The United States and four other countries, including China, have reached a climate agreement that includes a way to verify reductions of heat-trapping gases. A senior administration official says the agreement between the countries also requires each country to list the actions they will take to cut global warming pollution by specific amounts. The deal reiterates a goal set earlier this year on long-term emissions cuts and provides a mechanism to be help poor countries prepare for climate change.

The deal includes the United States, China, India, South Africa and Brazil. The official described the deal on the condition of anonymity because details had not been announced.

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COPENHAGEN (AP) _ President Barack Obama raced from one impromptu meeting to another and made an animated plea for compromise Friday, making plain his frustration over the difficulty of pushing world leaders to settle on a plan to combat global warming.

"We are running short on time," Obama told the 193-nation summit as the clock was running out on its final day. "There has to be movement on all sides."

Working into the night and putting his departure time in question, Obama had scheduled a second one-on-one meeting with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao after an earlier session of nearly an hour. But that second meeting did not take place and it was unclear why.

Officials had said the two men made a step forward in their earlier talks, though the degree of progress was not clear.

Obama also attended a third meeting with other world leaders, the only that Wen attended.

Late in the evening, Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton held talks with European leaders, including British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Asked how negotiations were going as he entered the meeting, Obama replied: "Always hopeful."

The direct talks between Obama and Wen underscored efforts to resolve differences that represent one of the major roadblocks in reaching a global climate deal. The U.S. has been insisting that China, the only nation that emits more heat-trapping gasses than the U.S., make its emissions-reduction pledges subject to international review.

Without mentioning China specifically, Obama addressed Beijing's resistance in his speech.

"I don't know how you have an international agreement where we all are not sharing information and making sure we are meeting our commitments," he said. "That doesn't make sense. It would be a hollow victory."