BBC News with Fiona MacDonald

The British Prime Minister David Cameron has hailed the London one-day international conference on Somalia as a "turning point" towards greater stability and prosperity. He said agreements had been reached on major issues, such as security,

piracy

, humanitarian assistance and Somalia's political process. Somalia's Prime Minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali said he'd like to see air strikes against the Islamist militant group al-Shabab, which recently joined forces with al-Qaeda.

"We welcome the targeted air strikes against al-Qaeda in Somalia, and reason being al-Qaeda in Somalia is not a Somali problem; it is a global problem, and it has to be addressed globally. So, therefore, we have to have a common strategy against this common enemy." Al-Shabab condemned the meeting.

Dozens of Syrians are reported to have been killed in new attacks against opposition

strongholds

across the country by the security forces. Activists say that 13 members of one family have been killed in the village of Kfartoun near Hama. Homs, Deraa and Deir al-Zour have also

come under attack

.

A French journalist wounded in the Syrian city of Homs on Wednesday has made a video appeal asking to be

evacuated

to Lebanon. Edith Bouvier, a

freelance

journalist working for Le Figaro newspaper, says her

femur

is broken. Doctors looking after her said she had life-threatening injuries. The paper's foreign editor Philippe Gelie told the BBC she needed proper medical attention.