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00:02 Report by Ralph Martin
00:32 Donald Trump | US President | December 9, 2025
00:49 Archive footage - July 2025
01:19 Nikorndej Balankura | Thai Foreign Ministry of Foreign Affairs Spokesperson | December 10, 2025

Script:
  
People fleeing the border between Thailand and Cambodia - officials say more than 500,000 are displaced. As fighting  between the two countries continues. Hostilities began after Thailand accused Cambodian forces of firing on its troops.

:16 MAP
The conflict is a border dispute that goes back decades. Both countries claim ancient temples and the lands that surround them, which were once part of the same empire. 

US President Donald Trump says he'll take care of it. 

:32 SOT Trump 
"Tomorrow I have to make a phone call and I think they'll get it. 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. But I'll do it.”

:48 ((july fighting pix)) 
But Trump has already done it - when fighting broke out in July of this year, he threatened sky-high tariffs on both sides if they didn't stop fighting. They agreed to a truce and then in October, with Trump present, they signed a 
cease-fire deal. 

That deal started to fray within weeks, with both countries accusing each other of firing across the border in November - and now the latest round of fighting.

Thailand does not seem to want Trump's help this time around. 

1:25  SOT Foreign Affairs Spox 
"If a third country had proposed to mediate, I think Thailand will not accept it. I think we made it very clear that this issue…that the line has been crossed."

1:41 ((more displaced people))   
It's now unclear what leverage Trump wants to use to stop the conflict this time. With feelings running high on both sides, tariff threats may no longer be enough. 

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