coalition air strikes and who, too, is doing the bombing, christiane. >> also, nick, in terms of what's going on in iraq, you're in irbil in a kurdish-controlled area. how does this world look up in the area where you are up in the north against isis? >> reporter: certainly up peer we saw in the last 32 hours an extraordinarily swift of the peshmerga against isis. they have been expected to spend potentially days fighting in the town of sinjar. their victory there occurred with remarkable speed. they had spent about 24 hours it seemed probing and suddenly moved in from the north with remarkable speed. minimal resistance, but it was pretty much done within about 48 hours. that was largely down to the volume peshmerga sent at that particular time and also coalition air strikes evident in the sky.