Vanessa Kortekaas provides a briefing of Wednesday’s top stories, including Royal Dutch Shell’s £47bn takeover of BG Group, Rand Paul’s bid to be US president and a South Carolina police officer’s murder charge for allegedly shooting an unarmed black man.

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