but french foreign minister laurent fabeuse, says the conference will close a day late, with a deal. the countries have to digest what their leaders have done. the leaders of the two biggest emitting nation he china and the united states continue to publicly declare their confidence in a settlement that will limit emissions growth and slow climate change. al jazeera's nick clark reports from paris. >> all night and day they worked and all night and all day again and still no resolution. we're told they're very close though. >> after the consultations that i'm going to have at 9:00 saturday morning, i'll present a theax will be a bitext that wilp forward for whole of humanity. >> 196 countries with differing interest to agree for a way forward is a monumental challenge. >> i think it's a great big space, light at the end of the tunnel, we can do it. there are positions that are quite hard to get to. it's very political at the moment. i think we've moved past the substance. there's a lot we can live with. we've got to push the bar a bit and not make it the lowest common denominator. th