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Could Harriet Tubman replace Andrew Jackson on $20 bills?
America's $20 facelift; Prince Charles's private letters and Peru's wildlife trade.
A grassroots campaign is pushing the US Department of the Treasury to put a woman on American currency. Private letters sent by the Prince of Wales to government ministers in the UK are published after a lengthy battle. And we head to Peru to find out why the illegal trade in wildlife is pushing some species to extinction.
(Picture: A likeness of Andrew Jackson, seventh President of the United States, adorns the front of $20 bills but a new campaign seeks to have him replaced with an appropriate woman on the currency. Credit: AP/Bill Sikes)
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