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00:00Cambodia has welcomed a proposal by President Trump for a ceasefire with Thailand after

00:05days of cross-border fighting.

00:08Thailand said it was willing to consider a ceasefire, but that dialogue must come first.

00:12Mr Trump told the leaders of both countries there would be no talks on reducing U.S. tariffs

00:18until the fighting stopped.

00:20Shelling continued overnight after the U.S. President's calls.

00:24Our South East Asia correspondent Jonathan Head reports from the Thai-Cambodian border.

00:31So could President Trump have more success here in South East Asia than he's had so far

00:36in Gaza or Ukraine?

00:38The response to his unexpected phone calls to both Prime Ministers of Cambodia and Thailand

00:44has so far been very positive.

00:46The Cambodian side eagerly want a ceasefire, that's President Trump's demand.

00:50Hun Met said he was very grateful for President Trump's intervention.

00:55But remember, Cambodia had already asked for a ceasefire at the U.N. on Friday.

00:59Its own military forces are much weaker than Thailand's.

01:02And we believe they've probably been taking a lot of punishment from the relentless Thai

01:07artillery barrages and airstrikes that we've seen over the last three days.

01:11On the Thai side, the response is positive and warm.

01:15But the Thai Prime Minister said only that they would agree to a ceasefire in principle

01:20if they saw good intentions from the Cambodian side.

01:24That's actually been the Thai position all along.

01:26The Thai military and the government do not appear ready for a ceasefire right now.

01:30As far as the Thai military is concerned, they still have unfinished business.

01:34They still want to push Cambodian forces well back from the border and probably inflict

01:39more damage on them.

01:40There's a lot of anger in this country over those rocket attacks on Thursday which killed

01:4413 Thai civilians.

01:46And the Thai side has always said what they want is dialogue with Cambodia first.

01:51Before any ceasefire, the Thai Prime Minister reiterated that position in his response to

01:57Donald Trump's phone call.

01:59So ostensibly, that phone call hasn't changed anything.

02:02We have seen shelling overnight coming both ways.

02:06We've seen some buildings destroyed here in Thailand.

02:08We assume the Thais have just kept up that ongoing artillery barrage over to the Cambodian side.

02:13But the key point in President Trump's statement was that he said he also warned both sides.

02:20of his

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