There, where those signs are, a couple of hundred yards, its not an easy place forjournalists to go. Particularly when the subject of our investigation is the son of the president and someone very close to him. Hello. Accidents happen in government. People slip on banana skins. There are momentary lapses, or arguments that spill into the public domain. Events can catch cabinets by surprise. Thats normal. At a rate of one every few months. But then theres this government. Since the election knocked the confidence out of the Prime Ministerfive months ago, to many it has just lurched from one self inflicted wound to another. Public arguments over brexit are half of it, the harassment cases have piled on the pressure. But the coincidence of extra missteps has given this government a whiff of decay. And youre not meant to have that until youve been in power for a decade or more. Two particular things are exercising many mps right now. The foreign secretary giving the unhelpful impression that a british woman imprisoned in iran is guilty of crimes there. And the other is Development Secretary priti patel, who clearly tried to mislead the public about her activities in israel. This is a far more intense speculation this evening. An unlucky government, or a careless one. Nick watt reports. Day by day, piece by piece, the forces holding this government together are fracturing. There is an unmistakable air of weakness and fragility, as theresa may struggles to assert her authority. Youve now got five cabinet ministers the former defence secretary, the Current Defence secretary, the foreign secretary, the Development Secretary, and the first akrotiri, all now mired in serious controversies of one form or another. And in each case, the Prime Minister is unable to get a grip of it and unable to provide a sense of direction. And today, downing street was mopping up after not one but two cabinet ministers gave the Prime Minister grief of a highly sensitive security issues. We are going to work flat out. It took borisjohnson nearly an hour in the Commons Chamber to offer an apology for the loose language which may have added to the prison sentence in teheran handed down to the british iranian woman Nazanin Zaghari ratcliffe. Im sorry if any words of mine have been so taken out of context and misconstrued as to cause any kind of anxiety for the family of Nazanin Zaghari ratcliffe, of course i am. Of course i am. Shortly before the foreign secretarys appearance, one of prydie patels deputies had to explain why she held a series of official meetings in israel during her Summer Holiday without first notifying the Foreign Office or downing street. The secretary of state has been very clear and absolutely contrite in her statement yesterday. She recognises that of course she sure to have informed the Foreign Office before the visit, but she didnt. Downing street is doing little to disguise its frustration with the two wayward cabinet ministers. In the eyes of many ministers, borisjohnson and priti patel have both lived down expectations. The foreign secretary has caused heartache for the family of Nazanin Zaghari ratcliffe with his careless language, whilst the international Development Secretary has shown that even in the world of high diplomacy, she believes she can live by her own rules. The wider question is, there is no sense of direction, no sense of grip in any of these controversies coming from the Prime Minister, at a time when we really need a functioning cabinet and this affects our reputation around the world when we have such Important International negotiations at stake. This is really damaging for the whole country, notjust for the conservative party. Even loyal mps believe this has not been the goverments finest hour. Ive got to be honest about it, neither of these scenarios are ideal. Prydie patel, from what i can gather, did inform the Foreign Office, albeit whilst she was in israel on this visit. But in relation to the foreign secretary cosme comments, im not here to defend those comments. I think, you know, it is tricky and difficult to do that. What i think we should remember, though, is that the real criminals here are the Iranian Regime who are holding somebody, you know, against all natural justice, for the average over foreign countries. Battered by events and headstrong cabinet ministers, theresa mays government limps on. For the moment, it is intact. But the damage is taking its toll. Nick watt there. Accidents dont happen, they are caused, the old phrase goes. Nick watt is with me now. Next, its been a bad day for Boris Johnson. But a much worse one for priti patel, we gather, this evening. Quite a lot of speculation about her future. Thats right. She is still the International Developer and secretary. She recently arrived in the next few hours to africa for a long planned trip. But some very, very serious questions are being asked in the heart of government about priti patel and what actually she declared for this trip to israel. And priti patel will be very, very lucky if she is still in the gambit micro by the end of this week. I think the thinking is if she is still in the cabinet. If new details emerged about this visit, perhaps elements of this trip that she didnt declare fully to the Prime Minister, i think she will no longer be a member of the cabinet. That information has not yet been presented, it is not yet there are, as i understand it, at the highest levels of government. But they are thinking that if