stephen carter is a researcher for the corruption watchdog group global witness. >> the situation athe moment is you have a real illustration there is competition among armed groups for resources. that creates the ideal conditions for an insurgrgency o flourish. everyonene has an interest in te government being a hollow shell. reporter:: offfficials s say muf the illegalal stotos are beining smuggled through the province, home to some of afghanistan's most dangerous factions. reporter: that is it from the business desk. anchor: thank you. turkey has sunk and airbus passenger jet in the aegean sea. it may sound like the final scene of a disaster movie. but authorities are hoping the wreck will become an artificial reefef and boost diving in the area. the area is heavily reliant on tourism. key groups of tourists, the russians, have dropped since relations between the countries soured. you are watching "dw news." that is all we have time for. before we go, we want to leave you with a tribute to the man they called simply "the world's greatest." see you soon. >> ♪ i am in eagle i am a l

researcher stephen carter said the mines have destabilized badakhstan province in northern afghanistan. --at the moment, you have there is competition among armed groups. what that does, it creates the ideal conditions for an insurgency to flourish. everyone has got an interest. everyone has got an interest in the government being essentially a hollow shell. amy: the u.s. department of energy is conducting an eight-city national tour aimed at gathering public feedback on the issue of wherere to store nuclear waste. the agency has lnched a so-called consent-t-based siting model to determine where to storore spent nunuclear fuel and high-level radioactitive waste. at a hearing in bostston thursd, papaul gunter r of beyond nucler raraised objections abouout the process. >> how does the public and the afaffected community build trust when the d department t of enery ititself is a a promotional agey doing the bidding of the nuclear indusstry by d direct promotion? and thahat the wholle process gg forwaard to date has lacked consnsent. there has never beenonsent with regegard to generation o

carter covering metro. michelle: jamie sullivan and chris papst are on traffic watch. jonathan: stephen tschida is looking at businesses affected by today's changes but let's start off with the transportation reporter brianne carter at foggy bottom where metro g.m. paul wiedefeld will be briefing the media in a moment. brianne: that is right. not only from paul wiedefeld, metro's general manager but also jack evans the board chairman will be here speaking in a matter of minutes. this comes after some riders and lack of communication. specifically at the ballston station this morning. in terms of what platform they needed to be on to get to the trains and get to their job this morning. now while metro officials could be seen inside and outside of the stations impacted by stage one of safetrack, metro riders tell us they couldn't get clear information on shuttle buses or which train to get on. now this comes as the first weekday of the safetrack phase one, which has trains single tracking from ballston to east falls church. crews replace the tracks at the ballston metro station in the mid

carter they're abusing. of course, with obama on the way out, by law, someone else has to move in to the the white house. and it could be president trump. ( audience booing ) >> stephen: makes me excited, too. trump is making a real effort to appear more presidential these days. yesterday, he went to a pennsylvania recycling plant where he unveiled part of his economic platform. and instead of wearing his trademark baseball cap, he stood in front of a giant pile of garbage. ( laughter ) here's the plan. he's going to revive the economy by turning in empties for the refund. ( laughter ) in michigan, where it's 10 cent. michigan fans here. or recycling fans. i'm not entirely sure. ( applause ) now, in the wake of britain's exit from the e.u.-- the brexit-- trump outlined his plan for a trump exit, or trexit. >> number one, i am going to withdraw the united straights from the transpacific partnership. >> stephen: hold on, hold on ( laughter ) did i-- did he just say "united straights?" >> jon: yes, he did. well, you heard him, straight people. trump is now demanding a heterosexit. ( laughter ) ( applause ) ( cheers ) ♪ ♪ that's me. bye, bye! of course, the trump campaig