Crowds, security still issues at summit

COPENHAGEN: A dozen young representatives from youth nongovernmental organizations (NGOS) were ready to stay the night Wednesday in the main hall at the Bella Center, site of the where the United Nations climate change conference.

In the main hall, where heads of states and governments as well as official delegates converge there between negotiations, a poster the youths were hoisting up read: "We will stay until you reach a fair, ambitious and legally binding agreement."

But when delegates and journalists arrived yesterday morning, the hall had been cleared. Journalists who wish to gain entrance must now go through a second security check to get in.