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The French Foreign Minister demands a safe corridor to evacuate wounded journalists trapped in Homs, Syria. He says Friday's Tunis conference on Syria will press for humanitarian access to the country.

French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe is demanding Syria provide a safe way out of the country for three journalists wounded in the ongoing assault on Homs.

He called the violence in Syria "revolting" and "shameful" on Thursday while speaking at a news conference in London.

Syrian forces bombarded opposition districts in the city of Homs for the 20th day on Thursday, activists said, despite international outrage over the reported killing of more than 80 people on Wednesday.

Among the dead were two journalists, a French photographer and an American reporter.

France and Britain have demanded that three other Western journalists wounded in the strike on a house in Homs be given urgent medical care.

The worsening humanitarian situation in Homs and other embattled towns will dominate "Friends of Syria" talks in Tunis on Friday.

Juppe, who will be attending the Tunis talks said the conference will call for a Syrian army ceasefire to give rapid access to humanitarian aid.

[Alain Juppe, French Foreign Minister]:
"Our priority is to facilitate the delivery of humanitarian assistance and we have some proposals on the table to prepare the best way to deliver this assistance as quickly as possible if the regime accepts to open the country to the NGOs or to the Red Cross."

The United States, which so far has been against military intervention in Syria, has hinted that if a political solution were impossible it might have to consider other options.

But Juppe has flatly ruled out any talk of military intervention without a United Nations Security Council mandate.