"You're not paying attention to us": Afghan interpreters stage hunger strike in Ottawa

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Despite promises for aid, many former Afghan interpreters believe Ottawa has forgotten them. More than 100 are staging a hunger strike on Parliament Hill, as their loved ones remain stuck in Taliban-led Afghanistan.

"We're asking the government to find safe pathways for our families to emigrate from Afghanistan," Ahmad Sayed, a former Afghan interpreter and organizer of the demonstration in Ottawa, told Global News.

"The process is very slow. The government promised they would bring our families in the first two or three months of 2022 but we don't see any improvement.

We don't see our families." Abigail Bimman reports on their sadness and frustration, and how federal officials are responding.