RT News - October 01, 2014 (17:00 MSK)

We bring you a first-hand report from the front line in Iraq where Kurdish fighters are resisting Islamic State forces while in neighbouring Syria, 17 people - including children - are killed in twin explosions. We take a look at what it costs the Pentagon to bomb jihadists in the region - an estimated 10-million dollars a day. A shell hits a school in Donetsk in eastern Ukraine - on what was the first day of the school year. Moscow has condemned the attack as a violation of international law.