Saturday Mornings International News Review: The Saudi Maritime Alliance, Japan’s Spy Agency, Epstein Files, Trump's Staff Flees

🌍On MoneyFM 89.3’s International News Review, Journalist Timothy McLaughlin joins Saturday Mornings Show host Glenn van Zutphen. Scam syndicates aren’t just a regional menace anymore, they’re industrial‑scale operations with human trafficking at the core. As Tim puts it, “victims all the way down.” With this week's Forest City raid netting 335 arrests just across the Causeway in Johor Bahru, the conversation digs into how these networks are mutating, decentralising, and slipping into apartment blocks instead of compounds and why Southeast Asia has become a frontline for the FBI. Then it’s straight into the geopolitical firestorm: Saudi Arabia’s 14‑nation maritime alliance, the forgotten but still‑lethal Red Sea conflict, and how Trump’s Iran war has dragged global shipping, Asian mariners, and petrol prices into the blast radius. From Japan’s first intelligence agency since WWII to the chaotic churn inside Trump’s administration, plus the still‑explosive Epstein files.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.