this is cnn breaking news. and welcome to our viewers here in the u.s., and around the world, i'm natalie allen. and we're following breaking news out of iran. a passenger plane carrying 66 people has reportedly crashed. it was flying from the capital tehran to yasuj, an area to the let's check in with our senior international correspondent sam kiley in abu dhabi. he's following developments. what more do we know about the area where this plane went down? >> it's extremely mountainous. local authorities say that the

aircraft went down in an area known as the dena mountain. now this is -- this one mountain alone has 40, that's 4-0, feet over 4,000 meters. that is over 12,000 feet. and aircraft, a helicopter sent to part of a rescue attempt, or an attempt to find the wreckage, and look for any survivors, was actually forced back by bad weather. this aircraft took off at 7:55 local time. and disappeared from radar. we understand about 50 minutes later. which would dovetail with its disappearance near semirom. authorities are saying they think it went down 120 kilometers from semirom in a small village in the mountains. but they haven't been able to get to it, and the assumption is that all of those on board are most likely have perished in this aircraft crash, which comes amid the continuing concern in

aviation circles in iran that the lifting or easing of sanctions against that country in return for it suspending its nuclear weapons program, is not filtering through in terms of spare ports and improved maintenance. that is not to say, however, that there is any link established at all, yet, between the disappearance of this aircraft, and any mechanical failure. >> well, we have seen protests by iranians saying that they want more resources to stay in their country, and spend them domestically. again, as you say, we don't know the cause of this crash. was there any hint or anything, do we know, from the cockpit, of trouble? >> there hasn't been yet any indication that there was a mayday signal or a communication expressing concern on behalf of the captain. the aircraft company has released a photograph showing a man until late middle age, clearly a veteran captain, so

there is no yet, so far rather, any indication of mechanical failure or any bad weather. this aircraft simply, at the moment, vanished from radar and is believed to have gone down in this highly mountainous area, in an area that is at the moment blighted by bad weather, and that is hampering retrieval of such things such as the black box, which will be fitted to this french made twin turboprop aircraft. >> you say it went down 50 minutes after takeoff? is this a routine flight? and how far into the flight would that mean it crashed? how long was it supposed to take it to fly to yasuj, do we know? >> well, it's a little over an hour's flight. or a little bit more than that, to yasuj. we can see from the direction of travel between the capital tehran and yasuj, where it went down, or rather disappeared from radar, is on the normal flight

path. albeit, perhaps a little close -- nobody's quite sure, at least i'm not quite sure about whether or not the aircraft would have gone over that mountain range, or around it. it's a pretty complex flying environment. but nonetheless, there's nothing to indicate that it was very far off track. and it was pretty much on time. it disappeared from radar. we don't know whether that was the moment of which it crashed, or whether that was some other kind of possible failure. of course, all of these sorts of details, if they find the black box, the flight recording apparatus, that's on board these commercial airliners, particularly those fitted and manufactured in europe, as this one was, that kind of information will emerge, no doubt. but for now, it appears that it was on a pretty routine flight from tehran, and has crashed en route in these very difficult mountainous area. >> we hope the weather clears so they can reach the wreckage. thank you so much.

we'll stay in touch with you sam kiley covering the story for us. in other news, one day after 13 russian operatives were charged with meddling in the u.s. presidential election, and just three days after 17 students and faculty were slaughtered in cold blood, by a young man with an assault rifle in florida, u.s. president donald trump inexplicably linked the two. in fact, he suggested the russia investigation may have been to blame for the fbi failing to follow up on a tip about the florida shooter. late saturday the president tweeted this, very sad that the fbi missed all of the many signals sent out by the florida school shooter. this is not acceptable. they are spending too much time trying to prove russian collusion with the trump campaign. there is no collusion. the president has yet to even acknowledge the russian meddling, putting him at odds with his national security adviser. listen to what h.r. mcmaster said at the munich security conference on saturday.

