[John Vause, Cnn Anchor:] Hello. Welcome to our viewers joining us from all around the world. I'm John Vause. It is great to have you with us. You're watching "CNN Newsroom." Ahead this hour, 20 times more deadly than the flu spreading around the world with a number of confirmed coronavirus patients in South Korea alone tripling in just days. Intelligence officials warn again Russia meddling in U.S. elections to help Trump win a second term. Now, we know why the acting director of intelligence was ousted. U.S. superstar is 50 now as she turns 50. Supermodel Naomi Campbell shares her thoughts on age equality on the tabloids. China news agency is reporting the coronavirus is now spreading within the prison system. More than 500 confirmed cases in prisons in three provinces, including Hubei. The overall death toll is well past 2,200. The vast majority are in Hubei province. Just 11 fatalities were not on the mainland. Of the 76,000 confirmed cases, more than 1,200 are outside of China. The number of cases in South Korea has tripled, most of them linked to a single church. Beyond mainland China, the virus is now being confirmed in at least 29 countries and territories. In Ukraine, an evacuation flight from Wuhan, China with more than 90 people on board was met by angry protesters who clashed security forces who try to block roads. CNN's Blake Essig is in Yokohama, Japan. The quarantine for the Princess Diamond cruise ship has now officially ended. That was on Wednesday, but it will be at least a few more days before they get everyone off that ship. They must be eager to leave.
[Blake Essig, Cnn Correspondent:] You know, John, I actually talked to a Canadian couple who said that they have been on the ship for 29 days before the 14-day quarantine even started. They actually both tested positive for the coronavirus. Now, they are having they are currently in a hospital about 300 kilometers away from Tokyo where they are trying to recover and then hopefully get home at some point. That has been the story from a lot of passengers on the ship. They have been on it for a very long time. They are very eager to get off. They thought that they everybody would be off today, but according to a Princess spokesperson, that is not going to happen today. Hopefully, all the passengers will have disembarked tomorrow. And according to the Princess spokesperson, the problem has been that there have been several issues. Even today, the Japanese health ministry has come out and said that anybody who has come into contact with somebody who has tested positive for the coronavirus, their clock actually restarts. So even if the people on board have tested negative, their clock has restarted to the last point where they came into contact with somebody who tested positive, so they either have to stay on board the ship, potentially, or go onshore here, and then go to a government health- run facility to finish out their quarantine. So, there were a lot of potential issues regarding the idea of how effective this quarantine truly was. We talked to infectious disease specialists, one of them was on the ship, said that this was not a true in a sense a quarantine. In fact, a failed quarantine as what he called it. He said he was very scared. We actually also talked to people on the streets who are also concerned about the way that Japan has dealt with these passengers aboard the Diamond Princess. Take a listen.
[Unidentified Male:] The Japanese health ministry failed to deal with this problem. They didn't have a clear measure to tackle the outbreak of infectious diseases.
[Unidentified Female:] I think the measure the government took made things worse and the lack of information was an issue, as well. It was totally misjudged of the government that thousands of people were trapped in a small space, quarantined for a long time.
[Essig:] John, when we talk about just how effective this so-called "quarantine," only time will tell as passengers continue to disembark. We were there earlier today watching passengers come off the ship from Hong Kong, as they boarded buses on the way to the airport, head back home, where they will then undergo 14-day quarantine. That has been the case with a bunch of countries around the world, including the United States and Canada. John?
[Vause:] Blake, thank you. Blake Essig is there live for us in Yokohama, Japan. I appreciate it. In South Korea, a church congregation has been linked to a sharp rise in new coronavirus cases. CNN's Paula Hancocks has details.
[Paula Hancocks, Cnn International Correspondent:] The number of novel coronavirus cases has more than tripled in South Korea since Tuesday. The country also is suffering its first fatality. A cluster of cases has emerged in the city of Daegu, a few hours south of the capital Seoul. In particular, among those who attended services are the religious congregation. One infected person attended the services. It has been described by Korea CDC as a "super spreading event."
[Kim Gang-lip, Vice Minister, South Korea's Ministry Of Health And Welfare:] With the cooperation of the religious group, we will determine its devotees and those who attended the service. We are promptly investigating all people who came in contact with the patient.
[Hancocks:] U.S. forces in Korea say any military personnel who attended the services are now on mandatory quarantine. Nonessential travel today has been prohibited and off-base travel minimized. The mayor of Daegu took it one step further.
[Kwon Young-jin, Mayor Of Daegu, South Korea:] Citizens, please refrain from going outside as much as possible today. Please wear your masks, even in your homes if possible.
