than it was during the cold war so what lies ahead to find out let's go live to our correspondent terry schulte the summit for us in london good day to you terry we just heard in our report there are a number of problems can confronting nato if you could take one what is the biggest issue confronting the alliance right yeah. well it depends on the day and that is probably the biggest problem that there are so many tensions within the alliance that we haven't even been focusing in recent months on the challenges coming from outside the alliance the threats to nato allies we have been talking solely in the last few weeks about these comments by president mcclellan that nato is brain dead before that it's whether the u.s. will pull out of europe the u.s. pressing european allies on their defense spending so all of these are internal questions and that's pretty frustrating for secretary general stoltenberg who of course wants to portray nato as as an alliance that is unified and ready to face the external threats so really it's these internal questions that are the biggest problem the alliance has