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World leaders (from top row L clockwise) U.S. President Barack Obama, France's President Nicolas Sarkozy,German Chancellor Angela Merkel, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Japan's Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd,Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, South Africa's President Jacob Zuma, Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe, India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh address the general assembly of the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009 in Copenhagen December 16-18, 2009. World leaders worked through the early hours to try and beat a Friday deadline for a deal on cutting emissions and helping poor countries cope with the costly impact of global warming. Maybe we can get a health care bill we all like if we try this? A German climate activist cut his hair in protest outisde the venue of the Climate Summit Friday Dec. 18, 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark. The largest and most important climate change conference is on its last scheduled day, aiming to secure an agreement on how to protect the world from calamitous global warming. President Barack Obama plunged into an unscheduled meeting Friday with representatives of nearly 20 nations as world leaders, pressed for time, struggled to reach an agreement on how to curb heat-trapping gasses that are warming the planet. German climate activist Henrike Wegener cries as her hair is cut   President Barack Obama seen before speaking at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, Friday, Dec. 18, 2009.   COPENHAGEN, DENMARK - DECEMBER 18: Reporters, photographers and television crews gather round a TV monitor to listen as US President Barack Obama address delegates at the final day of the UN Climate Change Conference on December 18, 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark. World leaders will try to reach agreement on targets for reducing the earth's carbon emissions on this last day of the summit. President Barack Obama told reporters after a bilateral meeting with Russian President Medvedev that the two leaders had made "excellent progress" on reviving the lapsed START treaty, declaring: "We are quite close to an agreement." ..... Also attending the meeting are U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (2nd R) and National Security Adviser Gen. James L. Jones (R).          U.S. President Barack Obama and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, right, react as they pass through the main press conference room in between meetings at the U.N. Climate Conference  "Can you believe that? Now they're actually FILIBUSTERING defense funding bills! Is that not a sign of the end of times or what?"  U.S. President Barack Obama (on L) sits with South Africa's President Jacob Zuma (L), Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (3rd L), Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (4th R), Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (3rd R) and other world leaders during a multi-lateral meeting at the Bella Center in Copenhagen  US President Barack Obama passes by on his way to bilateral talks at the UN Climate Summit in Copenhagen on Friday, Dec. 18, 2009. Bob!  "Anyone ever tell you guys that you look like the two Senators from Illinois?"  The pool reports: "Pool spray pre-bilateral between Obama and Wen is a mess...."The Chinese press corps shoved their way into the small room where POTUS and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao were about to meet, preventing most of the American press pool from entering...."Robert Gibbs said something to the effect of 'my people' (meaning American press corps) have to get into the room, 'or we're leaving.' A few American media were able to get in, but your pooler and other nonbroadcast reporters could not get in."...Second pooler reports: "Wen Jiabao was already sitting at the table. There was a lot of pushing and shoving from the Chinese cameramen assembling for the photo spray, and White House spokesman Robert Gibbs and NSC chief of staff Denis McDonough both got roughed up a bit trying to get into the room." President Barack Obama arrives to makes a statement at the United Nations Climate Change Conference at the Bella Center in Copenhagen, Denmark, Friday, Dec. 18, 2009.  U.S. President Barack Obama shakes hands on arrival at the congress center during the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009 in Copenhagen December 18, 2009. Obama reached agreement with major developing powers on a climate deal on Friday  A handout shows members of the TckTckTck coalition wearing masks of (from L-R) heads of states Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and U.S. President Barack Obama to protest during the United Nations Climate Change Conference  
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