Hello and welcome to NewsHour live from the BBC World Service in London.

I'm Rebecca Kesbby.

Coming up today, the self-proclaimed baron who set up a fake embassy in India.

But let's start with the news that many thousands of civilians in the border area between Thailand and Cambodia are

being evacuated and fleeing as exchanges of artillery fire between the two countries

continue into a second day. The long, largely forested border region has been the scene of

historic tensions for decades. But clashes in the past few days are fuelling fears of

escalation and possibly a new conflict. Each side is blaming the other for starting the deadly

strikes on Thursday. The Thai army accused Cambodia of firing rockets into civilian areas in four

separate provinces, which triggered their retaliation, they say,

with F-16 fighter jets to strike Cambodia.

We'll hear from our correspondent on the Thai side of the border in just a moment.

First, though, let's hear from the Cambodian journalist Narin Sun,

who's near Samrung City in northern Cambodia.

And we did suspend an earlier interview on safety grounds with him as he could hear gunfire

close by. We did manage to catch up with him later.

20 minutes ago, I hear the gunshots over my hotel and I need to move a little bit outside.

We are talking now at some place that I think it's safe.

It's around 50 or 60 kilometers from the place where Thailand and Cambodia had changed firing.

It has been reported and I also witnessed some shots from some artillery firing from Cambodia, firing back to Thailand.

And it was told that Thailand also fly drone into Cambodia

and Cambodia troops also fight back the drone.

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