Thailand and Cambodia agree ceasefire
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.2 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Thailand and Cambodia have agreed to an immediate ceasefire, ending weeks of deadly border clashes. It paves the way for prisoner exchanges and for a million displaced civilians to return to their homes. Also: President Trump claims US strikes "decimated" IS targets in Nigeria; the latest on Russia-Ukraine peace talks; Myanmar lifts a curfew after four years; China's high-speed railway races to a new milestone; the Iranian actress, Taraneh Alidoosti, speaks out against women's oppression; how TV adverts fight - and reinforce - stereotypes; an elusive wild cat is rediscovered in Thailand; and we meet the Slovenian ski jumpers heading to the Winter Olympics.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Global News Podcasts. |
| 0:05.7 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:11.5 | I'm Alex Ritson and in the early hours of Saturday the 27th of December, these are our main stories. |
| 0:19.1 | Thailand and Cambodia agree to an immediate ceasefire in their deadly border dispute. |
| 0:24.9 | President Trump has claimed that the Christmas Day strikes he ordered on Islamic State militants in northwest Nigeria decimated their camps. |
| 0:33.0 | Meanwhile, the US leader also says he believes his upcoming meeting with Ukraine's President Zelensky |
| 0:38.6 | could be productive, but warned that Keeve would get nothing until he approved it. |
| 0:45.6 | Also in this podcast. |
| 0:48.2 | I'm against hijab. |
| 0:49.4 | I have always been, especially compulsory hijab. |
| 0:52.3 | But I never saw myself as an activist. How could you remain silent |
| 0:55.8 | after Masa Amini's death? Top Iranian actress Tarana Ali Dostri tells the BBC she won't wear a |
| 1:02.7 | hijab on screen ever again. Thailand and Cambodia have agreed to an immediate ceasefire three weeks after their long-running cross-border dispute fled up again. |
| 1:15.7 | More than 40 people have died and around a million civilians have been displaced. |
| 1:20.4 | The fatalities on the Thai side were mainly soldiers, while in Cambodia they were mostly civilians. |
| 1:26.0 | Phnom Penh hasn't officially said that any of its soldiers were killed. |
| 1:30.2 | A joint statement has been signed by the country's defence ministers. |
| 1:33.9 | The ceasefire is meant to have taken effect around now. |
| 1:36.9 | Shortly before we recorded this podcast, |
| 1:39.2 | I spoke to the BBC Thai services Panisa Imoka in Bangkok. |
| 1:44.4 | So at the moment, after 20 days of the news routes of confrontation between Thailand and Cambodia, |
| 1:50.6 | both sides agree to stay exactly where they are. |
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