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Hello, I'm Oliver Conway. We're recording this at 16 hours GMT on Tuesday the 27th of January. The EU and India hail their new trade agreement as the mother of all deals. Following Iran's violent crackdown on protests, doctors and nurses who cared for the injured are now being arrested. And Spain is to grant legal status to half a million undocumented migrants.

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India and the European Union have reached a trade deal covering 2 billion people, and they're keen to talk it up. Here's European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen using the kind of language more often heard from Donald Trump. We did it. We delivered the mother of all deals. We are creating a market of 2 billion people, and this is the tale of two giants. The world's second and fourth largest economies...

The wide-ranging deal, which includes cuts to tariffs and a joint security partnership, comes as both sides face economic and political pressure from the US. I heard more from Arunade Mukherji outside the talks in Delhi.

Kiitos, että katsoitte.

It is also going to allow preferential entry of Indian exports into the European Union at reduced tariffs and aims to boost India's labor-intensive sectors, which is why this is important, because we're looking at sectors like textiles, apparel and engineering goods, which are some of those sectors which were hit adversely because of the impact of the US tariffs that India has been reeling under.

We got a statement from Prime Minister Narendra Modi as well, who said that the deal is likely to make greater access to European markets and make it easier for India's farmers and also smaller businesses and will help boost manufacturing and services sector. So a visit and a summit certainly high on optics and both sides appear to be fairly pleased with what they've got, at least as far as their body language is concerned.

Yeah, and put this into the broader context, obviously all the disruption to global trade going around at the moment. For both sides it was very important, given that we've seen the pressures on the European Union, either when it comes to Greenland or when it comes to India, and it's continuing to purchase Russian oil, which has been something that has upset the US, and there's this constant threat of higher tariffs for India. So both sides have felt this urgency to try and get this deal over the line to try and

re-calibrate trade ties elsewhere and see what are the other alternatives as well, given the unpredictable scenario. So all of this is certainly going to be seen through that prism. But having said that, there was also a note of caution that I picked up from one of the economists who I was speaking to during my coverage, who said that this is all very well. Yes, there are many, many gains, but there will also be some challenges in terms of implementation, because in those labor-intensive sectors that we're mentioning,

They will also have to ensure that they adhere to a higher European safety standard. So there will be a change there, which could invite higher input costs. That's something that we will have to wait and watch. But there is something certainly there to kind of keep watch of as far as being optimistic, but also ensuring that there's some caution as well as they look forward to what they're calling the mother of all deals.

Renaudet Mukherjee Indian Capitalissa. Iranin rahallisuus on tullut suurin piirtein, 1,5 miljoonaa rialta USA-dollaraan. Tämä ratkaisu, jota tehtiin tehtävissä Teheranissa, on tullut, kun USA-aikakarjailija on tullut regionissa, ja se on tullut huomioon, että presidentti Trumpi voi seurata hänen vahvistuksensa militiaalisen tehtävänsä Iranin vahvistuksen massaprotestiin.

An Iranian human rights group says it's confirmed that almost 6,000 protesters were killed. Colleagues from the BBC Persian service have been receiving video messages from inside the country. This one, which contains some distressing details, came in yesterday. It has been voiced over.

Ogonche Habibzadeh is a senior reporter with BBC Persian Television. She's been telling Evan Davis more about the latest situation on the ground.

Do you feel, as you understand it, that protests are continuing or have the authorities managed to hose them down really with this internet blackout and a lot of violence against protesters?