staying on the ground and for more let's bring in correspondent banta he did she is standing by right on the french german border between the french town of 4 and the german city suburb. and balanced you are on the german side know those new checks they've just taken effect is traffic still rolling. but you have to wait at least 30 minutes until you can enter from france to germany you have to get to this checkpoint which you can see behind me here and the police is stopping every kano checking if the germans in the car or other nationals judgments can go on the right lane they can enter germany of cause others have to go to another checkpoint close to me have a 20 policemen asking people what are you doing in germany what's the purpose of your visit and only if you're a commuter if you have your workplace in germany then you're allowed to enter all of those are going to have to turn around and go back to france you know to trucks can enter deliveries of goods is not to him but by this foot today so the border is not completely closed but it's difficult to get into germany right now n