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Hello and welcome to News Hour live from the BBC World Service.
I'm Rebecca Kesby.
Coming up on the programme today, President Trump has arrived in Scotland.
We'll be talking golf, whisky,
salmon and obviously politics and how the global popularity of Japanese matcha tea has left producers struggling to meet demand.
First though,
let's look at the latest on the cross-border clashes between Cambodia and Thailand that have erupted this week.
Tens of thousands Thousands of civilians have already been displaced by fighting an artillery fire.
At least 30 people have been killed.
The border is over 800 kilometres long, much of it in densely forested areas or rural farming land.
But parts of the region have been contested for centuries with religious sites and temples often flashpoints.
It seems political tensions were behind this latest sudden military escalation as our South Asia correspondent Jonathan Head has been telling me.
He's close to the border on the Thai side at the moment and I asked him to give us the latest on the fighting
because we're hearing it's spread to new areas.
Well it has spread to one other part of the border quite a long way from where I am down in the far south at that point the border between Thailand and Cambodia.
narrows and gets very close to the coast and so the Thai navy was deployed.
Now we're only getting the Thai military's account of this but they say they deployed navy forces backed by navy ships to push back Cambodian forces they say had reinforced that area and were threatening.
I mean we don't know exactly what the status of those Cambodian forces was but the Thais are reporting a successful operation very early this morning to push That kept the Cambodian forces back.
In the meantime,