[Hancocks:] Singapore, a city state of some five and a half million people, also has one of the highest numbers of confirmed cases outside mainland China. Many of the recent patients have no travel history to China, showing an increase in local transmission. Government workers in Hong Kong have been told to work from home until March 1st to help social distancing. Private companies are encouraged to do the same. Schools are closed until at least mid-March. Another fatality in Hong Kong this week is a 70-year-old man who was already suffering from chronic diseases. Outside of mainland China, there are now well over 1,100 confirmed cases in 29 countries and territories, stretching far beyond Asia. Deaths have also been recorded in Europe and the Middle East. Paula Hancocks, CNN, Seoul.
[Vause:] Germany is once again being confronted by the rise of far- right extremism. The horrific end result of that hate, nine people were gunned down in a mass shooting near Frankfort. The victims all had migrant backgrounds, but some were born in Germany. That apparently had nothing to the government. The prosecutors say they had deep-rooted racist views. CNN's Melissa Bell reports.
[Melissa Bell, Cnn Paris Correspondent:] Mohammed first heard rounds of gunfire. Then, he saw a man entering the bar.
[Unidentified Male:] He shot straight to the head of everyone he saw. He lied down and then he fired at all of us. I hit behind the wall. As I was moving to hide, he shot me in the arm. I lied on somebody, somebody lied on me, and somebody else lied on him. We became a pile.
[Bell:] This is the man now identified as 43-year-old Tobias R, who police say shot nine people and wounded six others in two shisha bars in Hanau on Wednesday night. The diverse community in harsh of Hanau is shock by the attack.
[Unidentified Male:] It was a massacre, a killing spree. There was blood everywhere. People were lying on the ground. One of the young guys took a bullet in the shoulder, but he was taken to the hospital and he made it out. He managed to escape.
[Bell:] The police tracked the suspected gunman's vehicle to his apartment shortly afterwards. He along with his mother was found dead, a gun by his side. Investigators are treating the massacre as an act of terror. Prosecutors say the attacker's homepage posted videos to spread deeply racist ideas and conspiracy theories.
[Angela Merkel, Chancellor Of Germany:] There are many indications at the moment that the perpetrator acted on right- wing extremist, racist motives out of hatred towards people of other origins, religion or appearance.
[Bell:] The bloodshed cost Germany into mourning with condemnations coming from around the world.
[Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President Of Turkey:] I believe that the German authorities will make every necessary effort to throw light on all aspects of the attack.
[Bell:] French President Emmanuel Macron tweeted that he supported Merkel in the fight for our values and the protection of our democracies. Germany's far-right extremism is on the rise. Only last week, a dozen people were arrested, suspected of having been plotting large-scale attacks on mosques.
[Merkel:] Racism is a poison. Hatred is a poison. This poison exists in our society and it is to blame for already far too many crimes.
[Bell:] It isn't just the German political class that have come out and condemned what happened in Hanua on Wednesday night but also ordinary residents, ordinary Germans who have come up and a with great deal of emotion this evening, attended this vigil that has turned into something of a demonstration, a demonstration against racism and the sorts of attacks. This is the third far-right attack in the country in less than a year that we have been seen happening over and over again. This, they are saying with their placards and their candles and their words here tonight, is not the Germany that we know, it is not the Germany that we love. Melissa Bell, CNN, Hanau.
[Vause:] Authorities in Britain say stabbing at 11 mosques was not an act of terrorism. The alleged attacker was arrested by police after being pinned down by worshippers at a mosque in Regent's Park on Thursday afternoon. CNN's Phil Black has more.
[Phil Black, Cnn Correspondent:] Emergency services got a call just after 3:00 p.m., reporting a stabbing here at London Central Mosque. Police and paramedics arrived soon after. They found a man in his seventies with a stab wound to his shoulder and a 29-year-old man pinned to the ground by other worshippers. Witnesses say afternoon prayers were already underway when the younger man suddenly pulled a knife and attacked the older man from behind. He was wrestled to the ground by other people nearby. Witnesses say he did not say a word, resist or fight back. The victim is well-known here. He leads the call to prayer at this mosque. He was taken to hospital. His jury isn't life-threatening. Witnesses say the younger man, the suspect, has been attending this mosque for several months. Police are working to understand the motive. They do not believe it was terror-related at this stage. Phil Black, CNN, London.
[Vause:] Well, jail time for the political adviser and longtime Trump friend Roger Stone. But still ahead, will we ever see the inside of a prison cell? Also to come, why Donald Trump lashed out after an intelligence briefing to lawmakers on Russian efforts to interfere in the next U.S. election?