Jonathan Head
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175 appearances
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3 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 2 Sep
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The BBC's Jonathan Head reporting.
Cambodia, Thailand, and it started up today.
Tomorrow I have to make a phone call.
Who else could say I'm going to make a phone call and stop a war of two very powerful countries?
Thailand and Cambodia, they're going at it again.
What do you think are the advantages of Calibri?
Do you think your typeface lacks decorum?
That's a kind of an ephemeral media, isn't it?
Do you think that in some sense that means that we are less appreciative of lettering than we are in print?
Well, it depends very much on the screen.
There are great sheets of rain driving across the roads.
This is not the first typhoon this season, but it may be in terms of its size the biggest and it's carrying huge quantities of rain.
And that's what's really worrying the authorities here.
For the moment, people are sheltering in any solid buildings they can find.
Earlier today, we watched coastal areas evacuating, people leaving anywhere near the sea or any low-lying or flimsy houses and moving into sports centres, city halls, any kind of solid building where they can shelter for the night while these driving winds cross the country.
There were officially eight people still technically being held, but we already knew that two of them had died in captivity. They're among the 44 Thais who have died either in captivity or in the initial Hamas attacks. So that left six, and I think a lot of people here were hoping that all six would be released. But five of them, all men,
who are farm workers who've come from mostly the northeast and north of Thailand. That's where most of these guest workers come from, to work in Israel. It's a long tradition going back many decades, the ties to go to Israel. And, yep, they've all been released. As far as we can tell, they're in reasonable health. We can only imagine the conditions they've been held in.
I mean, I can remember talking to hostages who were released after only about 50 days, and they were pretty traumatised by the experience, so we can't even guess... what their state of mind is. The big question is still this one remaining man, whose wife actually I've been in touch with since the very start of this, and we really had hoped that he would be among those released.
We don't know what's happened to him. There's no record of his name. Hamas haven't mentioned holding him. He's not recorded as having died. So he is the one last remaining contingent among the Thais who are caught up. And remember, the Thais were the largest group of foreign nationals who were caught up in the whole Hamas attack and the hostage crisis after that.
Yes, we have. I mean, I've been reporting from Bangkok, but my Thai colleagues have gone off to talk to someone. They're all quite a long way away. It's absolutely fantastic. I mean, the sense of relief. You know, they don't show emotion very much all along. They're quite stoical. They've been buoyed by their communities.
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