>> as you can see with the fbi indictment, the evidence is now really incontrovertible and available in the public domain. >> but mr. mcmaster's candor prompted this sharp rebuke from the u.s. president. he said general mcmaster forgot to say that the result of the 2016 elections were not impacted or changed by the russians, and that the only collusion was between russia and crooked h., the dnc, and the dems. all of those claims by president trump are unsubstantiated. the federal indictment is a thick document, full of rich detail about how the russians carried out such an elaborate campaign of disinformation. cnn's polo sandoval breaks it down for us. >> reporter: these 37 pages allege russians went a very long way to interfere with u.s. democracy. according to the federal indictment russians operating

out of this st. petersburg troll farm launched a misinformation campaign to wreak havoc on america's political system. >> the russian conspirators want to promote discord in the united states, and undermine public confidence in democracy. we must not allow them to succeed. >> reporter: examples of the alleged misinformation campaign include allegations of voter fraud by the democratic party. the purchase of advertisements to further promote the allegations on facebook. the pages were even designed to look like they were run by real americans, and focused on issues in american life. race relations, immigration, and of course, then-candidates hillary clinton and donald trump. facebook estimates close to 126 million americans may have been exposed to this and other propaganda. federal investigators say the group behind it is the internet research agency linked to the kremlin. russia has denied any involvement in the u.s. elections. at a security conference saturday russia's foreign minister again dismissed those

claims. >> translator: i have no response. until we see the facts, everything else is just blather. >> then there are the rallies. in may, 2016, a small group of anti-islamic protesters gathered outside a muslim community center in houston, texas, the situation grew tense with a counter rally. the very month of the election, both pro and anti-trump demonstrations were held in new york. u.s. prosecutors say both events were organized by the same troll group half a world away in st. petersburg. russians travel to the u.s. on a fact finding mission in 2014, say prosecutors. it would be the foundation of a massive operation brought to light in recent months, described in detail in these 37 pages. polo sandoval, cnn, new york. >> let's talk about the indictment with peter matthews, a political analyst and professor of political science

at cyprus college. thanks so much for being here. >> good to be here. >> republican senator lindsey graham has said mr. trump, the president, has a blind spot when it comes to russia. why does it seem like the president is incapable of saying anything negative about russia, or condemning russia, when he easily attacked our allies, like the uk, for example? >> it seems very strange from those of us looking from the outside objectively and we're really wondering, maybe he had an inclination toward working things out with russia when he came into office. but also we know that he's had investments. he had private loans given to him for his businesses from russian entities and i'm not sure if that has anything to do with it but we have to look at that. he's very slow to criticize mr. putin or russia policies, many times, maybe he has information and wants to work things out and reset the button. on the other hand maybe there's personal interests involved. that's very problematic. >> is there anything congress

can do to force president trump's hand, vis-a-vis sanctions against russia? >> well, he's the executive branch leader. so he's got to implement what congress actually has passed. if he refuses to do so, the only thing ultimately they could do to get him to do more of what they need him to do and what we need him to do is to impeach him and then eventually remove him if the senate agrees to remove him after the house impeaches him. there's little other recourse that the congress has. he is the executive branch, chief administrator, chief bureaucrat, chief executive to carry out the policies. if he doesn't want to do them, or turn them in a different direction, presidents often do that, actually. >> let's talk about the other topic that is dominating the news this week, the mass shooting at the high school in parkland, florida. president trump visited victims and first responders following the massacre, and today he spoke with the parkland mayor. he also tweeted this, very sad that the fbi missed all of the many signals sent out by the

florida school shooter. this is not acceptable. they are spending too much time trying to prove russian collusion with the trump campaign. there is no collusion. get back to the basics, and make us all proud. >> i knew he was trying to connect the two. i knew he would try to connect the two. and it's despicable in my view that he would do that. instead he should stop underfunding the fbi. he should bring in more funds, rather than giving tax cuts to the superrich like he did in this plan just passed by him and the congress and bring the funds in to hire more law enforcement or fbi agents, more school safety measures, like having checks, you know, real safety checks with metal detectors in schools, as well as background checks. and stopping those with a mental illness from owning or from having these guns. in fact, he reversed an obama era ruling just a year ago, when president obama made it more difficult for those with mental illness to be able to purchase a gun, trump rescinded that

