Will Chalk
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We hear from the creator of a Netflix series where celebrities record messages to be played after they die.
We're starting with a special report from Mexico following the death this week of one of the country's most wanted drug lords known as El Mencho.
He was killed on Sunday in an operation to arrest him and his death has led to violence across the country.
We've had standoffs between the drug gangs and the Mexican army.
Businesses have been torched and roads blockaded with the government coming under increasing pressure from Donald Trump to do more to control the cartels.
There are also the constant battles within the drug gangs themselves for control.
Our correspondent Quentin Somerville recently returned from the state of Sinaloa and its capital, Culiacan, which is dominated by the drug wars.
A warning, his report features graphic descriptions of violence from the start.
We're just tearing through central Kuliakalma, the paramedics are driving at speed and we're heading towards the scene of a shooting.
Just arrived at the scene.
We're actually inside the cordon now.
It's a garage.
A relative has just arrived.
One murder, six shots in all body.
So, Hector, as paramedics, there's nothing you can do.
You mainly see bodies, the dead.
There was, in fact, one person that was killed.
The owner of the garage was found dead in his office.
I can see a photograph of him now, covered in a blanket, just his feet showing.
And somewhat awfully typical for these men that, as paramedics, there's no help that they can provide, really, because they're dealing with execution-style killings and murders, and it's only dead bodies time after time.