cross over to our financial market correspondent chelsea delaney who is standing by for us and frank fidget chelsea so are german our european companies prepared for brics it. despite the fact that broke that is 2 days away it's still very difficult for companies here in germany in europe to make any sort of long term preparations for exit because they don't know what the relationship between the between the e.u. and the u.k. is going to be once the u.k. leaves the e.u. on friday they're going to be in a transition period for 11 months and in that period that's when they're really going to start hammering out these really difficult issues about trading relationships about tariffs quotas and all of these things that are really going to define the relationships between german and german businesses you kate this isn't really the trading relationship there so i think intil until businesses have a clear sense of what the trading relationship is going to be like what kind of agreements they're able to come to if they're able to come to an agreement within the 11 month period which a lot of people don't t