Thailand launches air strikes on Cambodia
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We get the inside track on Lando Norris, the new Formula One champion. We begin in Southeast Asia, where a fragile peace between Thailand and Cambodia appears to be under further strain. The two countries have fought a five-day war in July, the latest flayed up in a century-old territorial dispute. And while a ceasefire brokered with the help of Donald Trump appeared to ease tensions, each side had accused the other of breaking it. Now the Thai military says one of its soldiers has been killed in a fresh wave of border clashes and it's launched airstrikes at Cambodian forces in response. Punisha Emosa gave me this update from Bangkok.
The whole news rounds of fighting between Thailand and Cambodia began on Sunday and it has been expanded today. About 20 minutes ago, I've talked to one of the civilians who still live in the border area from the Thai side, and they said that they still hear the opening shot at each other. Both sides are still accusing each other of firing opening shots. As we already mentioned, one Thai soldier has been dead and four are wounded. And at the moment, from the Thai side, almost 400,000 civilians across four border districts are now being evacuated.
Have we had any response from Cambodia on all this?
The Cambodian Defence Ministry also accused Thailand of launching itself at two locations after what is called Day of Provocative Action and said that Cambodian troops had not retaliated.
Tensions have been bubbling away for quite some time. And this is, of course, something that stretches back many decades, as much as a century. So what do we expect next? Is this a serious escalation?
Actually, after the seed fight agreement, this has been one of the most serious fightings between the two countries because people now have to evacuate as officials. And I've already mentioned this. We are talking about 400,000 alone in Thai side. One could imagine that it would be almost severe as well for the Cambodian side. And along the way, after the agreement on the ceasefire, we have seen incidents of landmiles, but not to this level of fighting. And both sides are still fighting each other. The Thai side, the Thai military, said that they're already deploying aircraft to strike Cambodian military position in Sarov's area. But they mentioned that it's according to the rule of engagement just to suppress the continual attacks.
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