This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Jeanette Jalil and in the early hours of Wednesday the 29th of January, these are our main stories.

A US judge temporarily blocks a sweeping White House order to pause federal grants, loans and other financial assistance

that could have put trillions of dollars on hold.

Rwandan-backed rebels are getting closer to taking complete control of Goma in eastern Congo.

The head of the UN's Palestinian Refugee Agency has accused Israel of carrying out a relentless

assault against it ahead of Thursday's ban.

Also in this podcast, we hear how a pioneering computer-controlled brain implant

has transformed the life of a man with Parkinson's disease.

It was instant.

Yeah, just stopped shitting. My name stopped shitting.

My voice was instant. Yeah, just stopped shating. My neck stopped shitting. My voice was better.

It's been a chaotic and confusing start to Donald Trump's plan to pause billions,

possibly even trillions of dollars in US government funding.

Just minutes before the government freeze on federal loans, grants and other assistance was due

to go into effect on Tuesday evening Washington time, it was blocked by a federal judge who's

now delayed it until next week.

Democrats had said the freeze was illegal.

Before the judge's decision, the senior Democrat and Senate minority leader,

Chuck Schumer had this to say. In an instant, Donald Trump has shut off billions, perhaps

trillions of dollars that directly support states, cities, towns, schools, hospitals, small businesses, and most of all American families.

It's a dagger at the heart of the average American family in red states, in blue states,

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