countries around us, singapore, southeast asia, obviously xi jingping is the most searched leader.uschina rendering, if you look at numbers, apart from donald trump, if you look at the leaders who have been around since 2014, angela merkel, xi jingping and modi, modi is globally the most searched but on country by country basis, if you said who is the most searched leader in this country, merkel wins in both countries. in fact, country, merkel wins in both countries. infact, not country, merkel wins in both countries. in fact, not that it's a competition... where you look at where modi is most searched, often in countries where there is a lot of expat indians living abroad, another credit to the fact the internet allows you to take your culture with you wherever you go. robin moroney speaking to me a little earlier. you're watching newsday on the bbc. still to come on the programme: another christmas in makeshift churches. we report on the plight of christians in the indonesian province of aceh. also on the programme: a safe landing for boeing's starliner space capsule, after its f

he also said that xi jingping told henry kisinger he'd rather deal with donald trump than any of theemocratic candidates take that for what it's worth. maybe that's just happy talk but he told kudlow that he would rather deal with donald trump because trump's not so focused on the human rights issues as a lot of the democratic candidates will be and so therefore it's easier to talk to him because he sees him as a man of business. >> i have been thinking about not just human rights but climate control as china is going way back on the coal train again and i know that senator warren is a very serious protector or stake holder of the earth. when he sees the field, these are people that have issues with labor and issues with human rights and issues with the planet trump doesn't really share a lot of those attributes. >> put yourself in xi jingping's shoes. he is negotiating and has huge implications for his country but also the president and his re-election effort xi jingping is in a position to grant donald trump a trade deal or not in an election year how does he weigh all of those fac

is xi jingping personally responsible for the imprisonment and holding in camps of more than a million uyghurs? >> well, he is. he is the leader of that country. but the question is, what do we do about it? and those stories that we have seen in the news have been just atrocious. you have students, they will go away to college, basically, and they come back and their parents are gone, their families are gone. and if we cannot stand up for that, against that, i don't know what we can stand up against. so to me, a lot of this is working with our allies, so we make very clear what they're doing is wrong. this is a change that can be made. we know we had a history of this, with the japanese, and we reversed that, and we have apologized for that, and we have decades and decades coming back from that. so we of all countries would be able to say this is wrong and stand up against it. do i think this should be part of our trade negotiations? no. i think this should be separate from our trade negotiations. as well as what we recently did in the congress in standing up for the ability of the pro

president xi jingping gives a speech tomorrow and perhaps we'll get a little more detail then >> is therection to the fact that it might be the vice premiere who comes rather than the administration >> they are trying to manage the expectations of this for several week ambassador bob lighthouzer said you shouldn't expect the leaders to sign the deal it would be the ministers. china has yet to confirm that possibility. we have left to expect still it will be the ministers. as far as surprises i'm not surprised by that. >> all right thank you. >>> coming up, 2019 was banner year for disney with billion dollar blockbuster after billion dollar blockbuster can 2020 measure up to that or will more streaming options keep people out of the theaters? your 2020 play book on media is coming up next >>> in the fight between amd and intel, amd won this latest round up 150% this year. does intel have a plan to get back at s itrival? power lunch will be right back >>> brand new numbers are putting disney box office domination in perspective. their movies accounted for 38% of box office sales this year.