Luke Vargas

And as trade reporter Kim McRaehl is here to discuss, it comes as a number of U.S.

trading partners are actively taking steps to curb their reliance on America.

Kim, thanks for being with us this morning.

What should we know about this agreement, the broad strokes?

And Kim, this is coming at a very helpful time for India as well when trade barriers between it and the US notably have been going up.

And Kim, this is a good segue to discussing how other big U.S.

trading partners are positioning themselves lately.

We reported earlier this month on Canada opening up its auto and its energy sectors to Chinese products, also inviting investment by Beijing into Canada.

But there's more than Canada to talk about here.

I've been speaking to Wall Street Journal trade reporter Kim McRae in Brussels.

Kim, thank you so much for the update.

We go now to Iran, where details are emerging about one of the bloodiest crackdowns in the country in decades.

Iran shut off the internet and blocked communications earlier this month, trying to keep the world in the dark about the deadly wave of violence it used to crush anti-government protests.

And now, as rights groups investigate, they say they're uncovering evidence that the death toll is far higher than they originally thought, as the journal's Margarita Stancati reports.

That would make it one of the deadliest episodes since the establishment of the Islamic Republic and even exceed the death toll of China's crackdown on Tiananmen Square in 1989.

And Margarita says the sheer scale of violence has repressed protests and sent a chill through the Iranian population.

And the rising number of deaths could have geopolitical significance, with the U.S.

moving an aircraft carrier to the Middle East in the event of a possible strike on Iran.

President Trump held off attacking Iran earlier this month, saying that the country had stopped killing protesters, but said he was monitoring the situation.

Coming up, we've got the rest of the day's news, including a potential antitrust red flag for Netflix's Warner deal and the end of an era of dashing to grab your seat on Southwest Airlines.