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Main events:

• Wikileaks documents reveal the US spied on the French French presidents - Chirac, Sarkozy and Hollande
• Hollande calls an urgent defence council meeting to discuss the claims
• White House denies it has spied on French president
• France says spying unacceptable between allies
• Hollande is due to talk to Obama
• Claims of secret spy nest on roof of US embassy in Paris
• US ambassador summoned by foreign minister

15:27 - Another public statement condemning spying

This time it's the French PM Manuel Valls who has gone public. He told the French parliament on Wednesday that the US "must work to repair relations with France" after the spying claims.

14:04 - France to offer asylum to Snowden and Assange?

As furious French politicians continue to offer up suggestions for how France should best react to the spying scandal, the man known as the "leftist firebrand" Jean-Luc Mélenchon says Paris should offer asylum to two of America's most wanted men.

Mélenchon says France should offer asylum to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, currently holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, and NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, currently holed up somewhere in Russia.

Mélenchon, an MEP from the Parti de Gauche also echoed Marine Le Pen's call for an end to negotiations over the transatlantic free trade treaty (TTIP) between the US and the EU.