the first built in an italian dockyard is more in southampton. >> on a still all morning, southampton welcomes a new queen. a 400 million pounds and investment, preparing to join her sisters than follow a historical tradition. >> as the war mother and children are under need that the skyscraper, soon to come to life with a touch of a hand -- >> she stood behind a mother at the launch of the first ship -- the queen elizabeth was the largest passenger ship ever built. a retired from service, the first queen elizabeth was reduced to a halt by a disastrous fire in hong kong harbor. but her successor became, if anything, more famous. sailing 6 million miles and transporting 3000 troops to the falklands conflict. this nation -- the latest ocean giant was both an italian dockyard, where she acquired a godmother. she has been sailing on the queens for most of her life. >> the coinless is the ship and a godmother smashes the bottle on about -- the queen blesses the ship and the godmother smashes the bottle on about. >> tickets for this maiden voyage was not up and under a half an hour. the cru

bbc news, southampton. >> pavarotti said she had the voice of the century. dame joan sutherland said many fans would not disagree. the opera soprano and died in switzerland at 83. we look back on her life. [singing] >> joan sutherland singing "lucia di lamamour." the performance had a 19-minute standing ovation. she had grown up in sydney, where her mother encouraged her to sing. she thought she would be a wagnerian soprano. >> i would sing duets and trios and so on. i was not trained by my mother. she said she never taught me. but she was a great singer herself and i listened to her. i cannot remember when i cannot -- when i did not listen to her sing and imitate her. >> it was her husband and manager, a concert pianist, who encouraged her to sing the leiter, higher roles which best suited her voice. [singing] soon, she was appearing at all the world's top opera houses, performing show we coloratura bel canto roles in 18th and 19th century operas. >> i had such help. i would never have made the standard of anybody asking me to do "blue chia -- luci." >> the

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this is going to happen monday in southampton. seriously, look at this thing.gham palace of the high seas. >> 90,400-ton vessel, the second largest ever built by the line behind the six-year-old queen mary ii. christened monday. >> they said it cost like half a billion dollars to make. and it's taking a tour around the world in 2011. we should try to get tickets. >> 2,092-passenger vessel. very nice. maybe we'll get a ride, get a descount, something like that. thank you very much. have a great week, okay? >> you, too. >>> and we go to a cnn exclusive and i sneak preview of tomorrow's ""one of the united states' most important allies, hamid karzai, is asked about rumors that he's emotionally unstable, even manic depressive and bipolar. i want you to listen. >> his recent book, "obama's wars," bob woodward says that you were diagnose the as a manic depressive. he writes that sensitive intelligence reports on you claim you are sometimes delusional. sometimes don't take your medications. is that true? are you a manic depressive? do you take medication for it? >> th