executive order. just the opposite of what he's talking the other direction. so i think that was very raw for him to bring in the fbi and blame them for what happened there. although they -- the fbi was informed that this particular shooter had put something on facebook saying that he wanted to become the next professional school shooter. and so the fbi, you would think, would respond. but then again they may be understaffed and not enough of them to do that. as many cases with law enforcement today. >> right. they did admit a mistake in not following up on that. the president has not mentioned guns in all of this. and many lawmakers haven't either. vigils were held this weekend with students calling out lawmakers over gun laws in the united states. let's listen. >> if you don't do anything to prevent this from continuing to occur, that number of gunshot victims will go up, and the number that they are worth will go down! and we will be worthless to you. to every politician who is taking donations from the nra, shame on you.

we know that they're claiming that there are mental health issues, and i am not a psychologist, but we need to pay attention to the fact that this isn't just a mental health issue. he wouldn't have harmed that many students with a knife! >> i'm a high school senior who three days ago was worried about which of my friends were going to receive flowers for valentine's down. i was focused on what i was going to be wearing to prom one week ago. my main concerns were my grades, college acceptance and my social life. now i'm a high school senior who is worried about which memorials i need to place flowers at. now i'm focused on what clothes i can wear so that i can run away from gun fire. my main concerns are funerals, gun control, and whether or not i'm going to be shot wherever i go. my innocence, our innocence, has been taken from us. >> the students are brave, they're outspoken, and they're going directly to lawmakers.

could this be the massacre that's a tipping point? >> it certainly could. especially if you have students who are so aware now. it's heartbreaking to hear them and also encouraging to hear them come out with a real solution that it is gun control. we know statistically that where the states that have a high rate of gun ownership have far more gun related deaths. states with a lower rate of gun ownership there's lower gun related deaths as are true of nations across the world. we have to have much stricter gun relations. students are chanting this now. when students speak up, things can really happen. and i'm very encouraged by these young women, and also men, for speaking out and saying we need our politicians to respond to us, we will never make the next generation if you let this happen and continuously happen. don't forget it's also making them very nervous. stressed out. how can they focus on their studies? so many ramifications. as these school shootings have been going. 17 of them this year alone, so far. >> right. and churches, and concerts, it's an epidemic in this country.

we'll see and see if these students can make a difference to try to make this country safer. professor peter matthews, thank you. we appreciate it. >> thank you. we continue to learn more about the confessed gunman nikolas cruz. he's due back in court monday. defense attorneys say he will plead guilty, if he can avoid the death penalty. as of now, prosecutors are not ruling that out. we are also hearing from a friend of cruz's who says cruz actually joked about school shootings. >> what did he say about school shootings? >> he would -- he would joke because he would be looking at photos, and he would joke about -- he would joke about the photos and stuff. i really want to be there for him. i really did. i wish -- i felt like i could have stopped it. and i know it wasn't my fault. but i felt like i could have stopped it. i could have been there for him. 17 people wouldn't have lost their lives.

>> feel for that young man there. there were other signs cruz posted threats. someone called the fbi last month, warning the shooter owned guns, and wanted to kill. the bureau never followed up on that. and police were repeatedly called to his home over the past few years because of his violent outbursts. many within that high school community remain in shock at this point. the principal of the school, ty thompson, posted this emotional message to his students. >> i promise you, i will hug each and every one of you, as many times as you need, and i will hold you as long as you need me to for all 3300 of you and your families, and we will get through this together. our community is strong, our students are strong, we will persevere in these trying times. >> we continue to learn more about the victims and their bravery in the face of this

