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Its coverage of the lead up to the iraq war and the death of the government scientist david kelly. in response newswatch was established as part of an initiative to make bbc news more accountable. but viewers regularly question whether it is truly fulfilling that role. here's howard price. how would you answer that? well, we obviously don't take the view that 99% of the time were always right. and i will admit we don't always get everything right. we actually, i think, executives from news do appear on newswatch quite frequently.

There is no point to us. we can't charge a licence fee off everybody in the uk if we are not impartial. it's beholden on all of our staff to remember that and to act accordingly in that way. stay with us again, fran. we want to talk about another of the principles behind bbc news which is accountability. we want to talk in fact a little bit about newswatch itself, this programme started in 2004 after the hutton inquiry which strongly criticised the bbc over its coverage of the lead up to the iraq war and the death of the government scientist, david kelly. in response newswatch was established ...