there is more information that wasnt the clare. Can use tag a cabinet minister whilst they are overseas on official business, what happens . Can you sack a cabinet minister. There would be a discussion between said, by criminals than the premise that, as i understand it. That information is not sitting in downing street, and it may not get there, but bit by bit more information is coming out. For example, the Prime Minister did not know, until our bbc colleaguejames landale revealed on the today programme this morning, that priti patel tried to change government policy on the golan heights. She saw the work that the Israeli Defence forces are doing in helping Syrian Refugees who come onto the golan heights. The uk government says the idf is doing very, very serious work. But of course, as alistair burt, her ministerial colleagues, said in the commons today, the uk cant help the Israeli Defence forces because the uk has never recognised the israeli annexation of the goal of heights. That sort of thing, there is more information that comes out, then it will be very difficult for her the annexation of the golan heights. In a few minutes, well talk to labours tulip siddiq. Nazanin Zaghari Ratcliffe is her constituent. She is currently injail in iraq, very important set of questions for borisjohnson in iran. But first, the conservative mp Nadhim Zahawi is here. He is a member of the Foreign Affairs select committee. Good evening to you. Im assuming you think its not possible to remain a secretary of state if you have lied and misled the public on this matter was ill and priti patel was on a family holiday paid for by herself. She met ministers as well as Many Charities and some very interesting start ups who are, you know, working in africa, which she is passionate about. She is in africa now. She took a working break. She is a workaholic, that is what she is like. The Foreign Office knew that whilst the trip was ongoing. They found out she was visiting. I think her apology, she was contrite about not going through the right procedures. Because you need to make sure that you do that. I didnt focus on the offence of breaking the ministerial code by going to israel and conducting your own foreign policy, i was focusing on the misleading of the public. She said, boris knew about the visit. The point is, the Foreign Office did know about this, boris knew about the trip. In fact, yesterday we were told he did become aware of it, but not in advance. Now, wouldnt you say that she was misleading the public, or even lying, when she said that boris did know about the trip . Well, that was her interview with the guardian. The guardian subsequently corrected that published every interview that she had. There was another set of misleading. She said, the stuff is out there, the stuff that is out there is it as far as im concerned. She hadnt at that stage mentioned that she had met the israeli Prime Minister on her holiday, you know, as one does. Did that slip her mind, or was she trying to mislead when she said that the stuff that is out there is it as forestry is concerned with the well, i think what we know already is that she had those meetings, the Foreign Office knew during her trip that those meetings. Im talking about the way that she tried to mislead the public. Do you think misleading the public is a sackable offence or not brazil and she apologised to the Prime Minister, and corrected all of that with a statement. You know, i think those things. Hang on, she apologised or corrected herself after it was discovered. She didnt correct it and say, by the way, ive accidentally misled you. If effectively, she came out when it was all in the public domain. Doesnt that mean what she was doing was trying to get away with minimising her breach of the ministerial code, quite a serious one, and then, when she is caught, she says, sorry, i miss spoke. That is a sackable offence, isnt it . Beverley hughes in 2004 went through a similar thing. Peter mandelson in the hindu decays, you didnt like he was is, rated, he didnt lie, he was exonerated, but people thought that he had lied and he had to resign. You are talking about these cases. Israel is one of our closest partners. This is not an enemy state that she was somehow having clandestine meetings with. The Foreign Office knew during this trip that she was having these visits. She has admitted the mistake of not following procedure and apologised for it. I somehow feel that some of this stuff is being drummed up because both priti patel and the foreign secretary of big beasts in the Brexit Campaign and there are remembers if you think, if we can take out these people and israel by derail the government. I will bring in tulip siddiq on this one. Nazanin Zaghari Ratcliffe is a constituent of yours. How damaging the comments that Boris Johnson made . Extremely damaging. My constituent has been imprisoned in iran for 18 years now. Shes been in solitary confinement, separated from her baby daughter and denied access to medical treatment. Borisjohnson, in front of the select committee, even though i have raised this case countless times in the last 18 months, and repeatedly said that my constituent was on holiday in iran, said that she was training journalists. I would expect our foreign secretary to know that basic facts of a very important case. His actual words were, he said, she was simply teaching people journalism, as i understand it, at the very limit. His defence is, he was saying, at the worst