Trump oversees Cambodia and Thailand deal
Newshour
BBC
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
US President Donald Trump has overseen the signing of an agreement between Thailand and Cambodia to normalise relations after their short border conflict earlier this year. We'll hear from our Southeast Asia correspondent Jonathan Head who is in Kuala Lumpur.
Also in the programme: Police in France have detained at least one man in connection with the theft of millions of dollars of jewels from the Louvre museum; and voting has begun in Argentina in midterm elections that are being seen as a de facto referendum on the president Javier Milei.
(Picture: U.S. President Donald Trump applauds as Thailand's Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul and Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Manet hold up a ceasefire deal in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on October 26, 2025. Credit: REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein)
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:10.0 | Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:14.4 | We're coming to you live from London. I'm Leis Doucette. |
| 0:17.7 | In just a few minutes, we'll bring you an update on that famous Louvre robbery, but first. |
| 0:30.9 | President Trump is on the road again. He's just landed in the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur, |
| 0:36.5 | even doing a little dance straight |
| 0:37.9 | off the plane after his very long haul flight. |
| 0:41.6 | His week-long Southeast Asia tour will also take him to Japan and South Korea, where he has |
| 0:46.9 | expected to meet the Chinese leader Xi Jinping. |
| 0:50.5 | He's only saying a day at the three-day summit of Southeast Asian leaders known as ASEAN, |
| 0:55.8 | and in many ways it's a victory lap, another one, after his recent one-day trip to the Middle East. |
| 1:02.4 | In Malaysia, he signed the peace deal. He recently helped to broker between Cambodia and Thailand. |
| 1:09.3 | It's one of eight wars he boasts that he ended. |
| 1:13.5 | He really recently spoke about how he took time out |
| 1:16.1 | from playing golf in Scotland to help negotiate the deal |
| 1:19.6 | because in his words, it was more fun. |
| 1:22.7 | It was a beautiful day. |
| 1:24.6 | I remember how beautiful it was. |
| 1:27.3 | Timberra is a great place, but I said this is much more important than playing around the |
| 1:31.3 | golf. So we sat there all day long making phone calls and it was amazing the way it came together |
| 1:37.3 | very quickly. I mean, really, very quickly. You caused me very good entertainment. I could have |
| 1:42.3 | had a lot of fun, but this is much more fun for me |
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