterstock)
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:08.9 | Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service, coming live from London. |
| 0:14.6 | This is Owen Bennett Jones, and coming up, but first, there have been further hostilities along Thailand and Cambodia's disputed border. |
| 0:23.3 | Just hours after President Trump said the two countries had agreed to stop fighting. |
| 0:28.1 | The border dispute there has existed for decades. And there were clashes in July this year as well, |
| 0:33.8 | which led to a ceasefire in October. But this latest round of fighting just started on Monday. |
| 0:39.6 | And the violence has forced hundreds of thousands of people on both sides of the border to flee their homes. |
| 0:44.7 | Thai farmers, Jirassan and Nuttai, are two of them. |
| 0:52.4 | I want the fighting to stop. Cambodia should halt its military movements and sign a new agreement, |
| 0:58.7 | one that guarantees no more invasions or attacks on the Thai side, |
| 1:02.9 | and that they will finally clear all unexploded ordinance along the border. |
| 1:10.2 | At first, the shelling stopped after a short time, but we still had to stay at the |
| 1:13.8 | shelter for about 15 days because there were unexploded bombs that had to be cleared. Now the |
| 1:18.6 | firing is happening every day and people are wondering, will we have to stay like this for months, |
| 1:23.1 | even years? It's really disheartening. So those two are in Thailand. Across the border in Cambodia, |
| 1:29.2 | 62-year-old Marquis is living in a makeshift tent after being forced from her home. |
| 1:37.8 | I can't sleep much because I'm still worried about what I left behind at my house at the border. |
| 1:43.2 | I can't sleep because I don't have |
| 1:44.7 | enough mosquito nets for all my family members. I only brought some stuff like blankets for the |
| 1:49.6 | cold weather and two mats to sleep on. Many young people from my village worked in Thailand |
| 1:57.8 | and they think Thais and Cambodians are like brothers, sisters. |
| 2:01.5 | They have no problem with each other. They love each other. The only issue is between the two |
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