she was teaching journalism and even that doesnt justify putting him injail. I wonder if those words at the limit get him off, because he was meaning to Say Something along the lines of, you know, thats not my view, thats the view, and is not a dust of a geisha. Not a justification. That is absolutely not a good defence in my opinion. His words have been seized upon by the iranian judiciary system. If you look on their website, they have said that this shows clearly that this woman was not on holiday in iran. As a result, she could be facing fresh charges against her. We on this side of the world, especially the foreign secretary, should be getting our constituent back here at home in west hampstead, not increasing the charges against her. Ill tell you what id like, weve only got another minute, id like to get a comment from you both on whether this multiple sort of issues around harassment, borisjohnson, the foreign secretary, priti patel, is telling us there is some decay in this government. Tulip, is it a bigger vulnerability for this government . I think it shows the government is weak. The Prime Minister needs to take action quickly. But my focus this week is bringing my constituent back home, and the foreign secretary needs to retract his statement, fly out to iran, meet her, and bring her back to her house, where she belongs. A lot of people, even friends of the party, they are saying, we cant have five years of this, this just cant go wild. I think the Prime Minister has been very thoughtful in her speech to the cbi this week this cant go on. It was well received by the cbi. On boris, he has apologised and called his counterpart and sought reassurances. His words werent in any way affecting Nazanin Zaghari ratcliffe. Im glad julep wants to focus on higher, we should put herfront and centre of this. Im sad that the front bench on the other side were giggling as soon as Emily Thornberry finished her speech. You know, making political hay out of this. This will only encourage the ir gc, who was a real culprits, remember who the culprits are. They will enjoy this. The man is foreign secretary of our country. He should not be repeating them mendacious comments made by the Iranian Revolutionary guard, which is what he was doing in the select committee. He should know better. We need to leave it there. Thank you so much. We could talk a great deal longer about this. A former member of the Welsh Government who resigned last week in light of allegations made against him has been found dead. He is understood to have taken his own life. Carl seargent lost his job as cabinet secretary for communities and children last friday. He was suspended from labour after the first minister, carwynjones, learned of a number of alleged incidents involving women. The death has obviously been a great shock to members of the welsh assembly, who suspended proceedings this afternoon. Chris cook reports. There was rare consensus today in cardiff bay and throughout labour. Sadness at the death of Carl Sargeant who is believed to have taken his own life. The former welsh cabinet minister left his post last week pending an investigation into his conduct. Shocked, horrified and deeply sympathetic to his family and the statement they put out was that he was the glue that held them altogether and i can only think for the moment of the stress and horror they are going through. He was somebody who represented our party, worked hard to represent community and my deepest sympathies are with them. Carl sargeant held a range of post since being elected in 2003 culminating in a cabinet post for communities and children. He had been a member of the Welsh Government for ten years, he served as chief whip and then held a variety of sensitive political roles and i think it is fair to say that half the legislation roughly passed in the last six years would have been passed through his hands, some quite Ground Breaking stuff around Domestic Violence and future generations. Last week Carl Sargeant agreed to stand down from the welsh cabinet while labour investigated allegations about his behaviour. Carwynjones, the first minister, explained i asked by office to speak to the women involved to provide details of those incidents. As a result of the conversations ifelt i had no choice but to refer the matter to the party. The family asked me to speak on their behalf today. They do not want to dwell on the allegations that were made against him but clearly those have had an impact on his mental state in recent days and all of us who have been in contact with him have been worried. Friends, comrades, first of all a big thank you. We have heard concerns from high up within welsh labour about the treatment of Carl Sargeant why the claims were investigated. Friends say that this morning he only knew the outline of the allegations. Carl sargeant is survived by a widow and two children. Chris kirk. Over the last few days, weve had stories about lewis hamilton, Lord Ashcroft and the queen, all thrown up by the leak of the so called Paradise Papers documents which were obtained by the german newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung and shared with the International Consortium of investigativejournalists. The reporting has been led in the uk by bbc panorama and the guardian newspaper. There is no doubt as to which of todays Paradise Papers stories is getting most of the attention it is the one about Prince Charles, an undisclosed investment in a Sustainable Fore