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and welcome back to cnn "newsroom." two palestinian teenagers in gaza were killed in an israeli airstrike saturday. according to the palestinian ministry of health and palestinian news agency. israel says it carried out a large-scale attack in retaliation after an explosive device detonated along the gaza border, wounding four israeli soldiers. earlier. israeli prime minister

benjamin netanyahu says iran is seeking to dominate the world through aggression and terror, and he claims it's developing ballistic missiles that would reach deep into europe, and the u.s. his comments made just moments ago in front of top diplomats attending the security conference in munich, germany. cnn's nic robertson is also in munich covering this story for us and he's been following developments at the conference. and now we have benjamin netanyahu making very strong assertions about iran. nic? >> natalie, this perhaps the strongest speech we've heard here at the munich security council. it's been interesting to learn that prime minister benjamin netanyahu hasn't just arrived here like some leaders to give his speech. he's been here for three days, having bilateral meetings ahead of this speech. this was, as i say, a very strong speech. it was very critical of iran. he showed a map of how he said,

as isis is defeated, throughout the middle east, that iran is moving in, that iran's sheer islam is, in effect, he said, iran is trying to spread that around the world, a threat to the region, a threat to the world, to air rabs, as well as israelis. >> we're on the path to the rule of islam worldwide. that means right here, too. this is, in my judgment, the greatest threat to our world. not just to israel. not just to our arab neighbors. not just to muslims far and wide. but to you, as well. because once armed with nuclear weapons, iran's gregs will be unchecked and it will accomplish the entire world. >> but he also explained very specifically about iran in syria saying that they wanted to develop naval bases, military

bases inside syria. he even brandished a piece of what he said was an iranian drone that was shot down as it flew over israel. israel in the past couple of weeks, there was a suggest escalation in the return of fire by israel to that incident. they sent fighter jets over syria to target what he said were iranian sites. iranian military sites inside syria. and other sites, as well. and he said that israel was in no doubt that it would act against iran, both in syria, and perhaps in iran itself. this is how he said that. >> israel will not allow iran's regime to put a noose of terror around our neck. we will act without hesitation to defend ourselves. and we will act, if necessary, not just against iran's proxies that are attacking us, but against iran itself.

>> but to put that in some kind of context on friday i met with the u.n. secretary-general. his biggest concern about syria was the potential for the escalation of a conflict there through actions by israel against iran's interests inside syria. it's a very big concern that's getting a lot of discussion in the background. perhaps not so much in the formal panels here, but this issue of israel's concerns about iran's growing influence in syria, a big, big issue and topic here. >> all right, thank you, nic robertson for us live in munich. well, iran right now is dealing with a domestic tragedy. a plane carrying 66 people has reportedly crashed in central iran in an area known for its difficult terrain and weather. and that's why we brought in our meteorologist ivan cabrera to talk about what they're doing. they haven't even been able to find this airplane. >> no. and i think once they do they're going to have a very hard time

getting first responders there because of the terrain, and also because of the weather. it's not cooperating. in fact, we're snowing there and we're talking about gusty winds, as well. as we check in this flight was supposed to get to yasuj about 550 kilometer flight, right? this is not the actual flight path but i've just drawn this line so you can get perspective. there's tehran. this is the area, we're thinking north of semirom, about 100 kilometers to the north of that area. very mountainous terrain. it's going to be very difficult. i want to show you the satellite perspective there. there's iraq and there's an area of low pressure. that's pumping in a lot of moisture across the region here. we always look at weather when we have events like this and we certainly always say that it's going to take awhile before we determine whether weather was a cause. certainly it was not helping if the aircraft had gotten into trouble. we had very low visibility and we had snowfall in the mountainous terrain, as well. as the system continues pushing to the east, this is going to take about another 12 to 24

hours to really clear out of here. and so, we've already gotten word that helicopters are being grounded and not being allowed to get into the region because of the visibility. so this is going to be quite precarious here i think in the next 12 to 24 hours before we get a break in the weather. by the way, this is for yasuj, iran. that's the destination area. you go up higher and you're going to have much colder temperatures. which is exactly, by the way, i want to update you on the northeast, if you're flying into the u.s., you should be okay today, getting into new york. but it has been snowing from new york into boston, accumulations of several centimeters. anywhere from 4 to 7 inches has fallen. this winter storm warnings will be gone by the time we get into 7:00 a.m. as the storm begins to pullal way. as i've been mentioning here, you can either wait to shovel the snow that has fallen across this region or you can, well, just wait a few days. we're talking about some mighty warm temperatures on the way the next few days. in fact, temperatures are going to climb from the 30s to the 40s, to we're not going to stop until we get to 70s. how about that?

