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Shell cuts 6,500 jobs as oil prices hurt

Royal Dutch Shell has posted a 37 percent drop in second quarter profit. As Hayley Platt reports the Anglo-Dutch oil and gas company is planning to axe 6,500 this year and reduce spending further to deal with persistently low oil prices.