Alex Ritson

But what we've seen is the Thai side this time, they're very assertive.

And it seems that at the moment they can agree.

And we also have the conditions of the 18 Cambodian soldiers to be returned back.

So at the moment, it is promising with the term and the condition.

Panisa, how deep is the enmity between Thailand and Cambodia now?

With this new route of disputes, it actually affects a lot of people in the border.

We have actually interviewed a lot of people in the borders and we have to understand that these borders area in the past before the dispute or even back in 10 years ago when there were disputes as well, people were still living together as villagers.

Some of them are families, their family, but they have to be integrated.

separated at the moment.

In the past, they don't really have hatred toward each other that severely compared to present, where you can see that the sentiment, the nationalistic sentiment has spilled over, not only in the border area, and we're talking about nationwide as well.

If you go online, we can see comment that crashing at each other, attacking each other.

So we can still see that even though we have the ceasefire at the moment and we already have ceasefire before, but the dislike and the nationalistic sentiment is still there lingering toward each other.

Panisa Imoka of the BBC's Thai service in Bangkok.

President Trump has been making some bold claims following the Christmas Day strikes he ordered against the Islamic State group in northwest Nigeria.

Like the attacks on Iran's nuclear sites earlier this year, Mr Trump has declared that the US military has decimated its targets, in this case IS camps.

It's not yet clear how many people were killed.

but US and Nigerian officials said that fighters were among the dead.

The Nigerians said that there were no civilian casualties.

The BBC's Makochi Okafor has reached the town of Sokoto close to the strikes and has spoken to locals.

Mr Trump told the Politico news website that the operation, which was agreed with the Nigerian military, was planned for Wednesday, but he chose to delay by a day so he could give the IS fighters a Christmas present, as he put it.