but me in the studio now is our senior correspondent mark gas jeff who was witness to the battling battle unfolding in mosul you were you were there at the same what were the things that stood out most to you. well it still stands out in the seven months since the battle of mosul ended they're still digging up people's bodies and here there's no end in sight i mean these rescuers work every day just this time we we film them and what's more you know we can't obviously show our viewers everything but this footage in particular is very distressing because it's always so when it when it comes to children but i was there when these bodies had just begun to rot and i don't the gull ever forget it was the smell it was beyond sickening beyond north you know there were areas entire districts in moves where you could hardly breathe properly mother nature in seven months of job but the smell hasn't gone it's still there it's just isn't as bad on the surface true the real heroes the people doing the digging the people the rescuers that are sifting through all this all this wreckage and pulling out t