this is in fahrenheit for our good friends in the u.s. and it is going to be quite something here. i think we're going to probably have the chance of tying up to 60 record highs by tuesday afternoon. this is the time of year the seasons begin to fight, and sometimes spring wins out. >> we'll take the spring any day. >> absolutely. >> all right, ivan, thank you. coming up here, u.s. airstrikes in syria. dozens of russian fighters are dead and a putin ally, who is now facing charges in robert mueller's russia investigation into the united states. we will have a live report on how this all may be linked. coming up. we're ready for you. ♪ introducing new elvive protein recharge leave-in conditioner. in just one use, leave your hair with 97% less breakage.

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welcome back to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. you're watching cnn "newsroom" live from atlanta. i'm natalie allen. here are our top stories. in iran, at least 20 rescue teams have now been deployed to the area where a passenger plane reportedly crashed. emergency officials say the plane had 66 people on board, and was headed south from tehran. difficult weather conditions are hampering the search. u.s. national security adviser h.r. mcmaster says the federal indictment of 13 russians leaves no doubt that moscow meddled in the 2016 election. but u.s. president donald trump fired back, tweeting, general mcmaster forgot to say that the results of the 2016 election were not impacted or changed by the russians. survivors of wednesday's school shooting in florida are demanding tougher gun laws. they held this rally alongside supporters in fort lauderdale on saturday.

many of these high schoolers said they're outraged at the national rifle association, and urged voters to kick out lawmakers to take campaign donations from the organization. 13 people in mexico were killed when a helicopter crashed friday night. all the victims were on the ground. officials inside the helicopter who were surveying earthquake damage all survived. the aircraft was attempting to land when it crashed. there are reports u.s. airstrikes have killed dozens of russian contractors in northern syria. but the kremlin is refusing to say anything about it. and that's not all. the trail leads to a putin ally, who was one of 13 russian operatives charged with meddling in the u.s. presidential election. let's sort this out with cnn's fred pleitgen. he's live for us in moscow. and certainly, fred, these are two separate issues that russia doesn't seem to want to address.

>> you're absolutely right. two separate issues but they all lead back to the same man. yevgeny prigozhin, pretty much the main person indicted among the 13 by the special counsel robert mueller. however, a militia that's fighting for russia in eastern syria, that's also linked to him, as well as an oil company that would have benefited if the assault by those forces against u.s. backed forces would have been a success. let's have a look at this web that's going on. images you won't find on russian state media. a grieving mother. her son ruslan killed in syria working for a private security company during an ill-fated attack on american-backed forces. online network current time visited her at her home. >> are they not people? they obviously went to fight, to help. even before the money, because

of poverty, because there are no jobs. >> cnn has identified several of the russians killed on the night of february 7th. they were employed by a russian security company called wagner, and were part of a force strike to take a gas field held by u.s.-backed fighters and american troops in eastern syria. u.s. warplanes, helicopters, and artillery, killed more than 100 of the attackers before the rest fled. sources we've been speaking to say many russians probably dozen, were either killed or badly wounded. one source who visited a military hospital says many of the wagner contractors who survived have what he called horrendous wounds and he called all of it a massacre. but just why the attack took place at all comes down to oil and money. according to the u.s. treasury wagner is led by dmitri the continue, seen here meeting vladimir putin. he's under u.n. sanctions because of wagner's activities in ukraine. he has a long association with a

