anchor: breaking news, german football association president wolfgang niersbach has resigned from the world cub 2006 slush fund scandal. niersbach said he was taking what he called political responsibility. niersbach has been under pressure after a magazine reported that he used a secret multi-million slush fund to buy if i havea votes to host the 2006 world cup. niersbach denied wrong doing but they invaded the offices. this has been moving across the day. tell us more. reporter: it's not a surprise. the pressure has been building for so long now. he said he did nothing wrong and knew nothing about this and wasn't president at the time of the world cup bid but it's his responsibility. he thought i got to get out of here. anchor: if he goes and now he's gone, is that the end of it? reporter: not at all. there is a further chapter to go in this scandal. i mean no one's fully admitted wrongdoing and no one has said -- it was the former president who said there was a slush fund that was used to buy votes for the 2006 world cup and leaves everything for them. it was a wonderful tournament