Thailand launches airstrikes along border with Cambodia as tensions reignite

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00:00This CCTV footage shows moments of terror as an explosion is heard in Thailand Monday, near the country's border with Cambodia.

00:10Blasts could be heard across the region as Thai jets carried out airstrikes in what Thailand called an act of self-defense,

00:18a response to Cambodian attacks along the border on Sunday.

00:23Thailand's priority is to protect our sovereignty and territorial integrity.

00:28Our military action will continue until Thailand's sovereignty and territorial integrity are not being compromised.

00:37On the other side of the border in Cambodia, plumes of smoke could be seen from the airstrikes.

00:43And students ran out of their classrooms in abject fear.

00:47By the thousands, people evacuated neighborhoods near the border.

00:51This was the scene in Cambodia.

00:53And this is what it looked like in Thailand as people left to escape the violence.

00:58For its part, the Cambodian government accused Thailand of being the aggressor.

01:02Faced with attacks from Thailand, the Cambodian army still did not retaliate.

01:07They respected the ceasefire, the joint ceasefire agreement between Cambodia and Thailand.

01:13A long-standing territorial dispute between the two countries has fueled recent clashes,

01:18including what's called the Five-Day War last July in which dozens were killed

01:22and some 300,000 people were displaced on both sides of the border.

01:27In October, alongside Donald Trump, the two sides signed a ceasefire agreement

01:31and became one of the many wars the U.S. President has claimed to have settled.

01:37From the end to the cross, we see the beginning of the border on the border.

01:39On the border line.

01:40The cliffside, the police, the queue, the two sides in the border,

01:41there was not a majority on the border.

01:42The wheel was transferred to the border, there was a high risk-to-s LGBTQ building

01:45and all the other positions were replaced by the Kanan Jashi.

01:47The first thing is that, this is what we're facing now and by the end.

01:48It's going to be exactly the end.

01:49We're not to enter, so it's been one of the other습니다.

01:50We're not to enter the borderline centers of the border.

Thailand launches airstrikes along border with Cambodia as tensions reignite

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