This is a download from the BBC. It's the latest edition of From Our Own Correspondent, broadcast on Radio 4,

and it's introduced by Kate Aide.

Hello. Today the United States calls for the extradition of the drugs Baron loved and revered in Mexico as much as he's hated and reviled.

People in Beirut wonder if it's time to move out as the war in Syria creeps ever closer. He'd had

argument in Spain as the Prime Minister declares a referendum on independence for

Catalonia would be illegal.

And Europe might have been busy tearing down the borders these past two decades, but

Central Asia we find has been busy putting them up.

The American Secretary of State John Kerry says the US wants to work with Russia and other countries

for a peaceful process in Ukraine.

What's happening there, he said, should not be seen as a battleground between the west and

east but about Ukrainians making choices about their future. Armed men meanwhile

have seized the regional parliament and government buildings in Crimea.

Russian flags are said to be flying over both buildings this morning.

Earlier, Russia put 150,000 troops on high alert near its border with Ukraine. Gabriel Gatehouse, who's in the capital, Kiev, says Parliament there will vote on a new government

later today, but few in Ukraine expect it would bring a swift return to stability.

Vassili points up at a yellow building on the hill overlooking independent square.

His gold teeth glint in the morning sun.

My grandfather was shot there, he says. I'm confused what last

week because it was at that spot exactly a week ago that government snipers had

opened fire on protesters.

I was there.

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