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This week, Indonesia's President Prabowo Subianto believed he was a private conversation with US President Donald Trump at the Gaza peace summit in Egypt.

However, a live microphone situation captured Prabowo requesting Trump to arrange a meeting with his son Don Jr, who hold positions at the Trump organization.

It represented only one in a series of gaffes committed by world leaders when they assume no one can hear them.

Here are five other memorable errors:

Organ Transplants and Everlasting Life

During a defense ceremony in Beijing in early autumn, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russia's head Vladimir Putin were recorded discussing organ transplants as a approach for prolonging life.

"Human organs can be continuously replaced. The more you extend your life, the younger you become, and it's possible to even achieve immortality," the Russian translator was recorded stating.

Xi, who was not visible, answered in Chinese: "Some predict that in the current era humans may live to 150 years old."

A conversation heard between China's leader Xi Jinping and Russian leader Vladimir Putin

'Water Lapping at Your Door'

Former Australian immigration minister Peter Dutton came under fire in 2015 when he joked about the plight of residents in the Pacific facing rising sea levels.

Dutton was conversing with then-prime minister Tony Abbott, who had just returned from climate change talks with regional heads in Port Moresby.

Observing how a meeting about refugees was running on "Cape York time", Abbott replied: "There was a bit of that up in Port Moresby."

Dutton added: "Schedules become irrelevant when you're about to have the ocean reaching your home."

The comments sparked outrage from Pacific Islands and climate activists, while the political opponents demanded Dutton to apologise.

Peter Dutton recorded making jokes with Tony Abbott about rising sea levels

'Bigoted Woman'

As Labour prime minister Gordon Brown was on the trail in 2010, he faced a constituent who questioned him on immigration and the economy.

Still wired up to a Sky news microphone when he got into his vehicle, Brown was heard saying: "That was a disaster – they should never have put me with that individual. Who thought of that? Ridiculous."

Asked what she had said, he replied: "All topics, she was just a prejudiced person."

The scandal received extensive coverage for weeks and Brown ultimately lost the election.

'I Can't Stand Netanyahu. He's a Liar.'

Ex-American leader Barack Obama was in discussion at the international conference in Cannes in 2011 with then French president Nicolas Sarkozy when their comments about Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu were captured by a active recording device.

Sarkozy said: "I cannot bear Netanyahu. He's a liar."

According to a account from a translator cited by Reuters, Obama replied: "You're fed up with him but I have to deal with him frequently than you."

'Total ***hole'

A vintage hot-mic moment from then US presidential candidate George W. Bush happened as he made a disparaging remark about a journalist from The New York Times.

The GOP candidate was didn't realize that a recording device was active when he leaned over to Dick Cheney at a political event and remarked, "That's Adam Clymer, major league asshole from the New York Times."

Cheney answered: "Oh yeah, he is, big time."

Bush at a Labour rally in 2000