and for more we are joined by david obey a correspondent bob a vase at dunkirk france new york are the new border checks went into force overnight there and don clark are you seeing the sort of chaos that many had predicted no absolutely not it is a very quiet day 1st of january of course and the proof of whether the new systems work all the new customs check that are coming in the veterinary checks and all the paperwork that is needed the proof whether that is will work will come next week of course when normal traffic will begin to flow back and forth across the channel here in the back you see some of the ferries repositioning and sort of moving up and down and waiting to take on trucks on their journey to dover and would be here is if in the power money from the d.f.t. as a ferry company and you have really worked hard and quite a while to prepare for this you know how is this going to work yeah so we have prepared for quite a while and it works the way that our customers they present the cousin documents in dover and then they they sell across an s.s.l. across the fence we offload

correspondent barbara hazel sent us this update from dunkirk france new york away so this is the last piece of our great city goodbye to on the 1st of january when the harbor of dunkirk quite soon next to kill the one of the harbors that supply the crossing to do over here what we see in the back of the trucks roaming the 1st carry on on this day where everything has changed and nancy's names was what has been here and what. the apartment you. know. yeah today has been a very exciting day for us it's the 1st departure from from. what we did in dover and what we didn't do yesterday is take all the customs documentation and paperwork from there from a cost of us then we we uploaded to the french customs authorities and we and we then. she displayed on screens on board all vessels where we will have a green light for all the trucks to go into the present thirty's and our orange light for all the trucks that will need to go for special kicks in france in particular the food and animal stuff so maybe we can take a look further back into where the part of the harbor where the trucks are now