russian oligarch called yevgeny prigozhin who is close to the kremlin. the u.s. believes prigozhin's corporation bankrolled the troll factory involved in meddling in the 2016 u.s. election. another of his many companies is called evro polis. it has an office in damascus and a deal with the assad regime. according to a contract examined by cnn, evro polis gets a quarter of revenues from oil and gas fields that are recaptured on behalf of the syrian government. wagner does the fighting, and ef ra polis gets the oil. ruslan leviev, an activist whose group monitors the russian role in syria says prigozhin's empire is extensive. >> translator: a group of companies controlled by prigozhin includes many well-known to u.s. structures, one of the most famous projects is the troll factory that specialized in propaganda and informational war. it's the wagner private military company which was initially formed by his personal security guys.

dmitri utkin used to work in prigozhin's security service. >> last year prigozhin denied being linked to wagner. his company saying quote, we do not have any information about this organization. cnn's efforts to reach prigozhin and wagner were unsuccessful. for its part the russian government is also reluctant to talk about last week's incident. which is of no comfort to the families of these and other men killed in the syrian desert. and there still aren't really any numbers as to how many russians were possibly killed in that attack that took place. but we do see, natalie, on social media, more and more family members, more and more organizations, coming forward and not just talking about the fact that their relatives are either missing or possibly have been killed, but also demanding answers from the russian government, which they don't seem to be willing to give. at least not at this point, natalie. >> well they certainly deserve those answers. we hope it happens. thank you, fred pleitgen for us

there in moscow. the husband of murdered uk parliament member joe cox is stepping down from his charities amid sexual misconduct claims. in 2016 jo cox died after being shot and stabbed near one of her constituency offices. her husband, brendan cox, set up charities in her memory after her killing. and now he has, though, resigned from them, after at least two allegations of sexual impropriety were made public by uk media. cox tweeted earlier, last week i decided to step down from my public roles to face up to mistakes i made several years ago while at save the children. i apologize to people i offended or upset at the time. my actions were never malicious, but they were, at times, inappropriate. i take responsibility for my actions, and will hold myself to a higher standard in the future. coming up here, one of the most famous olympic skiers in the world is having to deal with online haters.

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gone. now that this family has turned over their land to chile, creating a park the size of switzerland. from snow-capped peaks, to sweeping grasslands, these dramatic swaths of chile's wild terrain are now one of conservation's biggest success stories. >> right now, i'm looking at the northern ice cap of chile. that falls down into the river, which is the largest river in chile. and then i'm looking out toward the 764,000 acres of this new national park. it's a great feeling. >> reporter: in late january, kristine tompkins signed over more than 400,000 hectares to the chilean government in what's believed to be the largest private land donation to a country in history. chile added more than 3 million hectares to that, forming a newly designated parkland that's roughly the size of switzerland. open to the public to explore.

the handover comes after more than 20 years of planning by kristine and her late husband doug. slowly acquiring large chunks of chile's wildlands. >> some of it's just opportunistic, looking for areas that are biologically important. and areas that were for sale. and little by little, we just began to patch what became several new national parks together. >> reporter: the u.s. nationals were an unusual mix of powerful magnates, and passionate conservationists. he was an avid outdoorsman. the founder of apparel behemoth north face, and esprit, she the chief executive of outdoor clothing brand patagonia. >> there was a lot of skepticism about it. because, we are two foreigners buying up large tracts of land, saying it was for conservation, and eventually to create a national park, but we just felt like if we keep going, and do

those things we said we were going to do, that eventually, the skepticism and the negativity would pass to the side. >> reporter: despite resistance to what some viewed as an infringement on local businesses, the tompkins' plan came to fruition last month. sadly, doug tompkins could not be there to witness it. he died in a kayaking accident in his beloved chile in 2015. >> i think in some ways, this big, audacious vision of doug's to create these new national parks was the thing that probably kept me in one piece when he died so suddenly. he left us with so much. >> reporter: in carrying out her husband's legacy, kristine hopes the world will recognize the importance of protecting this vast wild place for years to come. >> you have to look at these things in terms of 100 or 200 years, and not as necessarily where are they headed in the

