Syria Bloodshed: 'Why Isn't World Helping Us?'

A Syrian-British activist has pleaded for the UN and US to stop the bloodshed in Syria as people in his neighbourhood prepare to die.

Blogger Danny, 22, has made a series of dramatic videos apparently shot in the Baba Amr region of Homs - a city struck by heavy shelling by government forces this week and where the army is believed to be preparing for a ground assault.

Explosions shake the streets as Danny walks around the area. It is a zone where Sky News' Stuart Ramsay has said people are getting ready to be killed in the fighting.

In one video in a hospital, Danny shows a two-year-old child who he says was killed after his home came under attack.

Danny says: "He got hit in his house. Is this what the UN is waiting for? Until there are no children left? Until they kill all the children and kill all the women.

"This child lost his brains, a bomb landed in his house, he lost his whole brains. Two children killed, him and his sister. What is the UN waiting for?

"This is Syria, Homs, Baba Amr, this is one neighbourhood. Imagine what is going on all over Syria then. This is one neighbourhood in Homs."

Danny goes on: "This is the life we've got used to... rockets, bullets, killing children dead in the street, body parts... why isn't anyone helping us? Where is the humanity in the world? Where's the ****ing UN? Why isn't anyone doing anything about this?"

And as he points to black smoke billowing into the sky and fierce blasts shake the street he asks: "Why isn't the world helping us. Where is the humanity in the world?"

Danny's video then cuts to show him inside a house he says is in Baba Amr. He points to group of small children huddled together, one bandaged around the head and face and with blood on their t-shirt.

He angrily speaks to the camera again, saying: "Look at these children. Is this is how the Assad regime is supposed to treat our children? Now you see that the Assad regime is killing children.

"What is the UN going to do about this? What is the UN going to do about this? Nothing. They're going to sit and discuss... they want to solve it peacefully, with this murderer."

Tanks have been amassing outside opposition neighbourhoods in Homs as President Assad's forces bombard the city.

It has been claimed up to 10,000 troops gathered on the outskirts and residents are expecting a major push to try to crush the centre of the revolt against the leader's rule.

Assad, bolstered by Russian support, has ignored appeals from world leaders to halt the carnage.

Danny, who has dual nationality, is purportedly a business management student turned activist.

His father is Syrian and his mother is British. He was reportedly wounded during protests in the city of Homs in September last year.