Hello, and welcome to this edition of CRI Roundup. I'm Yunfeng in Beijing.
Let's take a look at some of the major events that have happened in China and around the world during the past week.
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China announced this week it is sending a 1099-member strong delegation for the Beijing Olympic Games, among them, 639 are athletes.
On Wednesday, Chinese President Hu Jintao visited the country's athletes, and expressed the hope they could endevour （努力）with strong minds and achieve good results in the Games, winning glory for the country.
"You are a good model in our country's sports industry. Your spirit has ever encouraged all the athletes. I hope you can unite and cooperate with each other in the coming Olympic Games and get good results."
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The Chinese capital began on Sunday a two-month-long control of the use of vehicles. During the two months, vehicles with odd and even numbered plates will be allowed to run on alternate days in Beijing.
The city's public transportation condition is improving as Feng Xingfu with the Public Transport Holding Limited explained.
"In the past three years, we have invested a total of 13 billion Yuan or 1.9 billion US dollars to replace more than 10,000 outdated buses. More than 97% of the buses in our company have reached the Euro 3 emission standard. "
Beijing has also strengthened its security. Rail, and long-distance bus facilities in Beijing are already on heightened alert.
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On Tuesday, China Civil Aviation Administration announced no planes are to be allowed to take off or land at Beijing Capital International Airport from 7 p.m. to midnight on August 8, the night of the Games' opening ceremony.
An anti-terrorist force of nearly 100,000 commandos, police and army troops have been deployed to handle possible terrorist attacks before and during the Beijing Olympic Games.
In northern China, Tianjin Olympic Centre Stadium has completed almost all of its interior decorations.
In east China's Qingdao city, where the Olympics sailing events will be held, the media center for the Games has been completed.
Yi Naxin is News Manager of the competition venues in Qingdao.
"For example, you can check out the background information of the athletes and their game schedules. You can also get the results five minutes after the games through these computers."
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After the detailed look at the Olympics, let's turn to overseas.
Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi spoke highly of the informal meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the Six-Party Talks in Singapore, during which top diplomats from the United States and North Korea have met face-to-face the first time since 2004.
Yang Jiechi said the meeting has very meaningful results.
"There has been major progress towards the realisation of the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsular, normalisation of relations between the relevant countries and the realisation of peace and stability in Northeast Asia."
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A Serbian official has said that Radovan Karadzic would be handed over to the UN war crimes tribunal this weekend or early next week.
Bruno Vekaric is the spokesman for Serbia's war crimes prosecutor.
"The legal deadline for the appeal is three days. I am assuming the appeal will be launched on Friday, after that judges will decide when they make their decision. We are expecting the Court of appeal will not wait all three days they have to answer to the appeal, but we are talking about a weekend so all is possible."
The incident came after Serbia moved closer to overcoming its biggest obstacle to EU integration, when its security forces arrested Karadzic, one of three remaining war crimes suspects.
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Karadzic is currently in Belgrade awaiting extradition following his capture on Monday.
But afficials at the Hague-based International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, said later that they do not know when Karadzic will be transferred.
Karadzic cannot be flown to the Hague until a Belgrade court has considered the appeal that he will lodge against the extradition.
The Serbian government has declined to comment on the arrest of Karadzic. It insisted it was up to the police and the judiciary system in the country.