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news for the rest, the 28-year-old in such dominant form still has favorite event to come, that is the slalom on thursday. so now the question is, can he make it three from three? a very, very different olympics experience for hirscher, though. as i said than his two previous games where he failed to medal. but they do say, don't they, that you learn a lot from a person about how they react to defeat. and former gold medalist lindsey vonn hasn't had to deal with finishing sixth in the women's super g yesterday but she's also had a barrage of abuse on social media to deal with. you may remember that vonn told cnn in an interview at the end of last year that she wouldn't accept an invitation to the white house from president trump if she was to receive one. and it seems his supporters really have not forgotten it. the 33-year-old tweeted about her frustration at her performance, and then received a host of replies, celebrating, reveling, really, in her defeat.

we'll be hoping her skiing does the talking when she goes for gold in the downhill on tuesday. the day's other golds have both gone to norway. braaten in the men's ski slopestyle and the norwegian team in the cross-country 4x10 kilometer relay. that moved them ahead of germany, to the top of the medal table. wonder how long they'll stay there, natalie? >> we shall see. so i hope that pesky wind stays away so we can see more great skiing. thanks so much amanda davies for us there. well the time's up campaign has been a driving force at hollywood's awards shows this year and it looks as though the baftas will follow suit. the bafta film awards will be announced sunday in london. celebrities there plan to show solidarity with their counterparts at the golden globes, and black out the red carpet to stand against gender inequality and sexual harassment. meantime, five movies are up for the key best film award.

they are, "me by your name." "darkest hour." "dunkirk". "the shape of water" and "three bill boards outside ebbing, missouri." "darkest hour" tells the story of prime minister winston churchill during the early days of world war ii. actor gary oldman has been heralded for his remarkable performance as the british icon. but can't take all the credit. cnn's nick glass talks to the makeup artist behind the transformation. >> when. how many more does it take? you cannot reason with a tiger when your head is in its mouth. >> so how did they do it? how was winston churchill reincarnated so convincingly by gary oldman? from the face of it, even in the shadows, the actor and

politician don't exactly look alike. >> gary's face, for example, like gary looks like a greyhound. but churchill is like a bulldog. >> the extraordinary transformation from greyhound to bulldog began here in an artist studio in los angeles. kazohir ouchlt is a sculpture of hyperrealist faces. he likes to recreate historical figures, the bigger the better. but once upon a time he used to work in the movies. >> i needed not only a makeup artist, but i needed an artist. i felt, for this. and i remember saying there's only one man, and kazuhiro, and my plan was really contingent on kazuhiro.

>> so not buttering it up. >> kazu, as he's known, created the makeup for jim carrey in how the grinch stole christmas, and for brad pitt in the curious case of benjamin button. but in 2012, he decided to leave the industry. >> i love to do special effects makeup, but, it was stressing me too much to the level that i felt like i'm shortening my life. >> so gary oldman had to coax kazu back just for this one movie. >> i never had opportunity to do historical character in a film, like a main character, with the makeup, and i felt like, okay, well this could be once in a lifetime. >> under the liquid resin, gary oldman with a shaven head, this process gave kazu the mold for life cast and from that he began to design the prosthetics.

>> to the neck it's like a hood piece that goes over his head. >> he did the tests on oldman himself. everything like real skin, including a prosthetic adam's apple. in all he designed six pieces, including cheeks, nose, and chin. kazu left the meticulous daily application to british colleagues. the process took them more than three hours every day, for 48 consecutive shooting days. kazu made a series of wigs from baby hair and angora rabbit fur. >> the great thing about gary is, like, he just disappears. after ten minutes, i start to forget about the makeup and start to forget about the gary, because it's just became churchill. and that's really rare. >> nick glass for cnn, with kazu tsuji. >> remarkable. thank you for watching. i'm natalie allen. our top stories, right after this.

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