SBS Japanese Newsflash Wednesday 26 February

Treasurer Jim Chalmers has met with US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent in Washington DC in a bid to secure tariff exemptions. Nine people are dead after a record outbreak of a disease linked with heavy rain in far north Queensland.

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