the world now, cutting flight links, and france now stopping freight and lorries coming elizabeth dejong logistics uk and shejoins me now. we have seen, not surprisingly, huge tailbacks of trucks in kent, around dover. what do you think is going to happen with this? is this going to be unblocked from the french side in particular? do you think the french authorities are going to relent and change this ban? it is a very live situation. all day i have been involved in government calls with cobra, defra, but we are hearing the same from government, that they are really hopeful that agreement can be reached to recommence those freight movements before the 48—hour time period elapses. it's obviously very concerning, in terms of stocks around christmas, isn't it? what are the implications, in terms of food supplies in this country in particular? well, inbound traffic is still allowed, so traffic and freight can come into the country, and also unaccompanied freight is allowed in too. so for the next few days we are not so concerned. there is enough food in the supply chain. it's really if this